Liverpool V Inter

[allez les rouges]

just been watching the game on the TV. what stands out for me is the quality of the footy. really good. i was under the impression that football had developed so much since then, but watching this game its pretty much the same.

 

I was at chelsea 05 and 07 and i have never heard anyting like it my life. whether it be wembley, roma, barca, cardiff, istanbul, athens. The kop was physically shaking!!!!!! (no word of a lie!!)

 

but people say that this match was as good as, if not better than anything else heard at anfield. was anyone there? how did it compare? was it really that good?

 

 

go back to italy, go back to italy

[Sion]

that go back to italy chant is so atmospherically brilliant. Shame if it gets sung next week the bully boys on the kop would accelerate it ten times and make it sound s***.

[Mike]

inter were bribing every f***** in the 60's. horrible club with zero respect.

[allez les rouges]

inter were bribing every f***** in the 60's. horrible club with zero respect.

just listening to the reporter who uncovered it, brian granville. shocking.

[allez les rouges]

that go back to italy chant is so atmospherically brilliant. Shame if it gets sung next week the bully boys on the kop would accelerate it ten times and make it sound s***.

 

 

lets hope not.

[Mike]

just listening to the reporter who uncovered it, brian granville. shocking.

 

he wrote a book about it didn't he. think he wrote for gazetto in the 60's.

everyone knows about Inter being corrupt at that time though. they did it to more than just us.

horrible, contemptible club.

[allez les rouges]

he wrote a book about it didn't he. think he wrote for gazetto in the 60's.

everyone knows about Inter being corrupt at that time though. they did it to more than just us.

horrible, contemptible club.

 

weve waited a long time for revenge. lets f***ing give it to them.

[Guest sniffer]

just listening to the reporter who uncovered it, brian granville. shocking.

 

Yes, that programme on the LFC channel about the Inter Milan fix brought it all back to me. That programme should be required viewing for the whole Liverpool squad before they take the field next Tuesday.

[matty]

he wrote a book about it didn't he. think he wrote for gazetto in the 60's.

everyone knows about Inter being corrupt at that time though. they did it to more than just us.

horrible, contemptible club.

 

You kill me Greavsie.

[pipnasty]

Glanville is a c*** too

[madaboutlfc]

You kill me Greavsie.

inter are a club who brought negativity to the game with helenio herrera and his catenaccio tactics..

[floyd]

inter are a club who brought negativity to the game with helenio herrera and his catenaccio tactics..

 

That’s quite tame, considering what the older Liverpool fans think of them

Edited February 14, 2008 by floyd

[Mike]

You kill me Greavsie.

 

whats up duck? you know what im talking about?

[Mike]

then readers, i'll reveal why inter should be hated by any liverpool fan:

 

FOR Inter Milan fans, Massimo Moratti, the club president, can do nothing

right. At the San Siro they usually jeer him. While AC Milan, their eternal

city rivals, flaunt the European Cup, Inter have not won the scudetto, the

Italian title, since 1989, when they left Milan a dozen points behind.

 

Under the draconian managership of the flamboyant Helenio Herrera, the

European Cup was won twice, the scudetto four times. In the foyer of Inter's

training ground stands a bust of Angelo Moratti, below it a most effusive

eulogy. But when Keith Botsford, my American colleague, and I were

investigating what we called The Years of the Golden Fix, it transpired that

Inter's European victories of the 1960s were the fruit of bribery and

corruption in which Angelo Moratti played a crucial part in a process

implemented by two men also now dead: Dezso Solti, the Hungarian fixer, and

the serpentine Italo Allodi. Inter's secretary, he became general manager of

Juventus when we showed them to be guilty of an abortive attempt to "buy" a

Portuguese referee.

 

Three years in a row, Inter made offers to referees in the second legs of

European Cup semi-finals to be played at the San Siro and twice it worked,

in 1964 and 1965, when they went on to win the final. On the third occasion,

in 1966, Gyorgy Vadas, a brave Hungarian official, refused to be bribed.

Real Madrid held out and went on to lift the trophy.

 

In 1964, the sufferers were Borussia Dortmund, who had a key player sent

off. In 1965 it was Liverpool, victims of two dreadful decisions by Ortiz de

Mendibil, the Spaniard. Botsford and I knew that Vadas refused to be

tempted; getting him to talk years later was the problem.

 

Having flown to Budapest, we at last managed to meet him in the dim

cafeteria of Radio Budapest, where everybody involved in Hungarian football,

good guys and bad, seemed to be working. Large, good-natured, anxious, he

refused to talk; he had plainly suffered enough. Not another international

match would he get after that night. It was left to Peter Borenich, a

talented, persistent young local journalist, to get him to speak and publish

what he said in Only The Ball Has A Skin.

 

Solti had been with him and his linesman, Vadas said, from morning to night.

When they were alone in his hotel room, Solti offered him enough money to

buy five Mercedes if he bent the match for Inter, payable in dollars -

double if Inter won on a late penalty, five times as much were they to win

by a penalty in extra time.

 

On the morning of the match, Vadas and his linesman were invited to Angelo

Moratti's villa for lunch. He at once gave each a gold watch. During the

meal he told Solti to buy them colour television sets and a host of

electrical appliances. But Vadas refereed the match impeccably. At

half-time, Solti invaded his dressing-room, ranting that he had failed to

give three penalties. At 5am the next day, Solti phoned his friend, Gyorgy

Honti, secretary of the Hungarian football federation, to tell him that

Vadas had cheated Inter out of the match. Back in Budapest, Vadas was faced

by an outraged Honti.

Yet Angelo Moratti is still revered.

[miceal]

The fans love us for Istanbul. They probably don't remember 1965 so well. Went there to watch them v Fiorentina in a league game the season after Istanbul and the wife wore her LFC shirt. We were treated like heroes.

 

They are currently having a new load of ref-bribery allegations made against them after some recent dodgy decisions. The good thing is that, since the draw was made, they have been losing form week by week. If we had played them back then Ibrahimovic would have beaten us without the need for anything more than one-touch training ground contributions from his team mates. As it stands now, I'm beginning to get optimistic again. Was talking to some Juve fans in Italy at new year and they said the one team all the Italians dreaded getting was us (they obviously don't follow the premier league too closely). And they were certain we will beat Inter. That may have beeen bravado, but I think we will win. God knows we need something to go right.

Edited February 14, 2008 by miceal

[Tetti]

Ive been having a bit of fun over on one of their sites. They really hate Bilan and the Gobbi and love is for Istanbul. They quote the date just like we do.

 

Seem like a very decent bunch so far.

 

Now I just need to find out how old they all are.

Edited February 14, 2008 by Tetti

[matty]

then readers, i'll reveal why inter should be hated by any liverpool fan:

 

FOR Inter Milan fans, Massimo Moratti, the club president, can do nothing

right. At the San Siro they usually jeer him. While AC Milan, their eternal

city rivals, flaunt the European Cup, Inter have not won the scudetto, the

Italian title, since 1989, when they left Milan a dozen points behind.

It's out of date.

 

There's no evidence Inter bribed anyone. They may have done, but so did virtually all continental European teams at some stage or other. No football club is untouched by allegations of such things. Hello Bruce Grobelaar.

 

It's a pity it was us who suffered at that point, we've made up for it since. And there are other teams far more in need of our hatred. Real, who are only anything thanks to a fascist dictator, Juve, Milan...

[matty]

They are currently having a new load of ref-bribery allegations made against them after some recent dodgy decisions. The good thing is that, since the draw was made, they have been losing form week by week. If we had played them back then Ibrahimovic would have beaten us without the need for anything more than one-touch training ground contributions from his team mates. As it stands now, I'm beginning to get optimistic again. Was talking to some Juve fans in Italy at new year and they said the one team all the Italians dreaded getting was us (they obviously don't follow the premier league too closely). And they were certain we will beat Inter. That may have beeen bravado, but I think we will win. God knows we need something to go right.

 

There are no bribery allegations, there is some sh*t knocking about because Inter are unbeaten all season and Juve and Milan have been playing sh*t. Inter have had some unconvincing performances in the last few weeks as they had players sent off early in matches in 3 out of 4 games, hardly the work of bribed refs. Inter have also had a very bad season for injuries with Materazzi, Vieira, Samuel, Figo, Stankovic, Crespo all out for long stretches.

 

They aren't unbeatable, and they've no record of European success recently to show they can win consistently over two legs like us. However, they've got a lot of top players and are streets ahead in Italy.

[realtarragona]

There's no evidence Inter bribed anyone.

 

Didn't the referee admit it?

[Frosty Jack]

They aren't unbeatable, and they've no record of European success recently to show they can win consistently over two legs like us. However, they've got a lot of top players and are streets ahead in Italy.

 

It's going to be an interesting contest, if we have our best players available I think we can beat them over 2 legs, perhaps without.

In Italy I can't see anybody seriously challenging them for a couple of seasons if the setup remains as it is. Milan just don't seem to be set up for the league any more, Juventus will challenge again before they do.

[Mike]

It's out of date.

 

There's no evidence Inter bribed anyone. They may have done, but so did virtually all continental European teams at some stage or other. No football club is untouched by allegations of such things. Hello Bruce Grobelaar.

 

It's a pity it was us who suffered at that point, we've made up for it since. And there are other teams far more in need of our hatred. Real, who are only anything thanks to a fascist dictator, Juve, Milan...

 

when the article was written is irrelevant. weak subtefuge matty.

 

there is no evidence inter bribed anyone???

hellooooooo

[matty]

It's going to be an interesting contest, if we have our best players available I think we can beat them over 2 legs, perhaps without.

In Italy I can't see anybody seriously challenging them for a couple of seasons if the setup remains as it is. Milan just don't seem to be set up for the league any more, Juventus will challenge again before they do.

 

Agree completely.

 

Calciopoli has worked totally in their faviour (justly). It's finally given the club some confidence in themselves, and Moratti seems to have settled down from the period when he had to buy four central midfielders in a close season, or four wingers, or 3 left backs.

Milan's ageing team went on too long - maybe fooled by success in Europe thinking they would be ok at home.

 

Elkann is going to have to get some money into Juve to get them back up top. Spalletti's done really well at Roma, and overall the league is pretty competitive. Apart from Inter.

[matty]

when the article was written is irrelevant. weak subtefuge matty.

 

there is no evidence inter bribed anyone???

hellooooooo

Your unsourced article, that implies strongly that actually the Hungarian guy was intent on betting on the result? Why pay double if Inter won on a penalty than if they won any other way? Betting. Not Inter. And Italian clubs (and others) have been giving watches to refs for about 80 years.

 

You'll have to do better than that Inspector Morse.

[Mike]

Your unsourced article, that implies strongly that actually the Hungarian guy was intent on betting on the result? Why pay double if Inter won on a penalty than if they won any other way? Betting. Not Inter. And Italian clubs (and others) have been giving watches to refs for about 80 years.

 

You'll have to do better than that Inspector Morse.

 

eh? its from the book by brian glanville

[fyds]

Your unsourced article, that implies strongly that actually the Hungarian guy was intent on betting on the result? Why pay double if Inter won on a penalty than if they won any other way? Betting. Not Inter. And Italian clubs (and others) have been giving watches to refs for about 80 years.

 

You'll have to do better than that Inspector Morse.

It's when these watches turn out to bbe cunningly disguised keys that open the front doors of mansions in the Tuscan Hills or Dolomites we have to worry.