HAMPDEN Park was in the news again this week, the Scottish Football Association agreeing to purchase the national stadium from Queen’s Park and in the process deciding not to move to Murrayfield, the home of Scottish rugby, in Edinburgh.
The old Glasgow stadium has witnessed so many memorable matches over the decades: international matches, domestic cup finals, and European or Champions’ League finals.
That latter category has of course included Real Madrid’s fabled 7-3 defeat of Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960, and Real’s 2-1 defeat of Leverkusen in 2002, in which Zinédine Zidane got the winner with a spectacular volley, arguably one of the finest goals ever scored in any final of the competition.
Sandwiched between these two games was the 1976 final between Bayern Munich and St-Étienne.
Glasgow businessman Lord Willie Haughey, who helped bankroll the SFA’s purchase of Hampden, said this week that those 1976 and 2002 finals were two of his most abiding memories of the ground, though he said of the former that “it was a boring game which St Etienne edged and Bayern Munich stole it by one goal.”
Bayern won the trophy for the third successive year with a goal by Franz Roth,
The photograph shows triumphant Bayern players running a post-match lap of honour, among them Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Georg Schwarzenbeck and Gerd Müller.
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