The wait is over:
Silverware!
We got our hands round a European trophy on Thursday evening, thanks to this man:
Cristiano Lucarelli (pictured) scored the only goal as Livorno beat Auxerre in the final UEFA Cup Group A tie.
That defeat was enough to send the French side out of the competition,
And with (deep breath) Odense, Twente Enschede, Grasshoppers Zurich, SV Ried, Marseille, NK Maribor, Kayserispor, Ethnikos Achnas and Hertha Berlin also failing to make it through to the last 32, that leaves only one club remaining to have qualified from the Intertoto Cup:
Newcastle United
official website (before Thursday's games) here
There is not yet an official UEFA Intertoto Cup Winner 2006. The best performing team(s) of those 11 will be named UIC Winner 2006 and will receive the usual UEFA Intertoto Cup trophy.
Other sources subsequently caught up.....
From the BBC, Saturday:
Newcastle will collect their first trophy in 37 years when they are awarded the 2006 Intertoto Cup.
Glenn Roeder's side are the winners as they are the last surviving Intertoto entrants in the Uefa Cup.
"We will be very happy to receive it," said Roeder. "It would be disrespectful to consider it a lesser tournament, as some managers do."
Uefa has revealed there is likely to be a presentation before Newcastle's next Uefa Cup home tie on 22 February.
The trophy is Newcastle's first since the Fairs Cup in 1969.
The Magpies won a two-legged tie against Lillestrom in July to go through to the qualifying stages of the Uefa Cup.
Roeder added: "This is a little bit of a reward for the boys who had to come back on 26 June to play in the competition."
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