Author Topic: WERE YOU IN DORTMUND IN 2001? (Read 12356 times)

PaulR · « **on:** April 30, 2009, 02:11:26 pm »

LFC TV is looking to speak to any Reds supporters who travelled to Dortmund to attend Liverpool's UEFA Cup final against Alaves in May 2001, our first European final since Heysel in 1985.

The club television channel is looking to make 'Dortmund '01: The Fans Story', a new three-hour show about possibly the greatest UEFA Cup final ever.

The game ended with Liverpool winning on the Golden Goal rule but the score line was only part of the story. The whole trip to Germany was an amazining experience for supporters as both sets of supporters mixed freely before, during and after the final and the Liverpool fans were praised by UEFA for their behaviour.

'Dortmund '01: The Fans Story' will see three supporters talk about the route to the final, their trip to Dortmund, their own tales of what the final meant to them personally and obviously the match itself.

If you were there and would like to talk about your experiences of the 2001 UEFA Cup final on LFC TV, please get in touch via email to admin@liverpoolfc.tv with a few lines about why you'd make a great guest on the show and what your experiences of the trip were together with some contact details and we'll get back in touch.

email: admin@liverpoolfc.tv

Thanks

Paul

reddav72 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:20:17 pm »

yes i was, and i think my top might just be dry by now!!!

Chinbits · « **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:23:34 pm »

I was there and had an amazing time. Rome in the earlier round was my first European away trip and was pretty hardcore. Jumped up to celebrate Owen's first and smacked my head against the bloke behind me's teeth and split my head open.

INABITSKI · « **Reply #3 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:29:18 pm »

Great game and great all day piss up with the Alaves supporters and the odd German Dortmund fan who came to gatecrash

Remember a couple of lads swapping shirts before the game, with them circling on there shirts where they had there name printed as they were season ticket holders.

Chinbits · « **Reply #4 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:31:34 pm »

Was it Cast that got on stage too? I was pretty pissed because I'd been drinking since 7 in the morning at the airport.

gerrardisgod · « **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:35:12 pm »

Rain, the city square taken over by Reds, a bird flashing on some balcony of a hotel room, John Power on stage and Dr Fun too, more rain, a great atmosphere between both sets of fans, some blow-up lifesize table football game outside the ground, more rain, getting Lineker, Hansen and Lawrenson to look uncomfortable in the studio whilst taking a photo and the greatest game I'll ever go to.

Great times.

Torben Piechniks Y-Fronts · « **Reply #6 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:51:47 pm »

Austinkopite4eva · « **Reply #7 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:56:05 pm »

I was there travelled by coach and ferry what a journey. Yeah it was cast on the stage n the middle of town on the Wed afternoon. Found it really strange at the ground that the pitch was well below street level. Walking in you were already a quater of the way up the stand. I was near the tv box remember seeing Hansen going mental

Knickerless · « **Reply #8 on:** April 30, 2009, 02:58:00 pm »

I was there.

turned up mid afternoon to see many of our fans in worryingly good spirits considering the time and my fears were confirmed later that day when after the game the city of dortmund decided to not let the bars stay open (as previously arranged) due to our fans pissing all over the city damaging the landmark fountain and generally fucking everything up.

Oh yeah, the game... what a fucking match!!!... Champions and all that.

yafoy · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2009, 03:34:19 pm »

ChriS>Yes I was, I was living in "Neider-bayern" (southern ger-money) at the
time, and drove a borrowed BMW 500 kms up to DORTMUND with an Irish mate
who was living in Munich ...
..remember a funny incident when we were standing around the market square..
having a few bevvies and a german police leutenant with full peaked cap & black
uniform put his hand on my shoulder (to pass through) and as quick as a
flash the scouser opposite me said "ah for you Tommy, ze war is over"
...<smile>

the Dortmund fans also sing YNWA, so the start was great seemed like a home
game, we must have had 25-30,000 support there...

The game was exhausting, nearly had a heart-attack , great when GH & the team walked around like a RED chain and we all sang YNWA, (had a feling like, "we are on the way back!") and we just slept a couple of hours in the car before driving back the next morning, took me 2 weeks to recover (Alvaries fans were great also...) I spoke to the german bizzies after..(I speak their lingo) and they told us "great final, great fans, NOT ONE incident of hooliganism!, best they ever saw your supporters are always welcome here..)

Lanrmort · « **Reply #10 on:** April 30, 2009, 04:09:47 pm »

Had to sell the shirt off my back to a Bayern Munich fan so I had enough money for getting home. Horrible cattle train back to Amsterdam, oil everywhere. (glad I sold me top in retrospect - would have been ruined!)

Chinbits · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2009, 04:23:13 pm »

I like hearing some of the stories of how folk get to and from Euro games. My trip was not too bad, had to fly back after the game and we were kept in the coach outside the airport for ages. Got back in the early hours and had to drive home, I would have been nicked if I got pulled over with the amount of beer I'd had during the day.

kopitekop1 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 30, 2009, 04:27:57 pm »

We were there 4 of us.
Got the ferry over from Harwich i think to the Hook of Holland and drove my old cavalier from there. Was a really easy drive if i remember right. Shit ourselves at the German border though. They checked us up down left right and thought for one moment they were going to nick our tickets and send us back!! Got there and had a fantastic time in the square then onto the game. We were sitting right behind Gary Mac when he swung over the free-kick. If i remember rightly the stadium had a massive kop like home end which they converted to all seating for the final. And didnt they have the names of the people on the seats who sat there?? We had 2 Dortmund fans behind us desperate for Liverpool to win. They were cuddling us evertime we scored.
Drove straight back to the Hook and was first in the que for the ferry home. We all fell asleep in the car and was woken up by horns bibbing and people banging on the car with a mile long line of cars behind us wanting to get on the ferry. My first European final it was a fantastic time i will never forget! YNWA!!

t0m · « **Reply #13 on:** April 30, 2009, 04:29:48 pm »

no but it was one hell off a game. they looked a pub team intill 2nd half

kevindublin · « **Reply #14 on:** April 30, 2009, 04:32:32 pm »

Ah that little street were all the brass were

Great hot dogs as well

CHOPPER · « **Reply #15 on:** April 30, 2009, 04:33:02 pm »

Yes, but I was smashed out me face on white widow...would they like to know that D'ya think?

scouse-kenny · « **Reply #16 on:** April 30, 2009, 06:10:59 pm »

Quote from: PaulR on April 30, 2009, 02:11:26 pm

The club television channel is looking to make 'Dortmund '01: The Fans Story', a new three-hour show about possibly the greatest UEFA Cup final ever.

this channel really needs to make their shows a little shorter

Red number seven · « **Reply #17 on:** April 30, 2009, 06:17:41 pm »

Drove through the night. 16 (I think) of us in a minibus and a car - no fucking sleep, leathered on wine from some Alaves fans with wineskins - got lost trying to catch up with Erik Meier in the square - Robbie scored and we won.

Otherwise I can't really remember much else. Might have puked up at some point but can't be certain about that.

Classic Euro trip.

5FTH · « **Reply #18 on:** April 30, 2009, 06:27:44 pm »

Those stickers the Alaves fans had

"Were not ~~Spanish~~ English Were ~~Basque~~ Scouse"

And their shirts with all the season ticket holders names stiched into them.

Didnt Gary Mac's dad get up and sing on the stage? Im sure one of the players dads did.

That was one great piss up though.

slickman · « **Reply #19 on:** April 30, 2009, 06:30:55 pm »

Cracking night as a younger fan was my first europeon final the uefa cup really meant something back then played the likes of barca roma just to get to the final, tournament was nearly as strong as the champions league in them days.

Slick_Beef · « **Reply #20 on:** April 30, 2009, 06:38:53 pm »

Make sure you get Mad Erik on this program

Veinticinco de Mayo · « **Reply #21 on:** April 30, 2009, 06:48:26 pm »

Mate drove us there via Harwich. Took bloody hours. Remember having a great time with the Alaves fans in the Rathaus Cafe. Swapped my Liverpool shirt for a Alaves scarf and a big Basque flag. Remember my brother dancing in the fountain outside. Stopped off for some more beers in a tiny underground bar half way to the ground, full of arld Germans playing cards, we soon had 'em singing along mind. Chaos getting in, but a great ground, banging the tin on the back row.

Had the scariest ride back to our hotel later that night with a taxi driver who thought he was Michael Schumacher and who had clearly been drinking for almost as long as we had.

Stuck the Alaves scarf out of the car window for the journey home only to discover when we stopped for petrol in Holland that it had been unravelling a trail of cheap synthetic fibre all the way from Dortmund, I now have an Alav scarf.

As for the Basque flag, well the missus was waving that while balanced precariously on a lamppost base on Allerton Road as the team came round with the FA Cup in 2006. A certain Xabi Alonso Olano was very impressed, spoke to her and shouted his Spanish team mates over much to her delight.

Brilliant trip.

BCCC · « **Reply #22 on:** April 30, 2009, 06:54:43 pm »

Planes, trains and automobiles... great trip, 68 hours without sleep.

rhylred · « **Reply #23 on:** April 30, 2009, 07:13:51 pm »

went on the jumbo from speke,supposed to leave at 9-30 a.m. on day of the game, finally left at 12-30 pm,arrived in munster airport germany, hundreds of locals surrounded the perimeter of the airport{bit like harwarden in north wales}as jumbo had never landed there before..think it took us 2 bloody hours to get to dortmund from there,finally arriving about 5 ish,soon found a bar to have a few bevvies....when gary macs cross went in didn't realise it was golden goal till saw the lads off the bench running on the pitch..one of things i remember was the whole squad + coaching staff stood in front of our end joining in with one of the best renditions of Y.N.W.A. ever......if anyone still got the half + half scarf from that game have seen a couple bringing nearly 30 notes on e-bay recently....

CHOPPER · « **Reply #24 on:** April 30, 2009, 07:18:44 pm »

Mad the way that rain came down in the square, it was like a cartoon cloud when it rolled in.
Loads of confusion and muddle to try and get out of the rain. Happy Days.

TheKid. · « **Reply #25 on:** April 30, 2009, 07:21:23 pm »

that little train/tram rocking on the way to the ground.
The Alavés tent with food and drink in it.
That incredible stadium.
What a day

SPLee · « **Reply #26 on:** April 30, 2009, 07:44:42 pm »

This is a brief summary of the 6 hours after the game when i sat next to Ronnie Whelan with a ticket bought for 32 quid off the old "boot room" exchange

Anyone that was there will verify that 99.999999% of Dortmund was closed and effectively dry and everyone got booted out of town to destinations either home or loads went to amsterdam etc or went back to hotels etc after the match.

About an hour after the game after leaving the ground (after some had been interviewed for "the treble" dvd)and walking back into town its now like 1am I'm standing there smashed and still shaking with disbelief at what id just witnessed in this tiny little kebab shop head on counter when at the back this little wooden door swings open and out come 2 local old lads swaggering, FUCK ME A BAR!!!! in the back of a kebab shop

I goes out and drags our crew straight in there me, Cherith, Bob K, Olly, Lou, Chester Boy?? Rushian?? RiH?? Dave, Lee, Jody about 20-30 of us all in we crammed in and had it right off there for the rest of the night, the cheapest bestest celebration by a walking mile, those that were there will remember it forever, even better than Istanbul!!!!

we must have drank 100's of litres of very strong locally brewed lager at 2euros each and we drank lots of them and sang all night long....

chupa chups, chupa chups, chupa chups and we love you alaves we do..(to the Alaves fan with the 6ft inflatable Chupa Chup from their end)

To the little 4ft10in landlady we sang allkinds, Mrs Klaus, Mrs Klaus Mrs Klaus, we love ye mrs klaus we do, oh mrs klaus we love you

and at one point

Put your tits in for the lads (instead of get yer tits out for the lads, cos they were horrible

) (to which mrs klaus duly danced on top of the bar to, clapping away n stamping her feet without a clue what we were singing, just loving the fact the bar was selling out of beer fast!!)

The easyjet pilot is a charlie uniform november tango, well the easyjet pilot is a charlie uniform november tango. sung to mr klaus(dressed in bright orange boilersuit who obviously wasnt the easyjet pilot) who quickly arrived after a 3am phone call from mrs klaus who had obviously seen nothing like it in there before.

and the final one i was singing on me own through the streets of Dortmund at 6.50am after getting lost and being blind pissed with the earlier promise "if your not back at the car by 7 im leaving" from our driver Olly

Tell me ma me ma,
to not make me tea too hot,
cos we won the fucking lot,
tell me ma, me ma.

PS. Mrs & Mr Klaus were named by us and NO malicousness meant by any of our chants that night

PPS I made it back to the car at 10 past 7

PPS I still have swapped shirt as well

BCCC · « **Reply #27 on:** April 30, 2009, 07:47:50 pm »

Who went to the Dortmund CL game just after 9/11? About 500 travelled I think.

steveeastend · « **Reply #28 on:** April 30, 2009, 07:50:27 pm »

I was in Dortmund 2001... great time

Rox · « **Reply #29 on:** April 30, 2009, 08:26:53 pm »

Abiding memories:

The atmosphere on the plane getting very black when the captain annouced another hour delay. We'd already been delayed 2 hours. As soon as he realised the passengers were ready for mutiny, he was cleared for takeoff immediately...

Seeing my brother say he was fine on the plane when he actually looked very, very ill. He even let me have the window seat!

The rain that afternoon!! Soaked to the skin... My retro LFC top no longer had white trim; it was pink thanks to the colour running.

Seeing a group of fans walk into a department store, walk upstairs, rip the tags off of some coats, and then leave past what can only be described as the most incompetent Security Guard you've ever seen. Wet fans, leaving a shop with BONE DRY BRAND NEW coats on. Sherlock Holmes, he wasn't.

The German Police looking at us like we were weirdos because my brother needed somewhere safe to inject his insulin outside the stadium.. We clearly didn't know the German for Diabetic. They had to find and English speaking police officer to explain why he had a syringe and why he was asking to shoot up with a police escort..!

Sitting in the stadium just soaking up the atmosphere and watching it fill up.

Being 2-0 up after just 20 mins and thinking we'd got it! (WRONG!)

Being convinced Babbel scored the Extra Time Golden Goal. (We were the opposite end of the stadium to the goal being scored)

Sammy Lee bouncing around, and the Alaves fans sticking around.

Spending 8 hours in a queue of buses getting to the airport, no food, water or ablutions. The buses were herded around in order as to which plane you were getting on, only to find when you get to the head of the queue they just put anyone on any plane: no checking of tickets, bags or passports. Smugglers ahoy!

On the upside, because they were slinging us on any old plane, we were on a quicker, smaller, posher plane on the way back that gave out complimentary sandwiches and drinks! Much better than the rustbucket we went out on.

Getting home and watching the game again... to find the winning goal was an OG.

Oh, and while we're at it, the fans won an award for that final from UEFA, but I've never received my medal, anyone else got theirs?

Jimmy Mullet · « **Reply #30 on:** April 30, 2009, 08:29:17 pm »

Did anyone on her take the Ryanair flight from Stansted to Frankfurt (Hahn) the evening before the game, 'plane was full of Reds.

I stayed that night in Traben-Trabach, small town near to that airport. Train up to Bochum next morning to be informed that the Dortmund tourist office had booked me a room for the 15th (instead of the 16th

). train to Cologne and dumped my stuff in the Station backpackers, met a couple of Irish lads there and took the train up to Dortmund, by then we'd missed all of the action in the Markt square, had a few beers then took the U-Bahn to the ground. The train broke down, so we legged it the rest of the way (and got soaked through!).

Unforgettable match, I didn't even realise it was a golden-goal game until I saw all of our bench run on to the pitch.
And the whole squad singing YNWA infront of our fans. Amazing.

Quote from: BCCC on April 30, 2009, 07:47:50 pm

Who went to the Dortmund CL game just after 9/11? About 500 travelled I think.

I went to this one too, wasn't quite the same though, was it? Just after 9/11, if I remember rightly.

Jaron · « **Reply #31 on:** April 30, 2009, 08:46:18 pm »

I was there, and a few years ago I posted my memories of that unbelievable night here:
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=67797.0

What a week that was, the Owen Cup Final, then Dortmund, and finally qualifying for the Big Cup again.
I remember the drive over, the 3-fingered treble salutes exchanged with the cars trailing red scarves.
I remember the downpour before the game, the great atmosphere and the friendly Alaves fans.
I remember a kid called Steven Gerrard grow up before our eyes.
I remember singing myself hoarse throughout the din of extra time.
I remember Gary Mac.
I also remember the dark days of the 1990s.
That night, I remember falling in love with football again.

Wait for it!!! · « **Reply #32 on:** April 30, 2009, 09:21:42 pm »

I flew from Leeds/Bradford the afternoon before to Amsterdam then hopped on a train then got to the Dutch/German border only to discover it was the last train and stopped there!!
Got in a waiting room to get my head down and fell asleep to be woken by a Dutch Railway bloke who was closing the station!! Slept on the pavement outside under an awning of a shop.
Woke up to the sight of people on bikes going to work. Got on first train and got to Dortmund and went straight to the stadium as didn't have a ticket to be told that there were a few hundred tickets to be sold - RESULT!!
Stood in a queue for 2 hours in anticipation then was rewarded for my patience with a face value ticket in a better seat than my mates who had gone on an official trip!!
What a game!! It's all been said.
Got back tio train station and couldn't find anyhere to have a pint so got my head down again and woke up to a noise from just round the corner where there was a bar open!!
Got back to Leeds/Badford the day aftr a very tired but very happy man!!!!
And trip was cheap as chips.

mainstandred · « **Reply #33 on:** April 30, 2009, 09:48:36 pm »

yes i was stayed in oberhausen had a great night into the early hours in an Australian bar of all places in the centre of Dortmund , I remember the urchins throwning the legend Dr Fun in the fountain in the hours before the game in the square bit out of order but as usual he took it in great spirit great trip .

PaulR · « **Reply #34 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:27:12 pm »

Quote from: scouse-kenny on April 30, 2009, 06:10:59 pm

this channel really needs to make their shows a little shorter

The game itself is almost two hours!

bigbear · « **Reply #35 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:34:35 pm »

Seen big Erik Meijer pissed up in the square with the fans before the game. Great road trip.

BCCC · « **Reply #36 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:35:07 pm »

Quote from: Jimmy Mullet on April 30, 2009, 08:29:17 pm

Did anyone on her take the Ryanair flight from Stansted to Frankfurt (Hahn) the evening before the game, 'plane was full of Reds.

I stayed that night in Traben-Trabach, small town near to that airport. Train up to Bochum next morning to be informed that the Dortmund tourist office had booked me a room for the 15th (instead of the 16th ). train to Cologne and dumped my stuff in the Station backpackers, met a couple of Irish lads there and took the train up to Dortmund, by then we'd missed all of the action in the Markt square, had a few beers then took the U-Bahn to the ground. The train broke down, so we legged it the rest of the way (and got soaked through!).

Unforgettable match, I didn't even realise it was a golden-goal game until I saw all of our bench run on to the pitch.
And the whole squad singing YNWA infront of our fans. Amazing.
I went to this one too, wasn't quite the same though, was it? Just after 9/11, if I remember rightly.

Went the same route but on the day of the game although I came home through Belgium flying from Charleroi. Three of us got a taxi to Traben and then train through to Dortmund. I was the only one who had a ticket from the club that arrived while I was on route to the FA Cup final. Hell of a week that was..

It was a bit quieter for the CL game but we had a great time in Limericks before the game where the JAR song got a good airing as it was just after the derby goal; our lad's first euro away aswell.

INABITSKI · « **Reply #37 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:38:23 pm »

Quote from: BCCC on April 30, 2009, 10:35:07 pm

I was the only one who had a ticket from the club that arrived while I was on route to the FA Cup final.

I actually gave my FA Cup Final ticket away to one of the lads who wasn't going Dortmund as I was skint and couldn't afford both. God I regret that now.

Veinticinco de Mayo · « **Reply #38 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:41:22 pm »

Quote from: Jaron on April 30, 2009, 08:46:18 pm

I was there, and a few years ago I posted my memories of that unbelievable night here:
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=67797.0

That, sir, is a superb account. You should post on here more often.

BCCC · « **Reply #39 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:43:07 pm »

Quote from: INABITSKI on April 30, 2009, 10:38:23 pm

I actually gave my FA Cup Final ticket away to one of the lads who wasn't going Dortmund as I was skint and couldn't afford both. God I regret that now.

Mad day that. I was convinced we would lose the FA Cup final and wanted the UEFA Cup more anyway... a return to European greatness. Got the train into Cardiff from Bristol and it was full of gooners. Had a good craic with them, sharing ale and that; they were so confident. You could cut it with a knife though on the way back...