While most of planet Earth was praying to the heavens for Apollo 13, the original Battle of Britain produced a match and an atmosphere that was out of this world.
And saw a crash landing for Don Revie’s Leeds United. The champions of Scotland and England met in the second leg of a European Cup semi-final 50 years ago tonight.
The US space crew – later immortalised in a Tom Hanks film – had failed to make a lunar landing after taking off on April 11 and their fate was literally up in the air.
But for 90 minutes at least, the European club record crowd of 135,505 at Hampden Park, and football fans on both sides of the border, were starstruck by Celtic against Leeds. “Some people were talking about the moon, but everyone we knew was more
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