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Meh. It's the s***est contest in the history of sport.

Is he playing? I thought he'd retired.

Is this the match thread then?

I was on the Kop for that game. We played towards us in the 1st half and it was 3-0 at half time. We were awesome, or so it seemed to this 15-year-old. Sorry, DH but Whelan's curler was to win the 1983 League Cup Final. How could I forget my first time at Wembley!! My own personal favourite from the 1977 FA Cup Semi against Everton: Keegan, McDermot....Oh that was beautiful.

Do you mean Saturday 3rd or Sunday 4th May? Just wondering cos I'll be around but can't come of it's Sunday 4th May.

I was on my year abroad in Italy as part of my uni course and so wasn't there. I had been there in 1988 though, with Molby and David Hodgson, and I remember that being a frightening enough experience by itself. We were in the lefthand central pen as you look at the stand from the pitch. Although having said that, the fear, if that's the word, only materialised with hindsight. At the time it just seemed like another big game with a packed crowd. At the time I still only had a slight build and it was "normal" for me to feel slightly crushed/unsafe when standing at all big games with a capacity crowd. In 1989 I was watching sport on telly in the student halls when the news came thorugh. The full enormity of events only really hit me the following day when firstly my Mum called to say that Molby had phoned to say him and DH were safe and then when I saw the lunchtime TV news. I don't wish to sound crass, but although I wasn't physically at Hillsborough in 1989 I still feel like a survivor becasue I definitely would have been there if I'd been in the UK.

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No. Juventus won their first European Cup/CL at Heysel.

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You are ubiquitous, Rory!

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f***ing skytv c****. I manage to get home 2 or 3 times a year, had this all planned around the game being on saturday given I've got committments sunday and monday. f*** off sky, f*** off modern football. I'm f***ing fuming, if you hadn't realised already.

And in Italy.

I saw the interview too, having seen the post-Inter stuff, and IMHO his Italian was the same level as usual. As for verbal masturbation over Manure, my take on Sky Italia's approach to English teams is that they love them all just as they love the English game. If anything they cream themselves over Chelsea, mainly due to the Italian connections over the last 10 years I reckon Where are you, robsmart?

Shankly created Liverpool, combining genius, wit, psychology, passion and iron-smelting. He believed in being first or nowhere. What he believed, his players believed, and Smith deferred to no man in his faith. Even when Emlyn Hughes replaced him as captain in 1974, and he could not bear to talk to the man, they played together in harmony on the pitch. "It was my club. I'd been there a damn sight longer than him. advertisement "Everything in my life was football, especially Liverpool, so why should I let this two-faced little so-and-so spoil my football life? But I did not entertain him, or speak to him off the pitch. Never." Their mutual loathing had been cemented earlier when Smith alleges that Hughes told him that a number Arsenal players were willing to throw a match for £50 a man. "I'd take a lie-detector test. He did say that, but I thought he might have been trying to set me up. I was that disgusted I didn't tell anyone except Ian Callaghan. From then on, I disliked him that much and he disliked me that much. As a footballer, he was very good. As a person, he wasn't." SOURCE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtm....xml&page=3

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