Weird s*** you remember about Istanbul

[_00_deathscar]

Bear with me here - I'm bored at work.

 

Gerrard's captain's armband kept slipping off.

[Cobs]

Smicer scoring

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Fella climbing the light in the carpark

[Jonesy]

A pissed up red stumbling about the square and TV crew filming his every move trying to goad into kicking off.

[smithdown]

Bear with me here - I'm bored at work.

 

Gerrard's captain's armband kept slipping off.

 

 

someone said he was in position for his goal because of that - made a run, stopped, pulled his armband back up, looked up, oh here's the cross, get in

 

trying to sing "champions league, we're having a laugh" with nothing like any voice left as Cisse danced around the trophy

[Maldini]

The only food we could find in the place was Magnum ice-creams.

The calf bruises.

Seeing a guy with a machete in his back running down the road away from an angry shopkeeper as we made our way into town from the airport on the bus.

[Mike]

The Amstel truck turned up fully loaded with alcohol free beer.

[Cobs]

The stage is about to collapse...

[NeilR]

Watching it on TV with my dad, who doesn't really follow football (but still hates utd), and just looking over at him soon after we equalised and he was sitting there just shaking his head in disbelief at what had just happened. He was well caught up in it. Looked shell shocked in a good way.

[LondonLiverpoolFan]

Me blagging a programme from one of the VIP sections....

[Guy_Incognito]

Fella climbing the light in the carpark

 

I was gonna say that. Was more tense than the pennos, that! And then a pissed up fella trying the same and getting about 6ft up before being persuaded to get back down by his mates.

[cymrococh]

Gilps, Nathan Explosion and I took our tops off.

 

It must have been really hot, but looking back it was really weird.

[DazzlaJ]

I fell off a bar stool after Dudeks double save from Schevchenko

[amokop]

Tree Boy, from Taksim Square, how he survived that fall I will never know. Locals dragging plastic dustbins around full of ice and Efes. The Malcolm Glazer look a like who had no idea why he was being treated like a celebrity (as we all thought he would bankrupt that lot any day at the time!) Pissed up fella who fell face first into the seat infront and smashed his nose, being led out of the stadium BEFORE kick off.

[Earl Hafler]

someone said he was in position for his goal because of that - made a run, stopped, pulled his armband back up, looked up, oh here's the cross, get in

 

 

He's looking at Riise for the second cross as he pulls his armband up. He was already there for the one that was blocked.

[Hieronymus Bosch]

Trotting about a Turkish bath in platform clogs at 6am after a celebratory night on the booze.

[Ant]

After watching the game in my friends house with all his family and our close friends. Being the only one in the house watching them lift the club

[Earl Hafler]

I fell off a bar stool after Dudeks double save from Schevchenko

 

My mate jumped up when Xabi hit the rebound in and landed legs either side of the back of a chair. Nuts !

[Frosty Jack]

I recall a gentleman with ginger handlebar moustache, covered with tattoos.

He turned to me at the urinals prior to the game, sneered "f***ing Turk", and urinated on my scarf.

 

[Raj]

A pissed up red stumbling about the square and TV crew filming his every move trying to goad into kicking off.

 

Yeah, i'd forgotten about that

[impware]

My mate jumped up when Xabi hit the rebound in and landed legs either side of the back of a chair. Nuts !

 

When that happened I fell over and broke a rib. Watched the rest of the game in agony, almost unable to move, then when Dudek saved the last pen I forgot the pain and was jumping and running around hugging people like a madman. Next day was painful...

[johngibo YPC]

Getting thrown off an LFC staff bus up to the ground by the witches from the Ticket Office

Buying our taxi driver 20 ciggies on the way to the ground

[matty]

'Are you having some of that?!'

'We're not having any of that!'

 

It being freezing cold inside the ground.

 

James A, ashen-faced when he realised all the programmes had been nicked.

 

The stink in Sutty's hotel room the morning after the match.

[Cobs]

'Are you having some of that?!'

'We're not having any of that!'

 

 

 

a classic - along with "Your leg, you've got piss down your leg, you've got piss down your leg, you've got piss down your leg..."

[Spike]

Slapnuts turning up late to the hotel as he'd had a roofie off his cabbie. Also for some reason I woke up on the day of the match with a car ashtray in my pocket.

 

Also, mini Pavarotti hanging out with us whilst we sang about him