On the 30th anniversary of Norwich City's victory over footballing giants Bayern Munich, City fan Judy Trivett shares her memories of stewarding a club coach that made the long, but wholly worthwhile trip to Munich.
"There was never a question about whether we were going to go or not," says Judy, a life-long City fan who made the journey with her late husband Mike to see Norwich City defeat Bayern Munich 2-1 in the Olympiastadion, becoming the first British team to do so.
"I'd helped to organise the coaches leading up to it, of which there were eight or nine in our convoy. We did 48 hours on the coach there and back, no hotel stops or anything."
Indeed, the official coach schedule from 1993 shows an evening departure from Carrow Road on Monday, October 18, with an immediate return after the expected conclusion of the game on Tuesday.
"It was something of an epic trip because the previous week there'd been a riot in Europe with English football fans, so the German police were taking no trouble.
"The first part of the journey was great but as soon as we crossed the German border everything changed. At every service station there were riot police lined up and when we pulled in we were only allowed to go to the toilet one at a time.
"I remember one particular stop where the German police were quite bemused to find a lot of Norwich City fans playing football.
"When we finally got to Munich we had a wonderful time enjoying ourselves in the Olympic park, just people sitting around having drinks. It was a lovely atmosphere."
Despite the prevailing expectation that the German side would have far too much for the Canaries, Judy had belief in Mike Walker's men:
"It was all 'little Norwich going to the massive giants of Bayern Munich' and 'hopefully Norwich can still be in the game when they come back'.
"I'd seen quite a bit of Munich on the television that season and I was absolutely convinced we could beat them, and I'm never that optimistic!
"Most people thought we were never going to do anything there but I just thought 'I'm certain we can'.
"In fact, we were 2-0 up and to be honest we should have got a third!"
The Canaries found themselves two ahead after 30 minutes, thanks to the iconic goals from Jeremy Goss and Mark Bowen, before Christian Nerlinger replied for Bayern Munich before half-time.
"The celebrations when Jeremy Goss scored were quite manic and then of course we got the second one, which tends to be forgotten a bit, the Mark Bowen header.
"I remember the scoreboard flashed up Culverhouse before eventually changing it to Bowen.
"When they pulled one back we were all convinced that their forward had pushed Spencer Prior but years later we had the chance to ask Spencer and he said that wasn't the case.
Despite her early optimism, Judy was stunned by the first half performance:
"I think I just sat still in my seat at half-time taking it all in.
"The second half, I just wanted the whistle to blow as soon as possible. I found myself wishing for a third, but then it was just 'blow the whistle and we've got a fantastic victory here'.
"Bryan Gunn made a very, very good save from (Adolfo) Valencia.
"It was when (Lothar) Matthäus started moving forwards that we were thinking things were going to get a bit tougher for us.
Judy, now a member of the Community Sports Foundation's Extra Time programme, describes the sights and sounds of the Olympiastadion on that famous night, as City held on for an improbable 2-1 win.
"I remember the lights and the music system - I remember at the time they always had the can-can played after they scored and I was half hoping they might give it a blast when we scored. No such luck.
"There wasn't a massive crowd because I think they thought they were going to walk it against a little club that's never been in Europe before, but we had some really decent players.
"They played Always Look on the Bright Side of Life at the full-time whistle. The players all came over at the end of the game, I remember Gunny celebrating and Mike Walker coming over to see us.
"After the celebrations I was walking back talking to the German supporters who were very friendly. I think they were still sure of turning things around in the second leg.
"On the journey back we stopped at a service station and a motorbike pulled up, which belonged to a German police officer in a long, white leather coat. He came across as if we'd done something wrong before enquiring 'do you have any badges?'. He just wanted some Norwich City memorabilia!"
"On the coach we talked of what might happen on the return leg, but we were so exhausted that most of us tried just to sleep."
The coaches returned to Norwich late on the Wednesday. Its occupants were weary but nobody on board would regret the 48 hours spent traveling to and from such a famous result in their club's history.