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Five years ago...

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Mistadobalina

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...to the day since we lifted the European cup.

I cant quite believe how time has flown since then! Its still as fresh in my memory as if it were yesterday.

There has been hard times and good times since that day, but nothing will ever top it for that feeling of utter devastation followed by that glimmer of hope, then the sheer elation which was to follow.

I wasn't lucky enough to get to Istanbul but I made it over to Liverpool, and boy was I glad I did. The celebrations in the streets afterwards were fantastic, cars ground to a halt and people were high fiving strangers in the street...and then getting to see the cup brought home at st Georges hall was just something else.

It was the best time of my life as a Liverpool supporter and as it turned out I met my now wife that day too, for an added personal bonus!

Heres hoping the good times return next season. But I'm so proud, and lets not forget, that it was our team that staged the greatest comeback in the history of sport. Who knows whats around the corner.
 
It was simply amazing.

I thought we'd been spoilt by having the privilege to witness some of the games that got us to Istanbul, but then to have that final turn out like it did was just the icing on the cake.

We'll have better teams in the future and of course we'll win more trophies, but nothing will ever compare to that night for me.
 
When i finally got home from the pub i watched the game time and time again on Sky trying to convince myself i wasn't dreaming.
 
An amazing night. I very nearly left my mates house at half time to go home and sulk through the second half.
I'm very glad I didn't. I was also delighted to make it over for the Juve game at Anfield. I was right behind Luis Garcia when he hit that ball. The whole crowd around me shouted goal as soon as it left his boot. An amazing goal and an amazing night.

When you think of the players that Juve team had on show that night...

Buffon, Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Thuram, Nedved, Camoranesi, Zlatan, Del Piero, Trezeguet.

Amazing that we beat them with Carson & Le Tallec in the side.
 
Benitez worked miracles that season, and I'll always respect him for it. It's just a shame he's completel incapable of building a squad.
 
I thought I'd seen everything when we won the Treble in that tremendous game against Alaves. How wrong can you be? I get nervous when I watch the Istanbul DVD even now. Nothing will ever top that incredible night.
 
At halftime I was deflated but still held out some hope that we could turn the tie on its head by some miracle. Was made it even more implausible is that my Scum mates kept mentioning that its only half time. They were convinced that we could go all the way. That was shocking in itself and the rest as the say is history!
 
I missed our first goal because I was throwing things around my room.
 
I haven't watched the game in a long time now but I still get chills seeing the highlights. The anniversary occurred to me this morning and I really want to watch the match again.
 
I've never been happier than that night. I really wish I could watch that again not knowing the outcome, nothing will ever top that elation for me.

Greatest game ever, and greatest moment of my life to this day.
 
It is one of them moments in your life you wish you could bottle and re-live again and again.
5 years ago. Wow. We were nearly 3-0 down now.
 
I was watching the game in walkabout and when there 3rd goal was scored in frustration i threw my bottle on the floor then a few more did the same, then the bouncers slung them out as a i backed into the crowd but that was the best night of my life. as someone said above i watched Sky sports time and time again when i got back from the pub. what a hangover i had..
 
I may be the only one, but I've never watched the game since. I enjoy looking back on it with a little bit of haze in the memory, I don't need to know who made fuck ups during the game.
 
Jean knows to expect to find me with a wicked hangover if she gets up and sees that DVD out in the morning.
 
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=40369.msg1109381#msg1109381 date=1274905191]
I may be the only one, but I've never watched the game since. I enjoy looking back on it with a little bit of haze in the memory, I don't need to know who made fuck ups during the game.
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Ditto.

I never rewatch any of our games to be honest.
 
[quote author=keniget link=topic=40369.msg1109392#msg1109392 date=1274906986]
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=40369.msg1109381#msg1109381 date=1274905191]
I may be the only one, but I've never watched the game since. I enjoy looking back on it with a little bit of haze in the memory, I don't need to know who made fuck ups during the game.
[/quote]

Ditto.

I never rewatch any of our games to be honest.
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Seriously? That surprises me.

I've watched the Istanbul game at least 20 times.
 
Me and my mate got bored of the European cup final and stuck on the road to Istanbul instead on saturday.

Watched it loads- and I often review games.
 
I STILL start to tear up when I see Sheva bearing down on to that cross in the last minute of stoppage time, becuase it's NOT POSSIBLE that he missed from there. Once, never mind twice!

I actually watch the replay of the game, expecting to lose 3-4 with the last touch of the ball.

Actually, 3 of the most horrendous, "he'll never miss that again if he gets 1,000 chances from there" misses happened in our glorious run that year... Sheva, obviously. But Gudjonsen's almost killed me (I was on the floor in the boozer, on my knees, refusing to get up, 'cos I thought they were taking the piss outta me, that he'd missed) and Ibra missed sitter from 6 yards in Turin as well.

It truly was meant to be.
 
I was stuck in a small little village in Switzerland on work training.
Luckily there was a pub near the hotel that was showing the match. I don't think the locals knew what to make of a group of drunken Irish football supporters in their pub.

I did say to my mate at half time that one goal could make a difference and at least make the second half interesting. I guess I was right. By the time the third goal went in, my mate had to reassure the barman (who was about to chuck me out) that I would calm down after I has spent the previous thirty seconds shouting very loudly and banging my fists on a metal grating that made a satisfactorily loud noise.

At the end of the penalties. one of the other lads, also a big Liverpool fan, did a couple of laps of the pub bare chested, waving a Liverpool t shirt above his head, only stopping briefly to give me a bear hug that lifted me off my feet.

The poor Swiss.

My one regret from the night is that I didn't get to share it with my lad. I went outside and rang him straight after the penalties and he was absolutely speechless. It was the greatest footballing night of both our lives, and there may not be many more to come close to it in the future, so it is a pity that we didn't share the big one.
 
My only regret about it all is that I missed the incredible sight of the players rushing up to The Dude, with Carra peeling away to run to the fans and Lord Frodsham on his knees yards behind it all, just overcome with the whole thing. Obv.I've seen and enjoyed all that since, but I missed it at the time because I was doing my own rushing about, all around the house howling like a wolf, then phoning my sister and doing more of the same. ;D
 
[quote author=Avmenon link=topic=40369.msg1109825#msg1109825 date=1275037754]
Im never watching that DVD again.

It'll only remind me whats happened since.
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We're not safe from the Rafa haters in a nostalgic thread. Is no place sacred?
 
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