Isn't that because the pitch-side advertising hoardings are higher for the CL and so LFC don't sell the seats because you can hardly see anything from the front rows?
Crowd sounds are always dumbed down for the overseas coverage. I know cos i watch it every week. However you could still hear the protest and the atmosphere was noticeably strange (if that's the word) for the enire 6 minutes.
"Jose Reina as a keeper; he seems to have the unhappy knack of making high-profile mistakes in big games." Maybe he's referring to the FA Cup Final where senor Reina did make a couple of howlers if memory serves me correctly