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Swindon Town Football Club. A Swindon Town Anglo-Italian Cup winner's medal, 1970, 18 ct gold, the obverse engraved with the trophy flanked by enamel Union and Italian flags, the verso engraved "I Torneo Anglo-Italiano Anglo-Italian Competition 1970, Esso Petroleum Co.", hallmarked 750, 31.5 grams, 38 mm diameter, contained in original fitted box, cushion stamped 'Faraone, Milano'. Very rare Swindon Town winner's medal from the inaugural Anglo-Italian Cup competition of 1970. The Anglo-Italian Cup was a European competition between English and Italian clubs, and came about as the winners of the Football League Cup, from 1967 received a place in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, but UEFA rules excluded Third Division winners of the League Cup, i.e. Swindon Town in 1969. As a way of compensating League Cup winners Swindon's exclusion from the Fairs Cup, the Anglo-Italian Cup was inaugurated the following year, with six English and six Italian clubs in the competition, with the teams with the highest points from each country contesting the final, which was played on 28 May 1970 in Naples between Napoli and Swindon. Swindon were winning 2-0 and when Arthur Horsfield scored the third goal for Swindon in the 63rd minute, disgruntled home fans began throwing rocks and bottles onto the pitch, and following two pitch invasions, the referee abandoned the game in the 79th minute, when Swindon were awarded the trophy.