Author Topic: The 25th of May, Happy Istanbul Day and Rome day. (Read 53650 times)

Gnurglan · « **Reply #240 on:** May 25, 2014, 09:44:39 pm »

Quote from: jillc on May 26, 2013, 11:51:51 pm

Have to say can't understand those who are reluctant to look back and celebrate days such as these. What's the matter with them, why are they so embarrassed by it? While I agree we need to look forward, we also need to celebrate what was. Instead of wanting to hide these successes away in a cupboard, we should treat them as an incentive for the latest players to aim for. This football club should never be afraid, we have conquered everest before, we will conquer it again.

Agree. History can remind players who they are playing for and what they can achieve. And the same goes for the supporters. We should treasure our biggest achievements. If for nothing else, so because it feels good to remember.

chanti · « **Reply #241 on:** May 25, 2014, 10:05:05 pm »

Remember that I had to write a physic paper after the Rome 84 final. Managed to pass the paper tho.

Years later I got a VHS cassette on the penalty shootout. I must have watched that bit about 100 times.

YNWA.

Tom18 · « **Reply #242 on:** May 25, 2014, 10:57:07 pm »

9 years a go today was the best day in my life footballing wise. Doubt we'll see anything like that ever again.

seanbren · « **Reply #243 on:** May 26, 2014, 11:00:28 am »

Aldo at the airport the next day being carried shoulder high.
So many memories.
Like the very drunk scally who thought our taxi driver was his mum. He was that knackered he refused to get out of the cab at the airport. He kept saying '5 minutes more mum' god knows what the taxi driver thought.......as he drove off at about 200 miles per hour

Cochise · « **Reply #244 on:** May 26, 2014, 01:03:11 pm »

9 years ago today I woke up on a couch somewhere and was sacked from my job.

Red number seven · « **Reply #245 on:** May 26, 2014, 01:08:58 pm »

Quote from: Cochise on May 26, 2014, 01:03:11 pm

9 years ago today I woke up on a couch somewhere and was sacked from my job.

Worth it though...

What a fucking memory that day was.

oojason · « **Reply #246 on:** May 26, 2014, 02:39:37 pm »

Probably been posted a few times, but still worth a Montse:-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/mDLSu8VZ8G8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/mDLSu8VZ8G8</a>

Cheers Rafa

DangerScouse · « **Reply #247 on:** May 25, 2016, 06:01:59 pm »

Fucking boss. What a fucking week Istanbul was. Best memories of my life.

Gnurglan · « **Reply #248 on:** May 25, 2016, 06:43:25 pm »

Fantastic few days in Istanbul. Unbelievable game. You couldn't write a better script. Will remember it forever.

Found my ticket a while ago. Together with the ticket from the Alaves game. Both are now framed and put on display.

jillcwhomever · « **Reply #249 on:** May 25, 2016, 06:49:41 pm »

Quote from: orilliakopite on May 25, 2012, 11:26:12 pm

I am stood behind the Joey Jones banner with my brother. What an amazing journey from Lime street to Rome on the train.

That Joey Jones banner was epic, whoever thought of that was a genius.

Alf · « **Reply #250 on:** May 25, 2016, 06:50:29 pm »

bon anniversaire

Now Jürgena Believe Us · « **Reply #251 on:** May 25, 2016, 08:23:35 pm »

Alles Gute zum Jubiläum!

TepidT2O · « **Reply #252 on:** May 25, 2016, 08:26:17 pm »

Can I also wish you all happy towel day

H2G2

clogandbottle · « **Reply #253 on:** May 25, 2016, 10:18:00 pm »

it's also my birthday, best birthday i had was in 2005 in Istanbul

iAnfieldRoad · « **Reply #254 on:** May 25, 2016, 10:54:31 pm »

HAPPY ANNIVERSARIES REDMEN.YNWA.

Crosby Nick · « **Reply #255 on:** May 25, 2017, 08:50:01 am »

12 years today I witnessed my first miracle.

40 years ago today (blimey!), we won it for the first time.

What a date, must be the best one in our history!

Gnurglan · « **Reply #256 on:** May 25, 2017, 09:04:28 am »

Perfect that it's a religious holiday today.

Fantastic day. "Champions League we're having a laugh."

Schneiderman · « **Reply #257 on:** May 25, 2017, 09:23:30 am »

happy anniversary YNWA

Mighty_Red · « **Reply #258 on:** May 25, 2017, 09:31:58 am »

Think we should lobby UEFA to have the CL final on the 25th May every year. They obviously wouldn't agree to such a request since that would mean us winning it every year

Happy Istanbul & Rome day!

DangerScouse · « **Reply #259 on:** May 25, 2017, 10:00:25 am »

Best week of my life!!

Those few days on Taksim will never be beaten.

alonsoisared · « **Reply #260 on:** May 25, 2017, 01:39:27 pm »

What a fucking day. Number 5, the greatest game of football ever played.

rhylred · « **Reply #261 on:** May 25, 2017, 03:15:55 pm »

Ha Ha was just thinking about Rome 77 as i applied online for me over 60's train pass which i can get in a couple of weeks..

Will never ever be lucky enough to go on a train journey which i was honoured to be on that week..
Going to a dinner tommorow night with the great Ray Clemence & the legend that is Joey Jones,all the great memories will come flooding back..

Antoine Lavoisier · « **Reply #262 on:** May 25, 2017, 03:54:10 pm »

40 years and 12 years?? Where has it gone?

riismeister · « **Reply #263 on:** May 25, 2017, 04:01:43 pm »

Interestingly 25th of May 1977 was also the day Star Wars premiered.

jackh · « **Reply #264 on:** May 25, 2017, 04:28:50 pm »

That day 12 years ago will forever be the strangest.

I was home revising for my A-Levels when my mum arrived back from work in the morning and informed me that my grandmother had passed away suddenly, unexpectedly, and at a young age. Essentially, it's my grandmother and my dad moving to Liverpool during his childhood that has determined that I'm a Liverpool supporter and all my memories of time with her (particularly Christmas) are so bound up with imagery or discussion of the Club (not to mention the ridiculous amount of LFC-related gifts...!). Most of my extended family lived about two hours away, so we'd head up there as a family perhaps five or six times a year for the weekend - my brother and I would spend a night each at hers. I carried that on until I was about 14/15 but there came I time when I wanted to be a grown-up and spend the evenings with the generation in between - my parents always stayed with their best friends - so I stopped staying as often as I did when I was younger. I'd say that I regretted that - a year or two of wasted final evenings - but I think it was a very normal teenage reaction and I'm sure she understood that.

The six or seven hours that followed my mum's arrival home were bizarre - my dad returned home early but we left my brother in school - and what I'd hoped would be a day spent reading and watching match build-up just turned into a day where I feel like I sat alone in my room staring blankly at nothing in particular. It must have been half-six/seven, when we eventually all sort of emerged from that day dream - we needed to eat and, as a family, we needed to get round the television and cheer on the Reds. In some ways, watching the match together would have been cathartic regardless of the outcome, but - of course - well, we all know what followed.

Some days I can't believe it's been a whole twelve years; other days I can't believe it's only been twelve. What I do know is that the best and worst of my 10686 days so far - at ridiculous odds - happened to fall on the same one.

It's against all my instincts and beliefs, but if one day I'm proved wrong and somehow she did have a hand in Jerzy's save... I'll not mind

McrRed · « **Reply #265 on:** May 25, 2017, 04:36:11 pm »

Dusty round here. Something in my eye...

Antoine Lavoisier · « **Reply #266 on:** May 25, 2017, 04:38:45 pm »

Quote from: riismeister on May 25, 2017, 04:01:43 pm

Interestingly 25th of May 1977 was also the day Star Wars premiered.

Well I never! Nice one for that.

Antoine Lavoisier · « **Reply #267 on:** May 25, 2017, 04:40:03 pm »

Quote from: jackh on May 25, 2017, 04:28:50 pm

That day 12 years ago will forever be the strangest.

I was home revising for my A-Levels when my mum arrived back from work in the morning and informed me that my grandmother had passed away suddenly, unexpectedly, and at a young age. Essentially, it's my grandmother and my dad moving to Liverpool during his childhood that has determined that I'm a Liverpool supporter and all my memories of time with her (particularly Christmas) are so bound up with imagery or discussion of the Club (not to mention the ridiculous amount of LFC-related gifts...!). Most of my extended family lived about two hours away, so we'd head up there as a family perhaps five or six times a year for the weekend - my brother and I would spend a night each at hers. I carried that on until I was about 14/15 but there came I time when I wanted to be a grown-up and spend the evenings with the generation in between - my parents always stayed with their best friends - so I stopped staying as often as I did when I was younger. I'd say that I regretted that - a year or two of wasted final evenings - but I think it was a very normal teenage reaction and I'm sure she understood that.

The six or seven hours that followed my mum's arrival home were bizarre - my dad returned home early but we left my brother in school - and what I'd hoped would be a day spent reading and watching match build-up just turned into a day where I feel like I sat alone in my room staring blankly at nothing in particular. It must have been half-six/seven, when we eventually all sort of emerged from that day dream - we needed to eat and, as a family, we needed to get round the television and cheer on the Reds. In some ways, watching the match together would have been cathartic regardless of the outcome, but - of course - well, we all know what followed.

Some days I can't believe it's been a whole twelve years; other days I can't believe it's only been twelve. What I do know is that the best and worst of my 10686 days so far - at ridiculous odds - happened to fall on the same one.

It's against all my instincts and beliefs, but if one day I'm proved wrong and somehow she did have a hand in Jerzy's save... I'll not mind

Wow mate, so much in that I don't know where to begin. Thanks for sharing though, I love reading these sort of things, if you know what I mean.

kavah · « **Reply #268 on:** May 25, 2017, 04:57:21 pm »

Quote from: Acton Nick on May 25, 2017, 08:50:01 am

What a date, must be the best one in our history!

Oh Yes

Veinticinco de Mayo - whatever happened to good old VdM? If you're lurking

kavah · « **Reply #269 on:** May 25, 2017, 05:03:17 pm »

Quote from: tony new mexico on April 22, 2012, 08:13:12 am

Rome 77 special ticket.

from the Football Special thread

dave 5516 · « **Reply #270 on:** May 25, 2017, 05:41:31 pm »

Quote from: rhylred on May 25, 2017, 03:15:55 pm

Ha Ha was just thinking about Rome 77 as i applied online for me over 60's train pass which i can get in a couple of weeks..
Will never ever be lucky enough to go on a train journey which i was honoured to be on that week..
Going to a dinner tommorow night with the great Ray Clemence & the legend that is Joey Jones,all the great memories will come flooding back..

Disappeared quick didn't it, la. I was thinking how nice the weather is today....very Rome 77 here in Liverpool.

BeingJohnMarkovic · « **Reply #271 on:** May 25, 2017, 06:01:00 pm »

Still remember the hangover I had the day after the Istanbul game. It was totally worth it!

Thepooloflife · « **Reply #272 on:** May 25, 2017, 06:13:02 pm »

Remember both vividly - in '77 I was a young pup in me 20's, in '05 an 'arl fart in me 50's...........but the celebrations were equally as wild ! Great memories.
Arriverderci Roma........

Andy Hunter · « **Reply #273 on:** May 25, 2017, 08:55:16 pm »

Pretty sure it was at this time the Istanbul comeback goals were being scored

Who else watches it on every anniversary?

TepidT2O · « **Reply #274 on:** May 25, 2017, 09:05:08 pm »

I saw a short clip of dudek's penalty save against Sevchenko today..

10 seconds or so...

Massive shiver ran down my spine and tears welled in my eyes... after all these years, it still does it, it's still fresh...

Ferg · « **Reply #275 on:** May 25, 2017, 10:16:26 pm »

Is the match thread still on here?

disgraced cake · « **Reply #276 on:** May 25, 2017, 10:20:39 pm »

Thompson banging on the glass in Istanbul. Goosebumps to this day.

Andy Hunter · « **Reply #277 on:** May 26, 2017, 12:12:29 am »

Quote from: disgraced cake on May 25, 2017, 10:20:39 pm

Thompson banging on the glass in Istanbul. Goosebumps to this day.

I will always remember an old man with glasses with his hand on his forehead after we equalised. That summed it up for me how everyone felt.

Maybe he's even on Rawk, or someone knows him, but it makes me smile thinking about him.

Andy Hunter · « **Reply #278 on:** May 26, 2017, 12:14:14 am »

Yet we still don't know the answers to the first 2 questions in my sig.

oojason · « **Reply #279 on:** May 26, 2017, 02:12:36 am »

Quote from: Andy Hunter on May 26, 2017, 12:14:14 am

Yet we still don't know the answers to the first 2 questions in my sig.

Shevchenko did score his rebound mate - you can just about make it out on this fan video - 2m 50s in (though you'll have to be quick on the pause button to catch it):-

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/FpAI-RRg0N4&" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/FpAI-RRg0N4&</a>

or click here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAI-RRg0N4&

^ weird that we only see the penalties from that camera angle on the tv footage - thought there may be have been more camera angles showing the pens than that, especially for a CL Final (behind the goal etc)?

As for the ambulance for Tomasson's pen? No idea mate - but it (or other ambulances) went across the bit of the ground behind the goal at the Milan end a couple of times during the game that I noticed.