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Chelsea v Bayern Munich (CL Final) 19/05/12 KO 19:45 BST

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1 hour ago, EdinburghBlue said:

Thanks mate, that would line up with when our twitter posted this...

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So I just wanted to reaffirm that I had the right time in mind! Cheers!

You're welcome mate. It was a late night. I must have left the ground at about midnight U.K. time. Then to the coach for a long journey home. Not much sleep that weekend. Lots of beer though!

    • 4 months later...
    • 3 weeks later...

    I just don't understand how the mind works: we're several years on, I know what's going to happen, and I still feel anxious after Bayern score, still can't stop grinning when DD scores, still think Luiz is going to sky his penalty, and finally still get goosebumps and ever so slightly teary eyed.

    22 minutes ago, Valerie said:

    I just don't understand how the mind works: we're several years on, I know what's going to happen, and I still feel anxious after Bayern score, still can't stop grinning when DD scores, still think Luiz is going to sky his penalty, and finally still get goosebumps and ever so slightly teary eyed.

     I'm shattered every single time I watch the highlights of the game...:biggrin:

    • 4 weeks later...

    Has any team defied the odds in a champions league semi-final AND final in such a way? Coming from behind away from home in Barcelona and Munich,.

    Liverpools 2nd leg semi-final miracle against Barca last season was at Anfield, followed by a dull final. The 2005 final they won after the ghost goal in the 2nd leg at Anfield against us. 

    39 minutes ago, coco said:

    Has any team defied the odds in a champions league semi-final AND final in such a way? Coming from behind away from home in Barcelona and Munich,.

    Liverpools 2nd leg semi-final miracle against Barca last season was at Anfield, followed by a dull final. The 2005 final they won after the ghost goal in the 2nd leg at Anfield against us. 

    I know it's a bit cliche but what happened on the entire run was written. A declined old guard, prime players that just didn't cut it reliteve to the very top level and Robbie as manager (I love him but he isn't a good manager at this level), the whole thing was madness and perfect karma for what happened before (although there will always be the unfortunate stigma for Ballack and Joe Cole especially who missed out and weren't around when the time came). 

    It's still surreal how we pulled off a miracle in 2012. Finally, the gods were on our side after years of near misses.

    Between 2004-2009, we made the semis on five out of six occasions when the old guard was peaking so it was a travesty we never won it at least once in those years yet an average Liverpool team had won it in 2005 and made the final again in 2007.

    It was pleasing to see the majority of the old guard be crowned as CL winners. I see the 2012 final as the end of the old guard as we knew it and the beginning of a new era led by Hazard and co.

    5 hours ago, Jezz said:

    It's still surreal how we pulled off a miracle in 2012. Finally, the gods were on our side after years of near misses.

    Between 2004-2009, we made the semis on five out of six occasions when the old guard was peaking so it was a travesty we never won it at least once in those years yet an average Liverpool team had won it in 2005 and made the final again in 2007.

    It was pleasing to see the majority of the old guard be crowned as CL winners. I see the 2012 final as the end of the old guard as we knew it and the beginning of a new era led by Hazard and co.

    They had got bored of shafting us repeatedly.

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    On 09/01/2020 at 13:39, Argo said:

    I know it's a bit cliche but what happened on the entire run was written. A declined old guard, prime players that just didn't cut it reliteve to the very top level and Robbie as manager (I love him but he isn't a good manager at this level), the whole thing was madness and perfect karma for what happened before (although there will always be the unfortunate stigma for Ballack and Joe Cole especially who missed out and weren't around when the time came). 

    Everything that happened was really a great tale of legendary men that never stopped believing. The never ending will to keep going and to never see a defeat as a possible reality, the unbreakable resilience after every hearbreaking moment prior to that season...just legendary stuff.

    And that's from the moment the knockout phase started, the amazing turnaround against Napoli to make it 5:4 overall in extra time...The great counter attack by Meireles that sealed the deal against Benfica as an extra weight as he used to play for Porto...then the biggest revenge against Barcelona(Uefalona) that stole so much from us in the years before and even when they secured the ref to get Terry out of the match, they couldn't break the team and Messi never scored a goal to our best generation, that night in Spain was poetry of some sort, a real sense of justice...

    42 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

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    Everything that happened was really a great tale of legendary men that never stopped believing. The never ending will to keep going and to never see a defeat as a possible reality, the unbreakable resilience after every hearbreaking moment prior to that season...just legendary stuff.

    And that's from the moment the knockout phase started, the amazing turnaround against Napoli to make it 5:4 overall in extra time...The great counter attack by Meireles that sealed the deal against Benfica as an extra weight as he used to play for Porto...then the biggest revenge against Barcelona(Uefalona) that stole so much from us in the years before and even when they secured the ref to get Terry out of the match, they couldn't break the team and Messi never scored a goal to our best generation, that night in Spain was poetry of some sort, a real sense of justice...

    That is when I thought it might be our year.

    • 1 month later...
    On 11/01/2020 at 02:45, Gol15 said:

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    Everything that happened was really a great tale of legendary men that never stopped believing. The never ending will to keep going and to never see a defeat as a possible reality, the unbreakable resilience after every hearbreaking moment prior to that season...just legendary stuff.

    And that's from the moment the knockout phase started, the amazing turnaround against Napoli to make it 5:4 overall in extra time...The great counter attack by Meireles that sealed the deal against Benfica as an extra weight as he used to play for Porto...then the biggest revenge against Barcelona(Uefalona) that stole so much from us in the years before and even when they secured the ref to get Terry out of the match, they couldn't break the team and Messi never scored a goal to our best generation, that night in Spain was poetry of some sort, a real sense of justice...

    Not to mention that the final nail in the coffin at the Nou Camp was delivered by our most underperforming striker at the time, the boy (El Nino) from Madrid who scored through the most unbelievable chance created out of nothing, ran half the field and slotted past the best team in the world at the time. 

    Then we went up against the next treble winner at their home ground for the final. Muller scored breaking Chelsea hearts the world over, only for Torres again to fight all the way for a corner which ended up to be one of the greatest comeback story by one header from a certain Dider Drogba. Former player Robben missed a penalty in extra time then Chelsea had to go to a penalty shootout. In Bayern's home turf. The Allianz Arena. Germany. And we beat a German team on penalties.

    You can't write a better story than that. As a certain Neville said, it was written in the stars

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