It was in the era when English clubs absolutely dominated the continent and Aston Villa’s triumph represented the sixth time in a row that an English club won the European Cup.
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Peter Withe scored the game’s only goal on 67 minutes as Tony Barton’s team ran out narrow winners.
However, the star of the show was a youthful Nigel Spink in the Villa goal.
An injury to Jimmy Rimmer on 10 minutes brought Spink on for just his second professional appearance and he produced a virtuoso display to keep Bayern out and record a clean sheet in Rotterdam.
Other memorable events on this day…
1972: Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in five rounds for the heavyweight boxing title.
1999: Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid added a monstrous 318 for the second wicket in Taunton as India sounded the death knell for Sri Lanka’s defence of the World Cup.
2013: Matteo Manessero wins the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
2013: A 32-ball 60 from Kieron Pollard and an aggressive showing on the field helps Mumbai Indians clinch their first IPL title.
