The Saturday Interview: Willie Miller: Miller Won't Lay Out Red Carpet for Bayern
The Scotsman › February 09, 2008
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THE evocative nature of football, its seemingly bottomless capacity for fond remembrances, will generate a swirl of nostalgia around Pittodrie on Thursday, when Bayern Munich arrive to play Aberdeen in the last-32 round of the Uefa Cup.
It is a nicely symmetrical 25 years since the last, famous, occasion on which the clubs collided. During those two-and-a-half decades, the gross commercialisation of the game has created an irreversible estrangement between them, the great German side remaining members of the European aristocracy, the team from the north-east of Scotland, by comparison, condemned to serfdom.See the full content of this document
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The Saturday Interview: Willie Miller: Miller Won't Lay Out Red Carpet for Bayern
None of this, however, can interfere with the recollections of those who witnessed Aberdeen's extraordinary 3-2 victory in the quarter-final of the 1983 Cup Winners Cup, eliminating a Bayern team replete with superstars on their way to beating Real Madrid in the final in Gothenburg.
Nowhere will the sense of remembered joy be more heightened than in the office of the man at the very heart of that extrao...See the full content of this document
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