The Dee made headlines after shock Dens victory

the time 12 minutes were on the clock Bobby Wishart and Hugh Robertson had added two more.

As the onslaught continued, by the break Alan Gilzean and Gordon Smith, who’d played in the competition with Hibs six years earlier, made it 5-0.

“Gillie” would complete his hat-trick and Penman got on the score sheet before a deflection off Alex Hamilton gave Cologne the only consolation of their nightmare.

The 8-1 victory made headlines throughout Europe, though it was probably best summarised by former player and local football writing legend Tommy Gallacher who described the display as “a magnificent brand of cultured precision football.”

There are, of course, two sides to every story and the version told in Germany was somewhat different.

Cologne were furious over an Alan Cousin challenge in just two minutes that left their goalkeeper, Fritz Ewert, concussed.

In the days before subs, it saw them reduced to 10 men when he failed to appear for the second half.

Dundee and Cousin, known for his honesty, always maintained the collision was accidental, but it didn’t stop the Germans swearing revenge for the second leg.

Accordingly Slater was targeted and it led to one of the more bizarre incidents in Dundee’s European history, when he did suffer a head knock during the first half.

The hardy Slater was determined to play on but home officials tried to force him into an ambulance.

It was a battle they were never going to win and once he had his wounds tended, the goalie returned to the pitch.

The German keeper receives attention after being injured.