Peter Frojdfeldt of Sweden will referee our Champions League quarter-final 2nd leg tie against Arsenal on Tuesday night.

Peter is Sweden's referee for the forthcoming EURO 2008 tournament in Austria and Switzerland this summer. His assistants on Tuesday will also be with him for the competition. The tournament will be his first and his last due to his retirement from international football at the end of this year.

He is now into his fifth season refereeing Champions League and has nearly twenty games under his belt since his debut in September 2003 when Dinamo Kiev beat Lokomotive Moscow 2-0.

In November last year he was the referee when Croatia ended England's EURO 2008 hopes with a 3-2 win at Wembley.
He has refereed Liverpool once before in Europe, back in March 2004 when we defeated Levski Sofia 4-2 in Bulgaria in the UEFA Cup. However, he has already taken charge of Arsenal three times in the Champions League previously, including their 3-0 group win at home against Seville back in September. The other two games also ended up with Arsenal wins, 2-1 at SV Hamburg in September 2006 and a 2-0 win against Juventus at Highbury in March the same year.

The 44-year old from Eskilstuna, the same town that produced former Arsenal player Sebastian Larsson who joined Birmingham City from the Gunners on a 4-year deal in January last year. He was a former ‘bandy' player back in Sweden before his father-in-law asked him to step in at the last minute to referee a minor league game. He was hooked from that moment and finally made his debut in Sweden's top league in 1997. In 2005 he was voted Sweden's top referee and took over the number one spot after Anders Frisk retired due to death threats.

His assistants are Stefan Wittberg and Henrik Andren with Martin Ingvarsson as the fourth official.

Some memorable matches involving Liverpool and Swedish referees:

10th April 1973 (B. Loow) - Alec Lindsay gives us a vital one goal lead against Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Cup semi-final.

6th December 1977 (U. Eriksson) - Kevin Keegan's Hamburg are hammered 6-0 in the 2nd leg of the Super Cup.

30th May 1984 (E. Fredrickson) - Roma are defeated in their own back yard as we claim our fourth European Cup.

3rd April 2002 (A. Frisk) - A Sami Hyypia strike gives us a slender lead to take to Leverkusen in the Champions League.

3rd March 2004 (P.Frojdfeldt) - Michael Owen scores his last goal in Europe for Liverpool in a 4-2 win at Levski Sofia.