Ahead of a fixture that has become so heavily ingrained in the history of the club, Standard Sport takes a look back on the day when Spurs clinched glory under the floodlights of White Hart Lane.

“It’s a night for strong nerves,” said the late commentator, Brian Moore, in the lead up to kick-off in N17 on 23rd May 1984. How he was right.

Having drawn 1-1 at the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium in Brussels 17 days before, Tottenham had the chance to win the Uefa Cup in front of their home fans.

But Tottenham are renowned for making life difficult for themselves at times, and the scenario that evening was no different.

The team was depleted by injury and suspension going into the second leg, with youth players filling in with the likes of Glenn Hoddle out injured and Ossie Ardiles struggling for fitness, while captain Steve Perryman had picked up a costly booking in the first leg to miss the return game.

TOTTENHAM'S 1984 UEFA CUP WINNERS Starting XI: Parks; Thomas, Roberts (c), Miller, Hughton; Stevens, Mabbutt, Hazard, Galvin; Falco, Archibald Substitutes: Ardiles, Crooks, Bowen, Dick, Clemence Manager: Keith Burkinshaw

For manager Keith Burkinshaw it was an opportunity to sign-off in style. The Yorkshireman had announced he would leave his post after the game, and stand-in skipper Graham Roberts was in no doubt what the players’ motivation lay ahead of the match.

“We wanted to win it for our gaffer,” reflected Roberts last summer, when interviewed by Spurs TV for the 30th anniversary of the Final. “Keith never really told us until that week that he was leaving the club.”

Interactive picture: Tottenham's 1984 UEFA Cup winning side

They had just finished 8th in the first division – their lowest placing come May in three seasons – and playing on home soil, in their manager’s final match, all the pieces were there for a fairy-tale finale to Tottenham’s campaign.

The first 45 minutes would pass without a goal, as would the opening exchanges of the second, before the Burkinshaw's side fell behind.

Alexandre Czerniatynski was put through on goal and fired Anderlecht ahead on the hour mark with lofted effort over 21-year-old Tony Parks to inject tension into the 46,000-strong crowd.

With 15 minutes to go Burkinshaw threw on a half-fit Ardiles in hope of winning the match in normal time. Spurs soon began to apply pressure of their own.

Steve Archibald would be denied in the final 10 minutes by a diving save from Jacky Munaron, before the crossbar kept out an Ardiles’ effort from close range. Time looked to be running out on Spurs.

But, with Anderlecht unable to clear their lines, a lofted ball from Micky Hazard found its way to Roberts, and the captain controlled before coolly slotting home the equaliser with just six minutes of normal time remaining.

Ardiles would have to somehow soldier on through extra-time.

Neither side would trouble the scoreboard during extra time and, with the blow of the referee’s whistle, penalties would follow. As Tottenham players collapsed to the ground with exhaustion, attention turned to Parks.

The, then, 21-year-old would receive some last minute advice from veteran goalkeeper Ray Clemence – a winner of three European Cups, two Uefa Cups and Uefa Super Cup with Liverpool – before the referee Volker Roth called the teams back for penalties.

Roberts fired the first home, straight into the top-left corner, then Parks denied Martin Olsen from the spot. Goals from Mark Falco, Gary Stevens and Archibald would see the Belgians respond with goals of their own.

Right-back Danny Thomas had the chance to win the Cup, but his effort would be tipped wide by Munaron. In the modern day, you would call it classic Spurs.

Up stepped Arnor Gudjohnsen – the father of the now former Spurs and Chelsea forward, Eidur – with the chance to bring Anderlecht level. While consoling chants of ‘there’s only one Danny Thomas’ rung round the Lane, the Iceland international stepped up and fired left. Parks leapt, and tipped the ball round the post with a double-handed save.

Spurs had dared, and Spurs had done.

Speaking to ITV after the game, Burkinshaw reflected back on his time at the club.

“It’s another of those games you look back on and you say ‘how lucky I have been to part of it’. To be the manager of three cup-winning teams here… I’m so lucky it’s untrue.”

“You look round and you say ‘well, it’s not going to be any more.’ You’ve got to look ahead and try not to be too downcast.”

“There’s a certain amount of regrets but there are some times in your career when you say ‘well, perhaps that’s the time to go’”.

He would go on to win the Portuguese SuperCup with Sporting Lisbon three years later, but that would be the last of the honours for a man who brought three cups to the Lane in his eight-year tenure.

Tottenham have not competed in another European final since, and added only three trophies to their cabinet in the 31 years that have followed.

It’s high time they did again.