Europa League Venue: Celtic Park Date: Thursday 1 October Kick-off: 2005 BST Coverage: BBC Sport website (live text), BBC Radio Scotland MW
McGarvey (right) was in the Celtic team that beat Rapid 3-0
Former Celtic striker Frank McGarvey says he will only forgive the 1984 defeat by Rapid Vienna when the Austrians admit that they cheated.
Celtic lost out when a replay was ordered after one of the Rapid players claimed he was hit by a bottle.
"I will only get over it when they tell us the truth," said McGarvey, who says Rudi Weinhofer was not struck at all.
"That's the most hurtful thing to the fans and the players - what they did to get into the quarter-finals."
The two clubs come face to face again on Thursday at Celtic Park in a Europa League Group C tie that has been overshadowed by that previous meeting in the European Cup-Winners' Cup.
Present Rapid coach Peter Pacult, who scored the only goal in the replay at Old Trafford in 1984, showed his irritation that the pre-match publicity had centred on the past.
He urged the Scots to move on and accept what happened in a week when members of the side that eventually lost to Everton in the final repeated their own claims that they did not cheat.
When I heard that Celtic had been drawn against Rapid Vienna, I actually felt sick
Former Celtic striker Frank McGarvey
"They have to say that," said McGarvey. "They have got to say that their player was injured, but we all know he wasn't.
"Nobody has ever seen a scar or a wound on his head and, if they were innocent, they would have shown that to the world.
"I don't think he was hit with anything. That's what enraged the Celtic fans that night."
Celtic had recovered from a 3-1 defeat in Vienna to lead 3-0 in Glasgow and McGarvey says the Austrians resorted to dirty tactics in an attempt to salvage the tie.
"I was just an incredible night," he said. "The passion of the fans spilled on to the park and the behaviour of the Rapid Vienna players, I have watched it again on TV, was atrocious.
"How they got away with it was just unbelievable. At 3-0 down, they were out of the tie and the only way they could get back into it was to do what they did.
"There was an article by the linesman during the week and he said that the game should not have been replayed and that the Rapid Vienna players were badly behaved.
"They were doing they wanted. The goalkeeper came out and did a karate kick on Tommy Burns and one of their players knocked Tommy out with a punch."
McGarvey says he feels "a bit betrayed by Uefa" after European football's governing body ordered the replay, which was played in Manchester, England.
"As far as we are concerned, we were the better team over the two legs and did nothing wrong," he said.
"The Celtic fans threw on a few bottles. Celtic were punished for that and rightly so.
"Rapid Vienna got away with it and what I never understood was that they were fined for their behaviour that night and Celtic were fined for missiles coming on to the park.
"Their fine was then doubled but also there was a replay and they got half the gate. In other words, they were rewarded for their bad behaviour."
McGarvey stressed that it had actually been a good game of football until the controversy and he hoped that Thursday's tie would be of similar quality without the unsavoury incidents.
"I hadn't spoken about it for 25 years, but when I heard that Celtic had been drawn against Rapid Vienna, I actually felt sick," he said.
"There are too many cameras around these days for the the same thing to happen and players are more disciplined.
"I hope the Celtic fans get behind their team with great passion and hopefully that will help the Celtic players as I have been very impressed with the present Rapid Vienna team."
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