The day Dundee United won the Scottish Premier League

Hard to believe it's 30 years since Dundee United won the Scottish Championship for the first and only time in the club's history.

The title was won in the most extraordinary circumstances on May 14, 1983, and I was in a capacity crowd of 29,206 at Dens Park, home of United's city rivals, to see them do it.

I was living and working in London so I had to catch a train to Edinburgh the previous day and continue the journey to Dundee on the morning of the match.

It was the last day of the season and three teams - United, Aberdeen and Celtic - could all win the league if results went their way.

The outcome however was in United's hands. Beat Dundee and the title was theirs.

The pressure was immense but United were two up after eight minutes. Then Dundee scored and it was 2-1 at half-time.

The second half seemed to go on forever. Aberdeen were winning and news filtered through that Celtic, two down against Rangers at half-time, had come back and were winning 4-2.

Thousands were watching the game and listening to their pocket radios. The final whistle couldn't come soon enough but for those last few minutes time seemed to stand still.

I'll never forget it, or the celebrations after the game.

Former player Paul Sturrock recalls Dundee United’s title triumph in today's Scotland on Sunday. It's a great read:

The following season - inconceivable now - United reached the semi-final of the European Cup where they lost, 3-2 on aggregate, to Roma.

In 1987 the club went one better and reached the final of the UEFA Cup, defeating Barcelona home and away in the quarter-finals.

The magnitude of this feat can be judged by the fact that it was another 26 years before Barcelona were to once again lose both legs of a European tie (to Bayern Munich, in 2013, in case you're wondering).