Source: Daily_Mail
Jeff Powell's top European Cup finals: No 7 - Liverpool 3 Moenchengladbach 1
Bob Paisley returned to the Eternal City he had entered in a tank in World War II, this time at the helm of the mighty red machine built by Bill Shankly and refined by himself into the team about to launch English football's longest period of European domination.
The first of seven triumphs in eight seasons (Liverpool 4, Nottingham Forest 2, Aston Villa 1) was secured by the unlikely goalscoring lads, Tommy Smith and Phil Neal.
They brought home the Holy Grail after Terry McDermott's opener had been cancelled out by little Allan Simonsen, the reigning European Footballer of the Year.
But it was another mighty mouse of a player, one as tiny as Denmark's Simonsen, to whom this hot night in Rome belonged.
Kevin Keegan's farewell performance for Liverpool was the tour de force which toppled Moenchengladbach.
