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"Jacques Georges, the Uefa president at the time, and Hans Bangerter, his general secretary, were threatened with imprisonment but eventually given conditional discharges. Albert Roosens, the former secretary-general of the Belgian Football Union (BFU), was given a six-month suspended prison...

The UEFA view at the time as reported by the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/fromthearchive/story/0,,1496054,00.html Mr Jacques Georges, the UEFA president, said: 'The committee will have to judge and they must be decisive. This is not a matter of football but humanity. We cannot tolerate...

Mrs Thatcher told the FA to remove clubs from Europe before any ban by UEFA was discussed. Obviously a UEFA ban might have happened anyway but the length and scope of the ban might have been different if it wasn't for the pre-emptive move by the FA under govt pressure...