Wednesday’s Champions League game in Spain gives City a chance to make up for what they perceive to be refereeing injustices in the 1997-98 Uefa Cup tie

Leicester City face Atlético Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday but it is not the first time the clubs have met in European competition. Just like in 1961‑62’s Cup Winners’ Cup and the Uefa Cup 46 years later, City go into the tie as underdogs but may fancy their chances of gaining revenge this time.

1961-62 Cup Winners’ Cup second round

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First leg Leicester 1-1 Atlético; second leg Atlético 2-0 Leicester. The Spanish club won 3-1 on aggregate.

Richie Norman (defender) We didn’t know much about the Cup Winners’ Cup – it was quite a new competition. We got into it because we were in the final against Spurs: they won the Double, but we didn’t realise Spurs couldn’t accommodate both. Then we were pleasantly surprised we were in it.

Howard Riley (winger) We didn’t really have any information about Atlético at all, not like you get these days. We just went out and played our own game. We scored a goal that was disallowed quite early on.

RN I can see it now. Our centre-forward, Ken Keyworth, broke clear over the halfway line and went straight for goal but just as he kicked the ball – he lobbed it over the keeper – he was heavily tackled by their centre-half, but the referee gave a free-kick to Leicester. He should have let it go.

HR We scored shortly afterwards. I was playing on the wing, and I went past the full-back, squared it for Keyworth and he tapped it in. The main thing I remember was the room we had – we had a lot of time and space to play in, and I don’t think we made the most of that. I think I gave this full-back a bit of a hard time, and they brought their winger back so they had two marking me at the end.

RN Late-on their centre-forward, Jorge Mendonça, scored a terrific shot from about 25 yards – I was standing right next to him and it flew in right in the top corner. That made it a 1-1 draw.

HR We should really have won the game comfortably. We didn’t really make the most of our chances. We should have taken ours and gone to the away game with a substantial lead. We had a few players out.

RN If I remember rightly we had a few injuries before the game, and had to change a few players. When we went over there for the second leg, it was a great experience because we went to see Real Madrid train – with Puskas, Santamaría and Di Stefano. But we lost the game 2-0.

HR One of them was a penalty, but it wasn’t too bad a performance. I don’t remember getting outplayed anyway. Some games stand out in your career – and this was one of them because eventually they went on to win it.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Leicester City’s squad line up before the first round of the 1961-62 Cup Winners’ Cup tie at Atlético Madrid. From left to right (back row): Len Chalmers, Gordon Wills, Colin Appleton, Ian King, John Mitten, Graham Cross, Gordon Banks, Ken Keyworth, Richie Norman; (front) Howard Riley, Ian White, Frank McLintock, Hugh McIlmoyle. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images

1997-98 Uefa Cup, first round

First leg Atlético 1-1 Leicester; second leg Leicester 0-2 Atlético. The Spanish club won 3-1 on aggregate.

Ian Marshall (striker) We were confident before the game. We knew if we all played well we had a good chance of winning. The atmosphere was amazing. I was just soaking it all in because I was so excited. It was electrifying.

Julian Watts (defender) Their defenders perhaps weren’t used to the sort of physicality Ian provided up top, and he got our goal.

IM It was Steve Guppy who crossed it, and Steve Walsh at the back post headed it down. It bounced, I kicked it into the ground, and it went in. I don’t miss from five yards out.

I think we would’ve won if I had stayed on, but one of their centre-halves did a number on me. I’ve got a three or four inch scar down the back of my calf, which needed about eight stitches, so I had to go off. I just felt in the zone. But they scored two late goals and we lost 2-1.

JW Before the second leg I’d been on loan at Crewe. I played Tranmere on the Saturday, then on the Tuesday it was Atlético. The first-team coach said to the kitman: “Have you got Jules’s kit?” It was at the training ground, so he said: “Well you’d best go get it, because he’s starting.” I think that was the first I knew I was playing.

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I remember [Atlético’s] Kiko didn’t shout for the ball – he whistled. I’ve never come across that before or since. Very good player and a handful on the night, but strange. It was constant throughout the game, in short, sharp blasts.

IM We got on top again and I felt that if everything had gone according to plan we’d have pushed on, but the gods weren’t with us. Garry Parker got sent off ridiculously (a second yellow card for taking a free-kick too early).

JW It was a real hammer blow because we felt we were on top. It felt so unfair and such an injustice – if Parker had stayed on the pitch we all felt we would’ve gone on and won it, but Juninho and Kiko scored late on.

IM Muzzy Izzet went down three or four times for penalties and at least two of them were stonewall penalties, but nothing was given. We were very, very hard done to: in both legs there were decisions that went to them and ones that didn’t go to us that were a bit questionable. Does it leave a bitter taste? Not after 20 years, but you making me relive it ... the bile is coming back.