THAT atmosphere

[allez les rouges]

it still sends shudders down my spine when i think about it.

 

I read some quotes from terry and the ref about the atmosphere sometime afterwards. I saved them on my pc but unfortunately it blew up. Does anyone have a those quotes?

[Mike]

i like this quote from sir bobby robson

'"I think that playing at Liverpool's stadium is one of the most memorable experiences you can have as a footballer," claimed the 73-year-old. "The fans are incredible. It is different. The team belongs to the supporters; it is the team of the city and because of this, they create a very special atmosphere.

 

makes for an interesting slant on the blues****s stolen claims to be the peoples club. the only time that s*** pit will have a noise like that is when the health and safety tear the f***** down.

[allez les rouges]

i like this quote from sir bobby robson

'"I think that playing at Liverpool's stadium is one of the most memorable experiences you can have as a footballer," claimed the 73-year-old. "The fans are incredible. It is different. The team belongs to the supporters; it is the team of the city and because of this, they create a very special atmosphere.

 

makes for an interesting slant on the blues****s stolen claims to be the peoples club. the only time that s*** pit will have a noise like that is when the health and safety tear the f***** down.

 

it was great. I hope all the goerdies have just read that

 

it was a privilege to be there. i feel humbled everytime i think about it to be honest. It was much better than the final.

 

I hope before i die, i experience something similar again.

[Tommy Cockles]

Been fortunate to have been to over 750 LFC games, but nothing comes close to Chelsea.

 

Being in the Main Stand right next to them was a bonu.s

[CarraLegend]

It was incredible, the place just had something different in the air as soon as you got to the ground. Cant explain it but it was amazing.

[Redwire]

The Liverpool crowd had done an astonishing thing. They made Chelsea play worse than they can, they made Liverpool play better than they can, they made the referee turn a crucial decision their way. That's 23 people all behaving in the way that the Liverpool crowd wished. It was, in the most literal sense, a triumph of hope over expectation.There's a lot of guff written about football crowds, particularly Liverpool's. But the fact is, the tradition of a club is not in the hands or even the feet of players, or managers, hirelings all, who will be off the minute a better offer comes along. No one in football has loyalty to anyone, or is expected to. Only supporters have loyalty. They are not loyal to persons or institutions so much as loyal to loyalty itself. And with Liverpool, the loyalty passed the test of time, the years of comparative failure.

Simon Barnes, The Times

 

The best team may or may not have won, but the best supporters definitely did. Just ask them. Like Jose Mourinho himself, Liverpool fans are good and they know it. A walk down Anfield Road late on Tuesday night was a walk down memory lane. The locals celebrated reaching another European Cup final as if their last one had been months rather than decades ago. Once a champion of Europe, always a champion of Europe. I thought Jamie Carragher captured the Merseyside mood when he said that Liverpool fans had come to take success for granted 20 years ago, and that it would never happen again. Well, not until the next time. The current generation of supporters may have tired of listening to their fathers' fireside stories about the Paisley years, but they never lost the taste for world domination or shed their superiority complex. Even Torben Piechnik and Jimmy Carter couldn't shake their faith altogether. Carragher's eloquent eve-of-battle cry empowered the Kopites again. Like voters in a marginal seat, they were told they could influence the big result. They all volunteered noisily for selection as Liverpool's 12th man. But while Juventus may have suffered stagefright in the quarter-final, it wasn't the decibel level that beat Chelsea but the spirit level. Liverpool's togetherness more than matched the champions' own. The heady atmosphere inside the stadium provided the oxygen for their tireless resistance but the players won the game. They just did it with the pride and passion that their supporters demand of them. Liverpool United are quite a team.

Clive Tyldesley, Daily Telegraph

 

When 40,000 supporters stood as one and held their scaves up and belted out the most rousing rendition of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' some of us have ever heard, it felt humbling to feel such passion. One of the great sights in world football right there in front of you. People stared at each other in awe.

Oliver Holt, Daily Mirror

 

For Liverpool the end justified the means. To be precise, the noise at the end justified the means. When the Slovakian referee Lubos Michel finally blew the whistle after his extraordinary decision to award six minutes of injury-time - what a sound. Anfield has exploded down the years but surely this was volume to rival anything heard before. Part joy, part tension, part release, the stadium erupted. As Jose Mourinho said afterwards: "The power of Anfield Road, I felt it. Anfield was as manic as everyone said it would be and their Liverpool team, the Liverpool of Rafael Benitez, have reached a first Champions League final.

Michael Walker, The Guardian

 

The occasion, with its cyclonic passion and raw desire, ranked alongside the Anfield nights of the 1970s and 1980s when Liverpool won the European Cup an imperious four times.

Jason Burt, The Independent

 

The Slovakian referee's whistle and triumphant Kop signalled the start of the biggest party at Anfield since the last league title. When Liverpool last prepared for what proved a notorious European Cup Final, whowould have predicted the two decades which would follow? Managerial upheaval, wasted millions, decline in status at home and abroad, humiliating cup exits and a 14-year championship drought. For older supporters and explayers, this night revived images of a distant past. For their sons and daughters, these events meant more than those forefathers can ever imagine. Liverpool Football Club has undergone an era of immense change in the last 20 years. Last night proved some things will never change.

Chris Bascombe, Liverpool Echo

 

A new Anfield era has begun. Fate, fairytale, whatever, Liverpool are in the European Cup final. Anfield had surpassed the noise level of Stamford Bridge half an hour before kick-off and the Kop was only a quarter full. Packed, it proved an awesome 12th man.

Andy Hunter, Daily Post

 

The people's club, clad in red, have shattered the biggest, blue-blooded ambitions of the most wealthy power-broker the game has ever known. They did it in an epic, defiant way too. Truly, there has not been a racket like it since, well, since Liverpool last won a European Cup semi-final on one of these white-lit spring nights or since they closed the old, standing-room only Spion Kop end of Anfield in 1994. It was not just a wall of bulging, stretching, moving red shirts upon which Chelsea had to mount a long, fruitless and toothless assault here. It was a wall of noise too.

John Dillon, Daily Express

 

IT MAY or may not have been his wife, but the man who moped wishfully around Anfield in the hours before kick-off holding aloft a placard bearing a picture of a buxom blonde above the words, "One night with my wife for a ticket", just about summed up what football means to the people of Liverpool.

James Ducker, The Times

 

Here were the Saints of Etienne, the burgomasters of Moenchengladbach and the Borgias of Rome rolled into a single semi-final for the new ages. Tinnitus night on the Mersey. This was the European Cup revisited in all its old sound and fury. This was Liverpool throwing themselves back through time. This was a journey down memory lane.

Jeff Powell, Daily Mail

 

It is Liverpool who carry the Premiership standard on to the greatest stage of them all. And nobody can deny them that right. The flame burns bright, their dream, remarkably, lives as it has not for 20 years.

Martin Lipton, Daily Mirror

 

It is one of the oddities of modern football that it was Liverpool - with, as their supporters never tire of telling us, 18 championships and four European Cups on the shelves - rather than Chelsea - with two and none - who picked up the traditional British support for the underdog. But that's what money does for you. Money and Jose Mourinho.

Jim White, Daily Telegraph

 

The night - and maybe the football year - belonged to Benitez. As the Kop sang so passionately, it could not have been in better hands.

James Lawton, The Independent

 

I think for Liverpool supporters Tuesday night's victory is the best because it is happening now. They have tremendous memories of the great days but that was a long time ago. This has given them belief, hope and optimism for the future after a couple of years of under-achievement. They are in dreamland. We saw that at the final whistle. The atmosphere at Anfield on Tuesday night and for the quarter-final against Juventus was sensational - better than anything I experienced in my time as a player. Those people who said the supporters would be a 12th man were spot on. They are a great bunch of supporters, even though at times recently they might have been disenchanted. It is a fitting tribute to them that the team have got to the Champions League final.

Alan Hansen, Daily Telegraph

 

The Anfield people are back in the final 20 years after Heysel. The people, not only the team, because the magic of this stadium made the team. coached by the genius Rafa Benitez, unbeatable. Mourinho is the great loser ofthis tie but he remains a great figure. It was thanks to him that this game turned into a melodramatic battle between good and bad, rich and poor. Milan will not underestimate the great history and tradition Liverpool seem to take with them wherever they go to the soundtrack You'll Never Walk Alone.

Corriere dello Sport, Italy

 

Chelsea had 40,000 screaming fans to contend with. The noise level at Stamford Bridge for the first leg would probably have proked Roy Keane into a rant about the prawn sandwich brigade, but here the sandwich brigade, but here the atmosphere boomed into the Merseyside night air and a seething gallery became a sea of red and white.

Paul Joyce, Daily Express

 

The scenes at the end were incredible. Gerrard was last off the pitch having gone to all four sides in ecstatic celebration. For this particular observer, Anfield will always remain special having been generously clapped off the pitch when Arsenal won the title here in 1989. Not as special, mind, as for the boy from Huyton. How can he say goodbye now to his umbilical cord? Of all Liverpool's momentous results down the years, this one could prove one of the most crucial.

Alan Smith, Daily Telegraph

 

Liverpool are no longer the half-ignored club that has never won the Premiership and sweats even to finish fourth. This tournament has seen it embrace its former status. It is not sentimentality to declare that clubs can sometimes gain strength by drawing on the store of folk memories. "Respect for your elders gives you character," the message read on a banner in the stands. It could have sounded like a fortune cookie but the four pictures of the European Cup beneath gave it resonance. Considering the pride that Anfield took in the great displays of synchronised passing a generation ago there was a certain irony to the booing when Chelsea composed themselves by holding the ball but this was the moment for any Liverpool fan to be at his most partisan. The spectatorswere participants.

Kevin McCarra, The Guardian

 

It was a night that will be remembered by Liverpool on a par with St-Etienne in 1977 and the thrilling defeat of Roma three years ago and it means that in Istanbul on 25 May, they have a chance to win their fifth European Cup. The banner in the Kop that read "Make us Dream" might have been touched with the sentimentality to which Anfield is prone but now the home support have good reason to hope. It had been an affront to Anfield tradition that, winning the toss, John Terry chose to defend the goal in front of the Kop. But no one could have expected them to pay for it so quickly. Liverpool's first goal was not quite as swift as the John Arne Riise strike against Chelsea that took just 45 seconds of the Carling Cup final but it was equally devastating and its effect on the atmosphere in the old stadium was quite electrifying.

Sam Wallace, The Independent

 

Whatever they go on to achieve under Jose Mourinho, Chelsea and their billionaire owner learnt last night that there are some things money cannot buy. Four famous Scousers once sang that it can't buy you love, but add to that the type of passion that was required to propel Liverpool into their first European Cup final since 1985. Mourinho had shaken his head when asked whether the Kop could be the opposition's twelfth man, but instead they proved to be Liverpool's ninth, tenth and eleventh, inspiring players such as Djimi Traore and Igor Biscan to play like the immortals that they might now become.

Oliver Kay, The Times

 

It had been a start from the manual of Anfield dreams, ferocious, cyclonic, and there were, of course, those vast layers of keening noise that had to be anticipated from the moment Liverpool walked out of Stamford Bridge with more than a taste of the old glory.This wasn't the Reebok Stadium and a splash of champagne. This was place practised in grabbing you by the throat and, and if you are not utterly attuned, somewhere in rather lower regions. Chelsea were far from acclimatised.

James Lawton, The Independent

 

Anfield constructed three layers of defence last night. The first, the conventional back four, did everything that could have been expected of them, with Jamie Carragher again setting the tone. But those demands had already been reduced by the partnership of Didi Hamann and Igor Biscan in a front screen which gradually eroded the morale of Chelsea's forwards. And the third layer was formed by the 17,000 fans filling the old Kop and creating a steel wall of noise that surely kept out Eidur Gudjohnsen's blazing cross-shot in the sixth and final minute of stoppage time.

Richard Williams, The Guardian

 

We were promised Anfield's most memorable night in 20 years, and boy, we weren't left wanting. It was difficult not to get caught up in the atmosphere. Even Roman Abramovich, the Russian who has bankrolled Chelsea all the way to the Premiership title this season, was spotted clapping along enthusiastically to the Kop choir. It's the kind of support that no amount of Abramovich's billions can buy.

Ian Doyle, Daily Post

 

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/archivedirs...050505-1437.htm

 

Remembering that roar at the final whistle makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Perhaps even more than the recollection of the moment in Istanbul when Dudek made the final save and I lost my mind. I've been to hundreds of Liverpool games but that night on the Kop was beyond anything else I've experienced. This thread has inspired me to dig out the DVD yet again.

[Jeff guitar]

Thanks for the repost superb stuff.

[Edvard]

Anybody know where i may be able to download that game?

[DJS]

it still sends shudders down my spine when i think about it.

 

I read some quotes from terry and the ref about the atmosphere sometime afterwards. I saved them on my pc but unfortunately it blew up. Does anyone have a those quotes?

 

"But the Liverpool fans that night were amazing. I have never heard anything like it before and I don't think I ever will again. I walked out into that cauldron and heard that singing and saw that passion. The hairs on my arms were standing up."

- John Terry, Chelsea Club Captain

 

Meanwhile Mourinho has sent out a message to the Chelsea fans, saying they should get behind the team they way Liverpool fans do. Only 29,000 turned up to for Chelsea last home Champions League game, against Anderlecht.

 

Mourinho said "There is a lesson to be learned from Anfield. I'd never seen it before and i have to take my hat off to them. Liverpool were losing 4-1 at home and the Anfield fans were proudly singing the club's song. That's impressive"

Edited February 21, 2007 by Dj Sydney_A

[oojason]

Full Time YNWA vs Chelsea:-

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rvzBqXV69cM&amp...ted&search=

 

 

 

Does anyone have the full game on dvd and be willing to send me a copy? Will of course reimburse for the troubles.

[Big G Superhero]

Full Time YNWA vs Chelsea:-

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rvzBqXV69cM&amp...ted&search=

Does anyone have the full game on dvd and be willing to send me a copy? Will of course reimburse for the troubles.

 

Rarely at home at the mo but I might be able to, pretty sure I've got the whole coverage on DVD if it's not scratched... drop me an e-mail.

[Stew F]

In the words of Monty Python "You lucky lucky b******s"

I couldnt get a ticket for the semi.

I went to Juventus which was good and I was at the F.A. semi against Chelsea which was good. But the Chelsea semi just seemed another level.

Hats off to ya

[johngibo YPC]

I got my ticket on the day. Bloody lucky!

[owenthomas]

It was incredible, the place just had something different in the air as soon as you got to the ground. Cant explain it but it was amazing.

you're not wrong there mate.. i got in about half an hour before and it was bouncin' then.. i went through just about every emotion possible that night and at one point thought i was gonna have a heart attack! i was virtually on the line with Gudjohnsen when he shot at the end and i thought "thats in!".. it happened in slow motion too - i'm not kidding when i say that.. i didn't actually see that at normal speed.. i've never watched that game again since - i'd love too but i haven't got the bottle..

 

[oojason]

Rarely at home at the mo but I might be able to, pretty sure I've got the whole coverage on DVD if it's not scratched... drop me an e-mail.

 

 

Big G - many thanks mate - email sent your way

[AE]

It was a great night.

Stood in the KOP some 14 rows from the front, there was a wall of noise behind me.

Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine.

[Bigal]

I was sat in the upper tier of the anfield road that night, it was mental, bouncing before the game, during and after, what a night.

 

The main memory I have was some old fella infront of us, was supping out of his hipflask during the game, and he offered me some, I declined, and then in the second started smoking some blow. Offered me some, again declined.

 

He reminded me of that bit in airplane?.

[allez les rouges]

"But the Liverpool fans that night were amazing. I have never heard anything like it before and I don't think I ever will again. I walked out into that cauldron and heard that singing and saw that passion. The hairs on my arms were standing up."

- John Terry, Chelsea Club Captain

 

Meanwhile Mourinho has sent out a message to the Chelsea fans, saying they should get behind the team they way Liverpool fans do. Only 29,000 turned up to for Chelsea last home Champions League game, against Anderlecht.

 

Mourinho said "There is a lesson to be learned from Anfield. I'd never seen it before and i have to take my hat off to them. Liverpool were losing 4-1 at home and the Anfield fans were proudly singing the club's song. That's impressive"

 

thats the one. thanks very much

 

I remember the ref talking about it as well, and the fact he was about to aware a pen. Does anyone have that?

[StevieC]

"Liverpool United are quite a team"

 

 

Did that chubby Manc f*cker capitalise this or is that a typo?

[whitewidow]

Awesome quotes - sex wee inducing....

[Barnesy_10]

Remember that night well.... all the hype on here about how the atmosphere will be that night. Left work and headed to Anfield.. stuck in traffic Jams on Queens Drive, scarves being swung around out of car windows.... walking toward the ground was fantastic, we got into the ground at 7:15pm... and the atmosphere was incredible already... I remember the floor shaking. I was in Lower Centenary at the Kop End.. People had glazed eyes already from what they knew was going to be a great night, even before a ball was kicked. YNWA was incredible... my voice turned into a high pitched squeal... I had lost control of it..

Final Whistle just brought chaos... Me, my wife and my mate ended up three rows further down than we were sat... the whole lower centenary moved in unison with each other in elation... seeing the looks on our players faces and their appreciation for what teh fans did that night and vice versa was an incredible connection... seeing Gallas in tears, and Mourinho comforting each one of them in shock was fulfilling. Easily one of the best nights of my life.

[Paul_LFC]

I was in the lower cenny just like Barnesy and it was electric. Perfect conditions for a game of football. We were in the middle of Spring, wasn't too hot or too cold. I was in line with the goal line and I did see it pass the line just for that split second.

 

There was a fantastic rendition of FOAR at the end which I had on my old phone and it was deafening.

 

Seeing Terry cry was a nice cherry on top too.

 

Mourinho's quote is the best thing he has never done - 'I felt the power of Anfield Road tonight'

 

This page of extracts from articles from the papers praising the game and our supporters is class - http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/archivedirs...050505-1437.htm

[Knox_Harrington]

Remarkable night. The best of my life. All that just brings about such a visceral sense of pride and elation. There's a lot of people who like to say a lot of things about how when you get down to it a football crowd doesn't influence things much. To them there is one reply. Liverpool 1 Chelsea 0.

[BG]

Wasn't there something about Michael Robinson having to break off from presenting the Spanish coverage of the game because he was so moved by the intensity of the atmosphere?

[Dublinred4ever]

Whenever I tell someone that I was at the final in Istanbul, they always say it must have been amazing. And it was.

 

But I always tell them that to be on the Kop that night was even better.

 

They rarely believe me.

 

I guess you had to be there.