Jock Stein rose from the bench and limped towards the corner flag, with a few minutes still remaining in the 1967 European Cup Final in Lisbon, he looked like a man supremely confident enough to allow his side to click on to auto-pilot.For the Inter Milan players now looked traumatised, even though they were only 2-1 down.
And from what I could see from my stance, their manager Helenio Herrera was slumped on his bench in an admission of defeat that made him look as if he were suffering from piles.Yet that scene was deceptive.
For the following morning Stein admitted the tension had got to him. Nerves had prompted that casual stroll.And in a sense that admission of a chink in his armour gave us a hint of what I was to discover myself.
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