Days of glory

Our second visit to a football stadium. The Allianz Arena in Munich. Great stadium and tour - marvellous museum even for a non football fan like me. Best bit was the section on Bayern in the 1980s as you can see by this computer screen.
In 1982-83, Aberdeen had qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup by winning the Scottish Cup. Aberdeen were entered in the preliminary round against FC Sion of Switzerland. The first leg at Pittodrie ended in a 7-0 victory for Aberdeen over the Swiss side. This was Aberdeen's second biggest margin of victory in European competition, and in the second leg Aberdeen won 4-1 in Switzerland to complete an 11-1 aggregate win. This set up a tie in the first round against Dinamo Tirana from Albania. The first leg was close, with John Hewitt scoring the only goal of the game, and what turned out to be the only goal of the tie, as Aberdeen's first trip to Albania ended in a 0-0 draw. That was enough to see Aberdeen through to the next round, with a 1-0 aggregate victory. In the second round, Polish club Lech Poznan were drawn to play Aberdeen. In the first leg in Scotland, Aberdeen won 2-0. In the return leg in Poland, Aberdeen ground out a 1-0 victory. The aggregate score-line was 3-0 and this had earned Aberdeen a passage to the quarter-finals of Europe for the very first time in the club's history.
The draw for the quarter finals paired Aberdeen with West Germany's Bayern Munich. In the first leg, the game finished 0-0, with Aberdeen putting in a good defensive display. In the second leg at Pittodrie, Bayern Munich twice took the lead, but Aberdeen won the game 3-2, in a game described as "Pittodrie's greatest night". apparently the manager Alex Ferguson told them they could win the game so according to Doug Rougvie one of the players - they believed him and did it! If only it was that easy for them now!