If Newcastle United's fine start to the current season has fans dreaming of a return to European competition after an absence of a decade, our film footage recalls the the sudden culmination of the club's short-lived continental campaign 45 years ago.
It was November 2, 1977, and the Magpies were hosting French Ligue 1 side Bastia in the the second round, second leg of that season's UEFA Cup. It was a match which would end in defeat but still be remembered years later for the stellar performance of once of the visiting players, Dutch star Johnny Rep.
United had eased through the first round of the competition, disposing of Irish part-timers Bohemians over two legs, before going 2-1 down to a late goal away at Bastia whose home was the beautiful Mediterranean island of Corsica, the one-time birthplace of Napoleon.
