the team everyone thought would be there against the team no one thought would be there

the fairytale is complete

liverpool 2-0 milan

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has targeted becoming the most successful manager in the club's history.

Benitez hopes the first of his trophies will come with a win over AC Milan in the Champions League final on 25 May.

"I was at Extremadura, Tenerife and Valencia and we had the best statistics in the history of each club," he said.

"I have done it at three clubs. Now I will try and do the same here. It will be very, very difficult I know because the history of this club is so big."

Benitez, 44, has set himself a major task considering the exploits of the club's former managers in Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan, who made Liverpool into one of the most successful teams ever both domestically and in Europe.

"I have 20 years of my life as a manager yet and I have four more years left on my contract here and that is a lot of time," added Benitez.

"I am very confident and I want to win things. I know there are good teams in Europe and here, but if you don't believe in yourself, it will be impossible."

The Reds boss has cited the win over AC Milan's fellow Italian club Juventus as helping instil a belief among his players that they could win the club's fifth European Cup.

And he says comments from the Milan camp describing Liverpool as fortunate to be in the final are not proving an extra spur to win at the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul.

He said: "It's not important what people say about us. We will just work really hard at our preparation and game plan and not listen to anyone from outside.

"What is said doesn't motivate me, I don't need any more motivation. I already have a lot of it."

Reds captain Steven Gerrard echoed the sentiments of Benitez and is adamant Milan will underestimate Liverpool at their peril.

"We have always been the underdogs and we will be the underdogs on the 25th in Istanbul, everyone thinks Milan will just have to turn up to beat us," said the 24-year-old.

"But they will be in for a really big fight, we are up for it and we are confident that we will be able to surprise everyone again.

"The Champions League has brought out the best from this side, there is great belief and confidence amongst us all.

"We have gone all the way to the final and beaten some fantastic teams and we now are really confident.

"There's a tough task ahead but we are not going to Istanbul just to enjoy the experience, we are going there to win it."

Congrats to Liverpool
from a Man U fan

The only one missing from Marcos Cafu's CV is the Champions' League, while Hernan Crespo battles Pippo Inzaghi for a starting spot in Istanbul.

“This is a trophy that I have always dreamed of winning and the only one that I have yet to lift,” said the Brazilian defender.

“Ever since I won the Intercontinental Cup with Sao Paolo against Milan 13 years ago I have wondered what it would be like to challenge for the European title. We won that game 3-2 in Tokyo and it remained in my mind. Now I’ll finally have the chance to find out.”

Cafu was still at Roma when Milan were last in the Final, having beaten Juventus on penalties in 2003, so this will be his first Champions’ League showdown.

Coach Carlo Ancelotti claimed earlier this week that he has already decided the starting eleven that will face Liverpool, but newspapers in Italy maintain there is some element of doubt.

The main question surrounds who will partner Andriy Shevchenko, as Pippo Inzaghi and Hernan Crespo are battling for one place.

The fact that Crespo played for almost all of the 3-3 draw with Palermo on Friday suggests that he will not be in the starting line-up, but his impressive performance in that tie could push Ancelotti into a rethink.

Serginho bagged a brace against Palermo and has also been on fine form recently, so the Brazilian could come in as a substitute to unleash his pace on Liverpool.

The Milan squad will leave Malpensa airport at 4pm on Monday to arrive in Istanbul at 7.30pm local time.

It absolutely kills me to say this, but I'm very worried about Milan, and my confidence is not so high at this point.

If they play like they did against Man U, I think they'll win 2-0 or 3-1.

If they play like they have since the PSV second leg, they'll lose 1-0.

Here's hoping for the former.

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Proud Supporter of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox, The Three-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, The 16 Time NBA Champion Boston Celtics, the four Time NCAA and 26 time Beanpot champion Boston University

for a little while now, and its not easy to just switch back on for the european cup final

i just think the scousers may edge it

will be an interesting game though, especially to see how rafa sets them up to deal with kaka, sheva and all

i just cant

its like asking which 1 of my kids do i prefer??

.. cant be done !

anything's possible

gotta root for Milan tho, met the guys on the team a couple times and they were nothin but nice

plus shevchenko is the truth

hold your head up high, and don't be afraid of the dark
at the end of the storm is a golden sky and a sweet silver song on a lark
walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain
though your dreams be tossed and blown
walk on, walk on
with hope in your heart
AND YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

Nuff said.



peace

;)

--Maurice

as they're my uncle's team but of course when 'Pool and the Blues played each other it was all pool that day.

Cisse looked good his last appearence scoring twice, so does that mean they'll play him instead of Baros or the two together? I'd say Djibril takes his place.

Celtic are my other team (too lazy to find that post).





peace

I dunno; how's Baros been? One thing I love about Pool, and this was under Houllier and still under Benitez, is how they don't go with snap decisions and just throw in the hot new thing (they just buy them and look to offload them in the offseason). All kidding aside, I think the lineup should be approached with a cool head that may very well out-challenge AC.

--Maurice

Stop with this imaginary relative of yours. You're just hurting my feelings now.

:D

--Maurice

only glory hunters

Well, I've been glory hunting for about seven years now. That premiership trophy was a nice bit of glory, though.

--Maurice

And you'll never get a job!! - Sign on Sign on!

But seriously I really want pool to win. If they sit back, however, and try to hit on the counter, which Rafa loves doing, Milan will pick them off easily.

If they go all out and have a go, which they did against Arsenal early in the second half at Highbury this season - they can do it!

Come on you reds!!

congrats if you made it this far, we had a blast huh ? maybe not :D

anyway with 48 points available in the final this one aint over


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Liverpool over AC Milan in penalties.

--Maurice

can i put you down for a 2-1 ?

or draw after 90 mins if you like

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yes

so anyone who predicts anything aet needs the 90 min draw to get the points

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because i am confusing myself here :D

if no extra time then its simple, the score at 90 mins is the score

if it goes aet, the score at 120 minutes counts as the final score for competition purposes

PENALTIES DONT COUNT

so a tie at 120. 1-1, 2-2, whatever, will go down as a draw for competition purposes

thats seems fair, non ?

now i have to call my vodoo priest

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still undecided, it's a tough call at the 3hr 30 min mark before kickoff.

--Maurice

as I was just about to predict the same outcome. Seeing as you are a little ahead, I must be a little dirty and strategize in order to emerge victorious.

liverpool score first they'll have it.

Then again, the way this weeks been going...

I would say that Liverpool has all of them in its favour!

Liverpool 1: Milan: 0

Early goal, that Liverpool will sit on for the rest of the game. It has worked so far in the competition and I for one will be happy irrespective of the way they go about winning it...

Milan, 2-0.

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it's a long wait till tomorrow nite n/m

I'm hoping for some Cisse magic.

before it's too late, 1-0 Milan (shevchenko)

Of course the talent on the sqauds tells me Milan, but can the Liverpool run stay true for one more game? Im a sucker for the underdogs: Liverpool 2-1

it would be nice if the reds would win it, but my realistic prediction would be 3-1 for milan.

it would be grotesque if liverpool would win the damn thing and then play uefa-cup next year.

*shakes head*





...don't mention the war...

Liverpool 6-4 (with all red arrows for the condition setting)

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hmmm...


hmmmm....



not yet

..double 6 this time around?

2-1 Liverpool.

Will go into ET and somehow Liverpool will get a goal before penalty kicks.

--Maurice

haha

2:2


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2-1 milan.

but come one milan!! *off to watch the game*


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VA - Life:Styles - Kenny Dope
Silhouette Brown
Blueprint - 1988
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

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DANG!
ALREADY!

Welcome back to reality, 5th placers.

Poor defending by the Pool defenders in the box, none of them stepped up to take away Maldini's shot or even alter the kick.

My Mantra when dealing with White folks:

When you are playing with a dog, do not ever forget to keep a stick within reach

Akan Proverb

Milan nearly scored a second goal (off a corner kick).
Lucky Liverpool, Garia was on the near post.
Liverpool look more like the the Norwich to Milan's Arsenal.

WHY THE FUKC WOULD U START HARRY KEWELL? HES FUCKIN HRORIBLE..HE HASNT DONE SHIT IN HIS ENTIRE LIVERPOOL CARRREER, AND ON TOP OF THAT HE'S BEE NHURT..WTF!1?
stick to what got u here..they dont have enough in midfield...biscan, if he's not injured or ruled out by suspension, obviousyl shouldve played..if not him, then hamann..just fuckin stupid...i guarantee theyd have been a lot less likely to give up soemthing on a set piece...theyve been horrible on set pieces for the last 3 years but theyve been good lately since theyve had biscan in there...sooo fuckin stupid.
and if u wanted to give milan a differnt look, a surprise, fuckin start cisee! someone that can actually do something..fuck harry kewell..the minute i saw him on the starting line up, i knew it was over..its relaly taht fuckin simple

what a ufkcin blessing.b.ut why the ufck would u bring on smiceR? l23e3rljr2lrj32lr3 IIM FUCXGSSOGAN DFUCKING GDDRCAY21!@ HOPW STUPIXD CAN U BE?!!@?!?

bting on on cisse~! 2elrywelrk awejf
BRING ON CISSE! WHAT THE FUKC AR U THINKING, RAFA?!?!?!
BRING ON FUCKIN DJIBRIL, 20 FUCKIN GOALS A SEASON CISSE, U FUCKIN IDIOT!

what the fuck is smicer? a fuckin over the hill euro 96 czech who adds nothing that kewell didnt already have....omg...im gonna go die now.

kaka is owning this fuckin game. its so simple. liverpool dont have the extra defensive midfielder (hamann/biscan) that wouldve been stopping him running free and picking fools apart.
traore looks horrible. everytime kaka runs through and is face to face with the back four, all the liverpool defenders foolishly flock to the ball, and then crespo or shevchenko fan their runs out wide where theres space to have a picnic in.
gerrard is fuckin anonymous.
liverpool need two strikers. they needed two strikers from the jump, but now they really really fucckin need cise out there..
two goals down..game is over, espeically if liverpool keep the same team and tactics out there.


EDIT!
ooh so crespo scored while i was typing this...lol great.
this'll end up the most lopsided CL final ever...wahts the record?
milan could end up with 7 or 8, no joke.

In the commentator box

This is beautiful!

What a stud!

Liverpool over commit on offense and got caught. Fuggeddaboutit.

The bars in ITaly are runnin out of liquor right about now!
3-0 For AC

Cant get better than that....right between Carragher and Hyypia.....holy shit, and then the touch by Crespo. Milan's form today is fucking ridiculous.

so much for Milan being tired and uninspired

is really embarrassing. what the heck is djimi traore doing playing in a european cup final.

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Sa-Ra - Dark Matter & Pornography Mixtape
VA - Life:Styles - Kenny Dope
Silhouette Brown
Blueprint - 1988
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

http://www.deephousepage.com/

So much for Milan being 'out of form' I suppose.

ht 3-0

i have praised benitez enough in the past, now he gets the criticism

why change the succesful 4-5-1 with hamman protecting the back 4 allowing alonso and gerrard to play, to leaving out hamman all together to play an extra striker and burdening the other midfielders with extra defensive work ?

this against a team who have in kaka possibly the best player in the world in that position between midfield and attack that hamman is supposed to be controlling

crazy decision that has backfired spectacularly

some nice play by milan i must add, that 3rd goal was a beautiful thing

He was gonna make headlines one way or another

this is crazy

We have a ball game now!

this is fucking crazy!!!

game back on

Liverpool are lucky to have this stud!

WOW!

I just switched teams at halftime, that's all.

now this is a game of football

get the fuck out of here

Do they still exist?

--Maurice

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This is great!

'pool need to drop # 4, they're taking too many half-chances a& arn't working to get good shots. I get the feeling Milan's gonna still one against the run of play

SERGINHO!

That smicer shot was SICK, plus Dida didnt get the best jump on it anyways. The penalty may have been questionable (did look like he got caught on the foot) but Xabi made sure to put his rebound away top shelf.

The game has noticeably slowed down...Liverpool looks to be settling back on defense and trying to catch a counter (like they nearly just did with Cisse but alas offsides).

What a fucking game though, I've never seen the game swing so quickly.

He lets Tomasson get behind him, and Serginho nearly makes him pay with a nice pass.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

damn, y'all making this shit sound like its epic.

<--- Reginald Wayne Miller. 31 and only.

"I remember saying to myself, 'I'm going to show people where Indiana is. I don't know how or how long it's going to take, but people are going to know what a Pacer is." ~ Reginald Wayne Miller

I'm also a lame duck for the next couple of months b4 I move on, so it's much easier to pull off

oh shit!

The trouble maker, my daddy burns me with cigs, cat.

Dudek with a great save initially, then the second with his hands....my goodness. Shevers could have put more touch on it, but considering how close he was to Dudek, I thought it was over as well.

all these french league forwards that were hyped up & came into the premiership suck. He can't hold baros' jock

Cisse is still recovering...

well there was Guivarch... lol
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And I'm throwing drogba in there

you're not being fair at all

And I was refering to the hype on this website last year, and how often people kept talking about the french league is so supperior & that they would come in & dominate. Injury or not Cisse game is not very developed.

The french league!?
Superior!?

I've watched the french league more than any other league my whole life and I still gotta place it 5th. That french crack is not cooked right son.

:)

lol

so you judge a player "just" by a season ?

so Baros was a shitty player until this season too ?
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worse move he ever did was leave Arsenal. His brothers got greedy.

Good business for us though, we bought him for 500,000 and sold him for 22 million.


My Mantra when dealing with White folks:

When you are playing with a dog, do not ever forget to keep a stick within reach

Akan Proverb

wings tattooed on his back, Ja RUle style

hmmm

hmmm


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son, you had it won.

this is great. penalties.


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listening to...

Sa-Ra - Dark Matter & Pornography Mixtape
VA - Life:Styles - Kenny Dope
Silhouette Brown
Blueprint - 1988
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

http://www.deephousepage.com/

Cat is doing everything to distract Milan.

congrats


i love this sport
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The save on shevers in et was ridiculous, then that PK save was dope as well. My goodness, Liverpool just won the Champs League!!

DUUUUUUUUUDEK!!!!!


yo, he had THEM SHOOK, chevckenko bitched up, he was really shook by all of Dudek's antics, I mean damn. He was the last I'd expected to be affected.

<-- 40/40 club

even after the match was tied....

i have to give liverpool credit for coming back the way they did. they had milan SHOOK with their three goals. but i can't believe such a wack ass team who haven't won their domestic league for 15 odd years (and won't be winning it anytime soon) have just won this competition.

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listening to...

Sa-Ra - Dark Matter & Pornography Mixtape
VA - Life:Styles - Kenny Dope
Silhouette Brown
Blueprint - 1988
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

http://www.deephousepage.com/

Really does show the foolishness of this so-called Champions league though, it's just a glorified Euro Cup, ain't nothing Chanpion about it.



My Mantra when dealing with White folks:

When you are playing with a dog, do not ever forget to keep a stick within reach

Akan Proverb

good for him, I liked him when he first burst on the scene.

I have no idea what I just saw.

Yeah, I said it!
FOOTBALL

lets not go overboard.

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/mrmagic/

listening to...

Sa-Ra - Dark Matter & Pornography Mixtape
VA - Life:Styles - Kenny Dope
Silhouette Brown
Blueprint - 1988
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

http://www.deephousepage.com/

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haha
recognize

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the greatest even

GAMES though ?

c'mon
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greatest comeback for sure. But after the reds equalized, the game was pretty much a bore until the end of extra time

but considering the underdog came back from being down 3 at halftime, i'd say this is about as good of a spectacle as you can get.

And after they knocked us out, I was pretty damn sure nobody (including Chelsea) had the creativity to beat them.

that was like Banks from Pele

Lets go fucking mental ah da sda da oooohhh! ah da da da da oohhh! Lets go fucking mental lets go fucking mental ah daaa da daaaooohhh!

i wasnt even watching when they scored the first two goals cuz i was so sure the game was over...

shevchenko must feel like shit.

dudek's double save in the 119th minute was crazy. the save of the year.
and theres no way they can not have liverpool back to defend the trophy next season...it'd just be stupid.

before the season, i predicted valencia would win the CL, cuz i thought the uefa cup winners would translate into CL sucess, a la porto..but no, its the coach that matters, not the team. got that wrong..hehe.
so whoever the Cska coach coaches next year will win the CL?

gerrard is the truth. lol he and kaka switched roles in the 2nd half.

i had a lot more stuff to say, but i guess i'll remember later. this is great.

So were Cafu and Kaka in the 2nd half.

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First when Traore let Tommason get behind him and he gave a nice lob, and then what should have been the deal breaker with Shev not putting away the rebound. He did miss the penalty kick, but he played pretty solid otherwise.

still can't believe the score went from 0-3 to 3-3 in 6 minutes.
Best sports moment this year for me by far.

from predicting, analysing, whatever

shit was fucking ridiculous

i love football

I hope Jerzy Dudek's seat drops out of the Liverpool team plane and he falls to the ground in Milan where he can be ripped to shreds.

I hope Steven Gerrard falls after someone grazes him with their arm and breaks his kneecaps. That penalty was crap. (of course, I say that knowing full well Milan choked there...but the officials didn't help with that bad boy)

As for Serginho...worst start to PKs ever.

Sheva deserved better...lucky fuckin Polack.

I hope Liverpool is swallowed by the earth tonight.

(as you can all see, I'm taking this well).
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Proud Supporter of the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox, The Three-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, The 16 Time NBA Champion Boston Celtics, the four Time NCAA and 26 time Beanpot champion Boston University

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well guys wot can i say ?

really though... i aint read any1 elses posts here i just wanted the raw unadulterated truth to be spoken from my mouth right now....

1st half liverpool were well shocked ! seriously after 1 minute???? for gods sake..worse start ever ! 2nd goal went in and i thought, fucking hell , here we go, were gunna get a drubbing.3rd goal went in i was reading to walk out of the place coz i was sickened

2nd half..well i was suprised not to see Cisse, Gerrards header went in, i thought it was nothing more than consolation. Smicer scores and the everyone went nuts, seriously FUCKING nuts, i got soaked from flying beer coz the belief was outta this world.. Then we get a penalty...fuck me, i couldnt watch it, hands over my eyes job.. i was scared. When we eventully got the ball in the net it was bedlam.

extra time was much of a muchness... iknew it would be cagey

penalties...wellllll, 2 great saves from Dudek, who woulda thought Shevvers ( the best striker in the world) woulda missed, but he did...

the rest they say is history.

im chuffed as chips !

its been a shitty season, as they have been so inconsistant... but fuck it, were EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS !!!!

i always had belief in my team

liverpool are the greatest team ever in football history

one of the greatest nights of my life

Stevie Stevie Stevie Stevie Gerrard...

BTW SevenEleven suck my cock, bitch.

it was a fantastic game

great win for britain, great win for merseyside

we'll have our chance next season

but the kopites are still gobshites.

The Florida Eagles?

I hope you're not tainting this with a reference to Heysel. People in Europe aren't, so why should you?

what the fuck would i accomplish by making a reference to heysel?

reason you would call Liverpool fans gobshites if you were a green-eyed ex pat blue nose. So I'll concede what I wrote.

Still, you think you have a serious chance? Negative.

Five, count 'em FIVE cups. How many have the blue shite got?


What's the matter? Gone a bit quiet in the blue corner...

i'm not going to say that everton is going to dominate, and i'm not going to say that we're going to get eliminated from the get go....

then again, after that last match against arsenal....

Why is ROY KEANE in your 'would like to meet'?

Where is big Dunc? Call yourself an Everton fan?

you actually from Liverpool? or you one of those arseholes who supports a team cause their English?

You want nothing to do with me, so wtf are you doing?

>You want nothing to do with me, so wtf are you doing?

calling you out for your bullshit. thougt that was fucking obvious.

i don't feel the need to explain myself to a prick such as yourself.

>Stevie Stevie Stevie Stevie Gerrard...

diving, diving, diving, diving twat...

d, representin' Ottawa

what i'm listening to
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/bigdottawa

seldomly updated blog
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I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about.

unfortunately, the dvr cut off all of extra time and, apparently, the pks.

i waited all day without checking the score just to NOT SEE EXTRA TIME AND THE SHOOT OUT.

I didn't need to play hookie after all.


I feel your pain though, WC98, that happened to me too many times. Argentina-England being the most painful occurance. It was tough b/c you wanted to account for it, but you also wanted to fit both matches on 1 cassette.

on espn2?

didn't see this comming! I didn't see any of this comming, I didn't see Milan scoring in like the 1st minute of the game and I sure as hell didn't think they were going to be up 3-0, I DIDN'T see pool commin back to tie it 3-3. Crazy shit, I have to admit I wanted milan to win, but this is football.

at least, none of the listings are saying it is.

they are showing it as an "instant classic" at 10.

nm

It's a celebration.

--Maurice

Good for Liverpool. Can't wait for the replay.

jezus

liverpool were rank in the first half
dissallowed goal! (he looked even)
they improved in the second, AC Milan kept playing well
LIverpool got 2 great goals (well, Gerrard should have been marked and that guy should have chased Smicer instead of tying his shoelace, but they weren't big defensive errors like 'pool's)
Milan lost the place and let them get a penalty (bit of a dive, mind)
the boy MISSES the penalty then sticks in the rebound!
game continues more evenly, AC have the better chances
extra time!
Shevchenko and Tomasson SHOULD have finished it
penalties and psychological warfare!
Milan fans should have gotten out to support their team more

one thing though. for a UEFA final, the rules are so lax. One of the liverpool goals should have been halted for an offside flag. That guy didn't get sent off, which it says in the rules (does it not?). Players standing inside the D and inside the box for the penalty. Dudek came way off his line for the second penalty (shoot out).

nice that it was played in good spirit

God how many times will these idiots do this against crappy English teams???? (Except Arsenal of course)

See y'all next season. We'll be waiting...

--Maurice

that was AMAZING!!!

3 goals in 6 minutes, and dida blocks the penalty...

during halftime we were talking about how shitty you must feel as a supporter if you trvel to istanbul and get a ticket on the blackmarket for a shitload of money and then you are behind 0-3.

and then it turned out to be the best night in the life of a liverpool supporter.

it reminded me of the uefa-cup final a few years ago agains vigo...how was it, they were behind 1-3 and won 5-4...

maybe they should be in the finals every year...


shows you how gross this cl-thing is...liverpool being faaaaaar away from being a champion and winning the cl...


i love this game!

congratulations reds, i'm a bit envious, i wonder how it feels to be a supporter of a team that wins the cl...
(or even qualifies for it...borussia mönchengladbach for life...!!!)

on not being able to defend the CL title next year. Also congrats on holding down the 5th spot of the EPL, sharing the same amount of points with Bolton.

Aw, come on, man. Give them their props.

--Maurice

>Aw, come on, man. Give them their props.

comming back from from 3 goals down against milan does merit props. I've never had any ill feelings towards Liverpool and I've never been a big fan, I've always been netural towards them. I'd rather have them win it instead of man u or arsenal.

Congratulations on winning the premiership and then having your heart torn out by us the same week. Feels good don't it? Chelsea will buy one soon don't worry.



peace

I think I totally got Milan'd.

i left it in work, yes again

sorry kids, tomorrow

After the worst start imaginable. They were just scared shitless in the first half. What a fu**in ball by Kaka on that third goal. I still had some hope though if we could get an early goal and thanks to captain Stevie's great header we did just that. Smicer with a nice low drive and u just had that feeling...then Gerrard wins the penalty and it's complete elation, turned agony turned elation again in a matter of seconds. Damn Xabi don't play with us like that!

What a horrible night for Schev. Gets stoned on a free-kick, absolutely robbed at the end of the 2nd extra period (unbelieveable saves) and then goes on to miss the penalty. One of those nights, though it was a poorly struck penalty anyway.

Dudek with the crazy legs had Serginho & Pirlo shook. There aren't many things worse then losing on penalties, coversely of course there aren't many things better, especially when it's for the European Cup!

Y'all can have your league titles and undeserved F.A. Cups. Cause we won the big one baby and I still can't believe it.

Guaranteed that they'll be defending it next year. It's only logical. Get rid of Arsenal, they NEVER do shit in Europe anyway, you know when it really matters! Haha, woooooooooooooooooooooo.



peace

co-sign, co-sign

>It's only logical. Get rid of Arsenal, they NEVER do shit in Europe
>anyway

I can agree with that 100%

Honestly I think it does kind of sucks that the champ can't play next year to defend their title. I read somewhere that Real Madrid won it one year and they gave them the final CL spot over Zaragosa (I think it was Zaragosa). So instead of having Everton fucked over, they should knock out Arsenal, that would be very sweet!

rules are rules and they finished in 5th place

There's a precedent for this.

>There's a precedent for this.

they let the Spanish Federation decide..

And that was Spain, Real Madrid and Real Saragossa



so the FA will prolly have the decision



good luck explainning Everton they have to let Liverpool participate
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Considering that Everton didn't get to go because of "that" incident (we won't utter its name), it really should be Everton that gets to go... especially since they legally earned the spot. What Spain did was more or less a function of their continuing bending of the rules in Real's favor, in my humble opinion.

--Maurice

unbelievable. kakas pass was absolutely perfect. carragher is the man...dudeks double was sick. i played goalie in hockey...once or twice do you ever make a save like that...unreal.

too bad it had to go to penalties...

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ok so your that aflakete guy right ?

why you confusing me for ? :D

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cos if he did i cant see it

yes i did

but under my other login

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=75100&mesg_id=75100&page=#76738

damnshitfuckmotherfuckerbitch


it's up to y'all to validate it or not
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I want to make some snide comment about this, but that'll have to do.

--Maurice

if you can believe that a certain user has 2 logins then he's won it. and i do because lets be honest, why the fuck would anyone lie or cheat to win this ? :D

so yeah, thanks to all who participated, especially those who made it to every round, a hardy bunch with too much time on their hands and no life to speak of ;)

it made for some 'interesting banter' at times, and dont worry this season still isnt officially over yet and in a few weeks time they will all be back in preseason training \o/

the prize ? you take on liverpool in a pre pre qualifying round for the right to enter next seasons comp

peace

1 afrobongo 337
2 bridgetown 335
3 uncleclimax 335
4 b9 322
5 soulcontroller 314
6 hardrom 299
7 pengedragon 287
8 meagain 241
9 nowhereman 207
10 eusebio 191
11 nighttripper 160

thank you all. I can't finish a thing.

YEAH RIGHT BITCHES


I AM FOOTBALL


and you know it
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>YEAH RIGHT BITCHES
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>I AM FOOTBALL
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>and you know it

YOU ARE LUCKY

and you know it.

;)

--Maurice

125 if i'm not mistaken...


YES I AM

and so are you, oh my dear second.


PREDICTIONLEAGUE, LIGA, CALCIO and Footgasm Champion 2005 = MY ASS !

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>125 if i'm not mistaken...
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>YES I AM
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>and so are you, oh my dear second.
>

I don't know HOW I predicted any of this weird ass competition.

--Maurice

i'm sayin tho

"Hate it or love it The Underdogs are on top" So do I get a prize?? :P well here are the final standings for those who care.

1 The Underdogs
2 Mos Def Squad
3 beautiful
4 Bridgetown 1966
5 Love, Winter Style
6 Barcelinho
7 Penon de Ifach
8 iola's eleven
9 OkieChiSouth-United9
10 Real Ale Madrid
10 windsor key bastards
10 Equatorial Brothers
10 AC Magic United
10 mE__agains crusaders
10 F.H. Superstars