Aston Villa face Bayern Munich, 42 years after beating the German giants to win the European Cup.
The 23-year-old goalkeeper had played just once for Aston Villa - more than two years previously - and had no expectation to feature in the biggest game in the club's history.
"Psychology didn't go that deep back then, it was more that's what I fancied. I wasn't thinking 'Oh yeah, that will relax me', because I wasn't nervous. I didn't think I'd get on so there were no nerves to be had." Spink, who went on to make 468 appearances for Villa, said: "I didn't realise he was six yards out but I did know, because that was the goal we warmed up in, it had a little dip of two to three inches where the grass had been worn away.
"So we get a taxi to near his house, I walked down his drive and I put a little note on it saying: 'Thank you for everything.'"Swain did not hear back, although saw Saunders a few times in the future, but the pressing issue became that night in Rotterdam. "They produced a couple of scares but I vividly remember one moment down our left. They managed to get a cross in and, because I was retreating back towards our goal, I ended up just outside the six-yard box.
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