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The Official Liverpool FC - Champions of Europe [2004/2005] Thread

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rony31

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nird said:
there are so much fuzz wether the ball was in or not, if the ref didn't call it a goal, there would be a penalty and probably red card to cech for being WAY to late into Baros
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I think thats why no Chelsea players argued the goal at all... until the game ended at least


best of luck in the finals Liverpool, let's hope both teams play their usual boring, containment style of football so all the neutrals can bitch about the entertainment level :ewan:
 
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The Kop Kid

Senior Squad
Ebonix said:
About time we had some luck! I think althought it might not of been fully over the line, I think it was closer than the picture suggests.

Anyway these talking points make football great!
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I agree with you about the 'talking points' bit. Even though refs f*ck up quite a bit I think that that aspect of the game adds to the drama. I don't really like the idea of the microchip in the ball experiment.

I still can't quite believe that we're in the Champions League final. Fookin magnificent!
 
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SuRFy

Starting XI
Liverpool's Carragher taunts Chelsea: You can't buy fans like ours

Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has taunted money-bags Chelsea: 'You can't buy fans like ours'.
Carragher knows better than anyone about Merseyside passion after growing up a few miles down the road in Bootle.


Yet even he was dumbstruck by the noise level at Anfield.

The defender said: "Chelsea have bought great players and have an excellent manager - but you can't buy fans like ours.

"That atmosphere was better than anything I've known and I've been involved in some great nights recently. The games against Juventus and Olympiakos were unbelievable but this was something else.

"Even when we were warming up 40 minutes before the game the crowd was as noisy as it's been for a long time.

"Normally you can hear DJ George playing his records but even he was drowned out by the singing. We knew then it was going to be a special night and it gave us a hell of a boost.

"No disrespect to Chelsea but their supporters aren't like ours. We've got a working-class support while the majority of fans at the first leg last week are probably a bit more well-to-do.

"Clubs which have that traditional core of working-class fans are always going to be more passionate about football.

"They get involved in the game a lot more and create a much better atmosphere.

"It's just a fact which is proven by other grounds across the country - and there's none better than our fans or Anfield on a European night."


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John_Arne_Riise

Senior Squad
Well he is right :D

Also, man of the match poll on the official site for the game vs Chelsea.

1st Carragher, 8931 votes
2nd Garcia, 488 votes

A landslide victory.
 
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lplover2k2

Senior Squad
We will meet AC Milan!!! Psv played better than Milan in both legs overall but Milan was very lucky and psv'd defence not enough concentrated....
 
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Joe Star

Starting XI
Phew....looking at PSV attacking last night....i'm actually thinking that AC will be easier to beat. Anyway cya guys in the final :ewan:
 
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darkaznknight

Youth Team
how great is this hey. I think the stars are right. I'm prety confident. Our squad is almost at full strentgh no ones banned for this match beside pelle and mori being cup tied. I hope the best for us on 26th and the main thing is getting back to the champions league next year. We'll be in it. If we win both last games and Everton only manages one win out 3 then its party time for us. I hope my main man harry kewell will get his form back again charging down jaap stam as he did when he was at leeds. Best of luck fellas. Btw good news for arsenal game. No henry and no ljungberg. Danger man Van persie. We should manage. Have you guys relised Pellegrino sucks! He's the reason why we're losing premiership games. Our defence is so shaky then. If we played usual 4 finann carra hyypia and traoare at the back then dam wel be strong. I dont think he deserves a new contract do yous?
 
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Mutt

Yahoo Pool King
UEFA set to deny Liverpool
UEFA will not change the rules to allow Liverpool to enter next season's Champions League as holders.

Liverpool will face AC Milan in this season's final in Istanbul on May 25.

But even victory could see the Anfield side miss out on next season's competition, with FA chiefs expected to decide at a meeting today that the top four in the Premiership should qualify for the Champions League - no matter what happens to Liverpool in Istanbul.

Liverpool will then have to rely solely on a change of rules by UEFA should they win the final but finish out of the top four in the Premiership.

But a rule change now appears unlikely, with UEFA director of communications William Gaillard insisting the rule 'stays at it is' for next season.

Gaillard told the Daily Mail: 'For future seasons, say from 2006-2007, the executive committee may look to change the rule. But for next season the rule stays at it is.

'The English Premiership has four places and it would be unfair to tell another national association that they have lost one of theirs.

'You cannot change the rule at this late stage of the season.'

The FA will continue to lobby UEFA for a fifth place for English clubs, and the position of European football's governing body appeared to have shifted slightly but importantly in favour of Liverpool this week following an intervention from president Lennart Johansson.

Although their regulations stipulate that a maximum of four sides from any one country can take part in Europe's elite club competition, Johansson made it clear UEFA's executive committee do have the power to overrule and enforce any changes.

However, Gaillard's comments seem to leave Liverpool chasing an unlikely fourth place in the Premiership for the right to play in next season's competition.

UEFA will not take any action until after the final itself and should Liverpool win that, a decision would be made at the next executive committee meeting on June 17.

It is understood that the majority of the FA's professional game board strongly favour awarding qualification to the side who finish fourth in the league.

The Premier League will resist any attempt to remove the Champions League reward from the side that finishes fourth - Everton are in pole position - and most of the six chairmen are believed to hold similar views.

They are Dave Richards (Premier League), David Dein (Arsenal vice-chairman), Rupert Lowe (Southampton), Phil Gartside (Bolton), David Sheepshanks (Ipswich) and Peter Heard (Colchester).

Their decision will need to be approved by the full FA board but, given that the six are also members of that body, that will merely be a rubber-stamping exercise.


http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=332563&cc=3436


sucks.
 
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Virgo

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Mutt said:
'The English Premiership has four places and it would be unfair to tell another national association that they have lost one of theirs.
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if you think it sucks then imagine what it would mean to the other team that worked their butts off domestically to get in the CL and then loses their spot because Liverpool sucked domestically this season.

If it happened to Benfica I'd go to the UEFA Hq and start a killing spree
 
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AberdeenFC

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they dont deserve champions league football if they cant even manage 4th domestically so i dont really have a problem with that. everton have earned it... to be honest they've been shít in the 2nd half of the season and have dropped so many points and we still havent caught them so dont deserve CL next year is we come 5th :boohoo:
 
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Dream Team

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There's only one precedent of this. In 1998 or 2000, Real Madrid won the CL and they didn't finish between the 1st-4th in la Liga. Zaragoza finished 4th and they lost the CL place..

Very unfair, how many chances will Zaragoza have to be in the CL? 1 in 100 years?

Though it would be also unfair that the winner can't defend the title..
 
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solaimaa

Reserve Team
Here's an idea:

Since the race in England is tight, and the race in Spain is very tight as well, why don't they change the rules for one season and get 5 teams from each major country instead of 4. That way, they can create another group for the CL.

5 Teams for England
5 Teams for Spain
5 Teams for Germany
5 Teams for Italy

1 More Champions League group, and the tournament continues. I know it will never happen, but it is an interesting possibility.
 
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Virgo

Guest
no... or in a few years even the relegation spots are CL spots. It's bad enough as it is atm.
 
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[dfm]

Senior Squad
Virgo said:
no... or in a few years even the relegation spots are CL spots. It's bad enough as it is atm.
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Yeah, definitely that idea is completely ridiculous, i think UEFA only allows 4 teams for the big countries because of the money... they only think about that, otherwise they should have kept the old format of the competition that was trully fair to me cause a "Champions League" should only include the Champions of each country IMO...
 
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