1977 Dynamo Dresden (European Cup 2nd round 2nd leg) Rudolf Harbig Stadium 1-2
Steve Heighway 67'
Att 33,000
Still have nightmares about this one. I was 13 and still in school. It was an afternoon kick-off so I decided to sneak a little old transistor radio into class so I could keep up to date with the game. I had it in an old Adidas holdall that I could keep on the lab top and reach into every now and again.
Only problem was we had double Chemistry and the teacher was a fucking psychopath, he should never have been allowed around kids never mind teaching them!
All was going well (not on the pitch obviously) until I saw him get up from his seat and start walking towards where I was sat. He hadn't heard the radio, just fancied stretching his legs I think but I panicked and instead of turning the radio off I turned the fucking volume up loud enough to be heard in the next room.
He went ballistic. Big, mad red face, veins popping on his forehead, I'm convinced he'd have taken a Bunsen burner to me if he thought he'd get away with it. In the end I got lines, detention, put on report, my mum and dad had to go up to the school...the whole works. Didn't even get to hear Heighway's goal.
On the subject of the first leg, it was our first game after winning the EC for the first time. I was in the Anny Rd that night and when we went off at half-time 3-0 up the Kop was an amazing sight, not sure I ever saw it better. When Dresden scored in the 2nd half you could have heard a pin drop, East Germany was still Communist in those days and they didn't have much away support in Europe!