©JPIMedia Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Manager Otto Rehhagel said the games against Rovers were: “…the toughest we endured during the competition.”. However, the phrase is repeated far too often for my liking and has become a little tiresome now. Each just shakes her head when I tune into Rovers Abroad. What happened to the team that played against Munich? McGinn's performances for Hibs earned him a call-up to the international squad while the club was still in the second tier. He left Raith in 1997 to move to Hull City, playing on loan at Motherwell during his spell there. "The play has been so frantic and committed that composure has been crowded out. He led the ‘Reclaim The Rovers’ campaign that helped to save the club in 2005 after previous owners Colin McGowan and Alex Short threatened to sell the club’s stadium, Stark’s Park. Therefore apart from the Main Stand which runs only a third of the way along the side of the pitch, the vast majority of fans see the game from behind the goals. The sheer euphoria of the fact that Raith were going to Hampden Park, not to play Queens Park, but to play in a Scottish Cup Semi Final was just incredible. Here is a selection of some of the great players and managers to make their name at the club, or who went on to go to the very top of their profession after getting their first chance at Stark’s Park: Football grounds throughout the UK have changed almost beyond recognition over the last twenty years and Starks Park has been no different. Early results were poor however, and he chose to leave the club at the end of the season for personal reasons. A 2-2 draw with local rivals Dunfermline last year at East End Park was probably the best game I have ever watched. The picture above details an iconic moment in Scottish football, when the unknown Scottish club Raith Rovers were playing in the 1995/96 UEFA Cup against Bayern Munich, and had the audacity to be leading the German superstars 1-0 at half-time in the Olympiastadion. Raith Rovers, Raith was the name of an area that stretched from Lochgelly to Kirkcaldy Albion Rovers, a combination of names from two local teams. The Trinidadian left the club for Hibs in 1997 before being sold to Port Vale in January 1999. Walker’s equalising goal had kept Raith top of the league and the fans were sure to let the quickly escaping home support know this. Dunfermline ‘keeper Chris Smith inexplicably dropped a ball at the feet of Iain Williamson and the Raith winger duly passed it into the back of the net. I have my dad to “thank” for being a Raith fan. Though there were a few other team who incorporated the town name, such as Kirkcaldy Wanderers, Raith were the most successful of the local teams. Raith Rovers were founded in 1883 and play in the town of Kirkcaldy. He then became the Head of Youth at Ross County in 2007 until 2011, when he became manager of Highland League team Wick Academy. Coyle was at the tail-end of his career by the time the game came around and left the club at the end of the season to move to Ayr Utd.