CL final of your choice

[SouthAfricaRed]

Er Liverpool. 3 times in 5 years if memory serves me correctly

Actually Twice

77,78,81

81,84,85

[Speedy]

Hm... I don't even know where to start. OK, here we go…

Quarter-finals: v. Real Madrid
L1: It has been quite a long time since we last played the so called “Galactico” or “White ballet” (=gay). The first leg is played at Santiago Bernabeu. Both sets of supporters are eagerly waiting for a kick-off, with Liverpudlians out-voicing the whole stadium.

The game starts with a cold shower for Liverpool after Fabio Cannavaro heads in from a corner, but the Reds respond quickly through Craig Bellamy, whose golf-club celebrations towards the referee earn him a yellow card.

In the second half, Liverpool are controlling the game with a massive 93% possession of the ball. They have 19 shots on goal with Crouch heading wide on 31 occasions. It’s 1-1. Liverpool have an away goal and it’s looking great.

L2: The return leg at Anfield is of course a special one. Usually it’s special because of the noise them fans can make, but this time it’s different! Because Liverpool have beaten Real Madrid in the European Cup final more than two decades ago, Alan Kennedy has the honour of singing the “UEFA Champions’ League official theme” in the middle of the park with Lady Helen of Anfield, just before the players come out.

The 12th man a.k.a. the fans are giving Real Madrid hard times and most of the “Galactico” looks totally fcuked! They constantly lose the possession, miss-hit the ball and almost every other pass goes back to the goalkeeper Iker Casillas – one is intercepted by Bellamy, who passes to Kuyt and he scores in an empty net. 1-0. The game is in injury time of the 1st half when Fabio Cannavaro is sent off for being the smallest player on the pitch.

The 2nd half is one of the most boring 45 minutes in history, but it is still entertaining to watch David Beckham on the bench doing his nails. 2-1 to Liverpool it is. We’re going to the semi-finals!

Semi-finals: v. Manchester United
L1: The first match is played at Anfield. Sir Fergie still doesn’t know who he’s playing in the semis, because he still doesn’t want to acknowledge Liverpools’ success in Europe. The Kop doesn’t let Liverpool Football Club down as it has all the banners them fans could find. The match was refereed by the one and only Mike Riley, so it was obvious that something will go wrong for Liverpool. And it did. 8 minutes from time, Cristiano Gaynaldo scuba dived in Liverpools’ penalty area (actually, he did the Gillardino) and mr. Riley immediately sent Sami Hyypiä off. Gary Neville stepped up to take the penalty to have the last revenge. His desire to upset Liverpudlians was so big that he slipped when he hit the ball, putting it horribly wide. The shame was horrendous for Garrrrrry and Liverpool supporters quick as a flash started to sing songs about him.

It was 91st minute and Momo Sissoko snatched the ball off Rooney and quickly passed it to Gerrard for a counter-attack. Gerrard found Robbie Fowler, a substitute, who came round the goalkeeper van der Saar to score the crucial goal for Liverpool. His celebrations were spoiled because Mike Riley becuase he disallowed a goal due to spotting something. After the match, he told the Sky Sports: “I don’t want to talk about “something”, but I will put it in my report!”

L2: With the goalless draw at Anfield, not many bookies gave Liverpool a chance. Old Toilet was packed to the last seat and it was all set for the biggest match in United’s history and a routine match for Liverpool. Oh my god, what the fcuk has just happened?! John O’Shea just scored a goal for the Scum and the whole place erupted! The camera were mainly focused on Sir Alex Ferguson and Darren Fletcher. They celebrated with their pants down and hugging each other like their lives depended on this!

With United almost making it to the final and United supporters chanting “Who are you? Who are you?”, out of nowhere comes Robbie Fowler and scores an equaliser in the 87th minute. He celebrates his goal running at the Manc supporters with a wank gesture. What a blow for Untied, so therefore we have 9 minutes of added time, but Liverpool hang on and qualify for the final in Athens.

After the match, Sir Alex Ferguson blames the referee for the defeat, saying: “I can’t believe the referee added just nine minutes!”

Final: v. Arsenal
Before the match Benitez gave this little short interview:

SSN: “Rafa, the biggest match of the season is here, how will you play against Arsenal?”
Rafa: “Like I always say, one game at the time. I don’t want to think about Arsenal at the moment, just the next game.”
SSN: “The Champions’ League final against Arsenal is the next game, Rafa.”
Rafa: “For sure?”
SSN: “Yes.”
Rafa: “We have many possibilities and Arsenal are a good team, but we have confidence and we will try to score and win.”

Also, before the match, Javier Mascherano gave an interview on the official Liverpoolfc dot tv site:

Interviewer: "Javier, are you confident in your own ability?"
Javier Mascherano: "El pene es como un soldado. Él siempre saluda!" (the .tv crew translated his line in to: "I love playing football. I played it since I was 3 years old and I’m a football fanatic. I am glad to play for Liverpool and I love training at Melwood. I can’t wait to play with world class players, like Zenden. My arm still hurts a bit, because Jermain Defoe had a little nibble, but I’ll be okay for the final. I am very happy here at Liverpool and I find people here very friendly. I was at the Virgin store the other day and everyone started clapping as I entered. It was fantastic. I know I’m small for a footy player, but then again, so is Luis Garcia. My family is quite big and I tend to have a family of my own as quick as possible. I think Greece is a special place and I think we’ll win the cup! Bring them on! We’re ready! Carra eyes the Premiership title! Four-midable Reds blunt Blades at Anfield!” (the rest of the interview can be found here)

So, the match starts (and it was refereed by the one and only Graham Poll). Liverpool fans produce such noise that the Gooners couldn’t even hear themselves breathe. Liverpool scored first through a Steven Gerrard penalty, after Peter Crouch was fouled by Abu Diaby (did you know that Abu Dhabi was named after this Arsenal player?). Arsene Wenger was furious with the fourth official and he called him: “****! ******* ** *** ****!!!”

Arsenal responded however with a trademark Thierry Henry strike that beat Pepe Reina. Arsene Wenger immediately took back his words and apologised to the 4th official.

It all looked like the game will be decided through penalty kicks. But Liverpool had other plans. With the Reds sick and tired of the same fookin song sang by Arsenal supporters for almost 120’ minutes, they wanted to shut their gobs as quick as possible.

Meanwhile, Arsene Wenger started to nag to the 4th official again so he called the police and they escorted the **** out. At the same time, Graham Poll showed 3rd yellow card to Thierry Henry and sent off Javier Mascherano, who was substituted 30 minutes ago and was showering himself at the moment of incident.

It was 117th minute and Steven Gerrard swung in a corner. He found Jamie Carragher at the back who made it 2 – 1! WE WON IT SIX TIMES!!!

It was a magical night for the Reds and the party continued looooooooooooong in to the night. It’s Liverpool 6, London 0.

I really hope you had nothing better to do with your time.

[Joe Le Toff]

[QUOTE=Mr Tourette;321150]Has to be beating united 1-0 in the final. gary neville scoring a 30 yard comedy own goal in the 6th minute of injury time to win no.6

Neville is so mercilessly barracked by the liverpool fans that he wades in - gets ****ted to within an inch of his life then gets band for a year for jumping in in the first place.

This scenario makes me feel a bit light headed....
QUOTE]

[Joe Le Toff]

Liverpool v Lyon for me.

Baros misses sitter after sitter all game, Fowler comes on in the 85th minute and with his first touch sticks no more than a half chance in the top corner to collect No 6 for the red men.

That'll do nicely.

[cobain]

I really hope you had nothing better to do with your time.

Nop. Girlfriend was sleeping and there was some Jean-Claude van Damme movie on TV... It was etiher this or sleeping.

[Los Rojos]

I hope we don't meet Chelsea or Manu.
I couldnt stand losing to any of them in a final.

Same here - I'd much rather other teams knock these pretenders out.

I suspect the 'dream' final for me would be to play either Lyon or Valencia in the final.

[jono]

Ideally I would like United to bow out now. Barring that I would like to beat Man U on the way to the final. Reason being the revenue generated as you progress. So to me its got to do with finance than anything else. United out now. I'm not too concerned who we meet in the final as long as beat them!

[shelly]

Indeed, but I mean in the modern Champions League era? No team has retained the trophy since Milan in late 80s, and only Madrid have won it on anything like a recurring basis in that time in 1998, 2000 and 2002.

Ac milan winners 2003; finalists 2005

but yes it would be difficult for any team to do that..

But anyways...
I want mancs out NOW! preferably against lille!
and no way I want inter to get to the final, cheating scum

Madrid would be nice? Milan would too but I fear they would take revenge...

[Kopite_Colin]

QF: Lyon or Real Madrid
SF: Chelsea (again)
Final: AC or Inter Milan (AC would be out for revenge)

[Guest]

Would like to draw United now ... Final or not.

[cobain]

Well, now that draw has been made, I'm quite certain that we'll play Scum in the final. There's no doubt in my mind there... We'll get to the final and Scum will cheat their way there, so...

I'll probably skip this game because I'll probably die of all the tension...