We made Nou money back in the 80s..now it's all that matters

EAMONN BANNON glanced over the programme from Dundee United's famous triumph over Barcelona recently - and his eyes almost popped out at what he was reading.

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His old chairman pleading poverty over the cost of a Euro quarterfinal against the La Liga giants at the Nou Camp.

If ever words emphasised the seismic changes in European football in the past four decades - not least the eyewatering TV megabucks now swirling round at elite level - then it was those penned by George Fox ahead of United's 1987 UEFA Cup clash with the Catalan giants.

A last-eight tie where Jim McLean's terrors beat Barca home AND away on their incredible run to the final.

Those kind of results seem like fantasy land for United fans now. But the chance to enter a millionaires’ playground is real even if United are only in the third-tier Conference League.

And that, says Bannon, is why nobody will be turning their nose up at a trip to face Luxembourg minnows Una Strassen this week.

United hold a 1-0 advantage after Zac Safford netted the only goal in the first leg at Tannadice.