Official Site of Man U · Jun 19, 2022
‘He was like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
The Reds famously had to overcome Real Madrid in the semi-final and while Bill Foulkes stole the headlines in the second leg - scoring our third goal on the night to make it 4-3 on aggregate - Aston claims that Stiles’s “nasty” streak heavily swayed the tie in United’s fixture.
“There were 130,000 people [in the crowd] and Nobby knocked somebody out but nobody saw it except me,” said Aston, who went on to be United's Man of the Match in the final against Benfica.
“There were 130,000 people, and [only] one camera in the middle of the field. Madrid had a corner. It comes over and I can remember the ball bouncing and it was hoofed into the stratosphere.