on this day

[smithdown]

Happy 25th of May, y'all.

 

Two European Cup wins and I was at both so I tend to think I'm great when this day comes around.

 

Do yourself a favour and drift off for a while.

[sutty]

Happy 25th of May, y'all.

 

Two European Cup wins and I was at both so I tend to think I'm great when this day comes around.

 

Do yourself a favour and drift off for a while.

 

This time 6 years ago I was asleep in a hotel having got absolutely batter on stupid cocktails. I think I didn't wake up til about 2ish on the day of the game.

 

What a trip. Even murph and gravy being there didn't spoil it. Because we lost them

[johngibo YPC]

I was on the plane out there. Wished i'd have stayed for longer, but you can't change anything really

[smithdown]

This time six years ago I was falling off a coach that had taken us across twelve hours and three breakdowns across a desert, across the Bosphorus and dropped us by a square where there was all this red and white and all this singing.

 

We'd got a coach from Bodrum and at each scheduled stop there were streams of ther coaches all through the night, and each had half a coach of locals and half filled with reds. The Turkish were all sleeping and the reds were half demented wondering where they were and where they were going. Nobody talked about football, just getting there, just to be part of it. Everyone had their serious head on. "We'll get there.", was all that anyone really had to say as we nodded to each other at five in the morning outside a cafe in the middle of wherever we were.

 

It was good.

[_00_deathscar]

It was A-Level exam time. I didn't care.

 

What a night.

[sutty]

I was on the plane out there. Wished i'd have stayed for longer, but you can't change anything really

The genius thing about the night before the game is that we went out and said "3 or 4 pints only, want to be on form for tomorrow"

 

4am, running up and down with flags and s***

[johngibo YPC]

The genius thing about the night before the game is that we went out and said "3 or 4 pints only, want to be on form for tomorrow"

 

4am, running up and down with flags and s***

 

Yeah my lot all said that

At 3am they got tear gassed

[Jonesy]

I was in a hotel room with Big Wayne. I had my ticket in my trainer and my trainer was under the bed leg nearest the wall and furthest from door! I had a mild hangover

 

 

[Molby]

The genius thing about the night before the game is that we went out and said "3 or 4 pints only, want to be on form for tomorrow"

 

4am, running up and down with flags and s***

 

 

cracking meal iirc

 

your lady fell of her chair so gracefully that I genuinely thought it was a medical incident rather than booze-induced...and this was only during dinner - stupid cocktails started later on

[Antynwa]

This time 6 years ago I had my Liverpool top underneath my school top. Was sweating cobs in school, everyone had Liverpool gear on, even the teachers.

 

I remember bringing my PSP which I imported from Japan and playing all sorts of Liverpool songs on it, how I was never robbed I don't know. Remember walking home and getting changed, keeping the same sweat ridden top on. Walked to the local park, got bottles of coke in and had a game of football.

 

Walked back to my friends house, and there was about 10 of us in one room, we had a rendition of YNWA. Anyway everyone knows what happened, at half time my best mate was in tears. I funnily enough was highly optimistic, i said to everyone we'd win, not because I thought we would, but because I was just chuffed to have made a final we should never have made.

 

It was just chaos my levi's where soacked to the core in sweat, come penalties I had my arms around my mate's Mum whilst he stood outside with his back turned. I was the only lad in the room that time, and when they missed the first pen the little girl infront of me started celebrating so I shouted 'DON'T CELEBRATE IT'S NOT OVER YET FFS' She was only about 7 and I was kicking off like no ones business.

 

When we won it, it was just chaos, I was running down the street with my top off and genuinely going crazy. I recall being so emotionally drained I sat in the front room whilst everyone was back outside just watching us lift the cup, it was surreal, I said we'd win it at half time but I never truly believed it.

 

About an hour or two later my mates mum dropped me home at mine, me Mum greeted me at the door and it was just fantastic. I stayed up all night, and went to bed about 3. All I could hear down the street was 'Rafa Rafael Rafael Benitez' and the odd rendition of YNWA every few minutes.

 

Got up the next morning ready for school, was the greatest feeling of all time. Walked into class and this bitter turned around and said 'Didn't you ave that top on yesterday yer biff, any need?' So I just laughed and got on with my Day.

 

Walking home my Dad picked me up fresh from coming home from Istanbul, then we went the parade.

[smithdown]

We'd picked up a stray along the way. His name was Freddie and he'd been to every other final, so he got our spare. He was in his fifties and looked like a proper scouser. He tagged along for the coach ride and had us all in bulk. He was drinking some local gear that, when mixed with coke, turned into a light grey mud. He didn't sleep a wink on the journey either. He kept going all through the night and showed he was made of the right stuff right up until the point, almost six years ago exactly to the minute, when he suddenly shat himself. Not loads like but enough of a squirt for his bottle to go. He wasn't happy and neither were we, to be fair. He wanted to be given our big Turkish flag to wrap round him til he went and sorted himself out but that wouldn't have been a good idea.

[Molby]

We'd picked up a stray along the way. His name was Freddie and he'd been to every other final, so he got our spare. He was in his fifties and looked like a proper scouser. He tagged along for the coach ride and had us all in bulk. He was drinking some local gear that, when mixed with coke, turned into a light grey mud. He didn't sleep a wink on the journey either. He kept going all through the night and showed he was made of the right stuff right up until the point, almost six years ago exactly to the minute, when he suddenly shat himself. Not loads like but enough of a squirt for his bottle to go. He wasn't happy and neither were we, to be fair. He wanted to be given our big Turkish flag to wrap round him til he went and sorted himself out but that wouldn't have been a good idea.

 

 

ha ha

 

sounds like Raki - got fairly well acquainted with it myself tbf

[Murphman]

This time 6 years ago I was asleep in a hotel having got absolutely batter on stupid cocktails. I think I didn't wake up til about 2ish on the day of the game.

 

What a trip. Even murph and gravy being there didn't spoil it. Because we lost them

 

 

We didn't take much losing I can assure you.

[Swan Red]

The genius thing about the night before the game is that we went out and said "3 or 4 pints only, want to be on form for tomorrow"

 

4am, running up and down with flags and s***

 

I'm blaming Molby!

 

I was trying to convince Matty that a sorter would just be the thing after the night before Thaksim was already getting pretty busy. Like I think given the stuff that happened on that trip we had to win the game, still not sure how the f*** we did mind.

[smithdown]

I don't recall being as sympathetic as the others. I felt he was letting us down with his following through. Might have said something like 'we haven't come all this way to sh*t our keks, Freddie, ffs, it's the European Cup Final'

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

I don't recall being as sympathetic as the others. I felt he was letting us down with his following through. Might have said something like 'we haven't come all this way to sh*t our keks, Freddie, ffs, it's the European Cup Final'

 

haha!

[sutty]

ha ha

 

sounds like Raki - got fairly well acquainted with it myself tbf

 

 

You chundered on the plane.

 

"Will the person who bought the scimitar on board please give it to the pilot to keep in the cockpit"

 

cracking meal iirc

 

your lady fell of her chair so gracefully that I genuinely thought it was a medical incident rather than booze-induced...and this was only during dinner - stupid cocktails started later on

 

 

Yeah it was a great meal. And I spilled the contents of a Humidor on the table. Boss night though....

 

Chelsea knockout cocktails tonight

[Jonesy]

ha ha

 

sounds like Raki - got fairly well acquainted with it myself tbf

 

 

I bumped into you and Mike before I went in and took a rather large gulp......gulps out of a bottle that Mike was carrying with him. I went into the ground like the Ready brek kid.

[sutty]

Vic took a couple of Garys on the way to the game. Garys. At a european cup final. I ask you.

[Bigal]

I didnt go, thanks to moving into a flat with then ex. The second biggest regret of my life.

 

The first being said ex.

[sutty]

I didnt go, thanks to moving into a flat with then ex. The second biggest regret of my life.

 

The first being said ex.

 

 

If it's any consolation, I did tell you to go anyway and leave her back there.

[Bigal]

If it's any consolation, I did tell you to go anyway and leave her back there.

 

You did.

 

I couldnt, having out a sizable deposit on the f***ing flat being the issue.

 

watched it at mum and dads.

[Jonesy]

Vic took a couple of Garys on the way to the game. Garys. At a european cup final. I ask you.

 

he offered me one. The only time I've said no ......I think.

[Gunga Din]

i never had a single drink on the day of the final. not one. good decision looking back. was absolutely smashed the night before. we drank the place dry

[Swan Red]

In fairness I didn't quite realise how close it was to kick off and when the lads offered me them it seemed rather sly to pocket them for later.