IN 1980-81, Dinamo Tbilisi put on a scintillating display when they met West Ham United at Upton Park in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup. They won emphatically by playing a brand of fast, attacking football that stunned the London crowd. “Those Russians, bloody marvellous football,” said one Hammers fan as he left the stadium. “I’ve not seen football like that since we had Moore, Hurst and Peters at the club.” Russians? The old USSR tarnished everyone with the same brush. These were Georgians elegantly scything their way through the West Ham defence. To some, Georgia was a southern state in the US, not a eastern European country absorbed by the Kremlin. But at the time, it was part of the Soviet Union and therefore considered…