Email doing the rounds obviously knocked up by a deperate Liverpool fan who is either a sado fact head or can use a search engine well :

I’m not saying we will win the champions league nor am I saying we will even get past Chelsea but here is a few things to think about If you're not convinced that Liverpool can go all the way this season and lift the European Cup for a fifth time, then consider these facts.

In 1978, the year Liverpool won their second European Cup, Wales won the Rugby Union Grand slam, Liverpool lost the League Cup final to the team who went on to win the League Championship and the Pope at the time sadly passed away.

And in 1981, the year Liverpool won the European crown for the third time, Prince Charles got married while Coronation Street's Ken and Deirdrie also tied the knot.

It just may be written in the stars that the Reds will end this campaign as Champions of Europe. Again.


PS, I follow Ipswich town but would like to see an English team win it.

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Glad to see a fellow Ipswich supporter Rudd, and a supporter of their LOCAL team too!! Would rather Chelsea get through though because i cant stand liverpool, but then dont you just want to slap jose mourinho??

I am just glad they got past Juve last night. I am not a Liverpudlian, but live there. The behaviour of some of the Italians was disgraceful. Further evidenced in Turin last night (although some of the Liverpool iuntelligensia left a lot to be desired). Everyone in Europe talks about the 'English Disease' - it's either contagious or a deflection from a wider problem they have in their own house, and UEFA in their typically anti-English way turn a blind eye to it.

Do you ever see or hear condemnation of the behaviour of Dutch, German Italian or Turkish fans by UEFA? I thought not.

The Scottish and welsh fans are as bad, trouble is they make it that far

I have to admit that even though i am a lfc fan TV only i might add (no football team is worth possibly getting attacked for)I did not give prior to the game a cat in hells chance of success and even though it was an amazing result still don't think we are good enough to win it,i hope I'm wrong, as football as the saying goes is a funny old game,but as a fan from the early seventies i still remember with great fondness the great sides of the past and at this moment Liverpool are not a great side but one day the glory days will return.

Remember Bill Shankly? Tommy Smith John Toshack Phil Thompsom, just to name a few.
LFC were a great team then Kendo

shanks was a football god as far as i am concerned,it was his building of the squad and his philosophy of football that paisley and all that were associated with Liverpool football club inherited after his death and held them in good stead until souness whom i had liked as a footballer tore the heart out of the club.

Supporters of Italian club Juventus upset their Liverpool counterparts after disgraceful scenes before and during the two teams' Champions League clash last week. Although their propensity for dying unnecessarily at football matches already marks them for international shame, the Italian fans' latest behaviour represents a new low.

In an attempt to make up for some residual bad feeling between the sides — thought by locals to stem from Italian guilt resulting from the unjustified penalty awarded to Juventus when the two sides last played back in 1985 — Liverpool officials had pulled out all the stops to create an atmosphere of goodwill.

As well as handing out cards to every Juventus fan entering the ground declaring "We Forgive You", each one also received a goody bag containing a reconstituted meat pie, a pair of tickets to Beatle World (not valid during the week), a What's on in Manchester guide and a copy of ex-Liverpool captain Phil Neal's autobiography Standing Tall Not Kneeling Down — Reminiscences of a Footballing Colossus.

Just before the game began some of the survivors of the Liverpool charge into Block Z at Heysel unfurled a huge banner for the benefit of the away supporters. It read "Tiramisu", and a Liverpool official later explained that this should have been the Italian word for friendship but that no one at the club knew any other words "in Wop".

The atmosphere of goodwill was summed up by one Liverpool fan making his way to the Kop: "I think the club have done an amazing job," he enthused. "It just shows how much we Scousers care — even about a bunch of spaghetti-munchers." Another added: "I was in tears. This sort of recognition of the of the past leading to reconciliation are essential. The 1985 final should never have gone ahead, and therefore the game should be replayed or the cup awarded to us."

However, a section of the Juventus fans turned their back on the peace offering before the game and heckled during the minute's silence marking the 1980 slaying of John Lennon. The Italians also failed to cheer the Reds' deserved victory.

Fair play to Liverpool, I didn't think they had a chance either.

It just worries me that we could see a Liverpool V PSV final (unlikely I know) but hardly the best 2 sides in Europe.

Last year it was Lyon V Monaco. I think the champions league needs to be reformatted. This year in the first knockout stages the best 6 (IMO) teams drew each other.

AC Milan - Man U
Juve - Real Madrid
Barcelona - Chelsea

Liverpool are struggling to hold onto 4th place in the P'ship, I reckon it should be 1st and 2nd's only from any country.

HB.

You get what you deserve in the game of football and if Liverpool and PSV meet in the final then they have every right to be there.
Personally i think only the league winners and the current holders should go through and knock out stages from the first round.
If the so called bigger teams can't beat the lesser teams then why should they go through.

Those who are not in the champions league semi final can watch in awe as the reds and chelsea fly the flag for english football :cool:

P.S It was porto and Monaco in last years final.