Topic: One that got away...

[Butcher Knife Roberto]

08/09. The 4-4 against Arsenal and Macheda turning from a donkey into a world class striker for 20 min were brutal moments.

Oh my goodness, I had blanked that lad's name out of my head successfully for over a decade....

For me it has to be Athens though. Milan were far from their best but for some reason it was one of those 90 minutes that just flashed by and the lads could do nothing about it. The LFC team of 07-08 would have completely destroyed them. A weird game played under horrible circumstances.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Leverkusen 01/02 - why oh why we took Hamann off I'll never understand. We would have beaten United in the semi's. Probably not Madrid in the final but it would have still put us right at the forefront of European football again. Was downhill from there under Houllier.


Pretty much every time we got knocked out of Europe under Rafa. Benfica, Milan, Chelsea x2, Atletico.. Always felt hard done by and always felt as though we would have gone on to win the trophy had we progressed.

[Zimagic]

Chelsea under Brendan when we didn't need to go for it, a draw would have done (they needed to win however) and we all know what happened next.

[Smellytrabs]

Chelsea under Brendan when we didn't need to go for it, a draw would have done (they needed to win however) and we all know what happened next.

That's a sliding doors moment. Win/draw that game, we win the league. But does Brendan then get longer on the throne and we miss our window to bring in Klopp?

[Crosby Nick]

Chelsea under Brendan when we didn't need to go for it, a draw would have done (they needed to win however) and we all know what happened next.

It’s been done to death but we didn’t lose that game because we ‘went for it’. We were pretty controlled until their freak goal. Had we gone in at half time at 0-0 it would have been tricky to decide whether to stick or twist but I thought we were fairly mature up until that goal.

Not that I’ve ever watched it back of course.

What I am certain of is that had we drawn that game then we’d have beaten Palace.

[Zimagic]

That's a sliding doors moment. Win/draw that game, we win the league. But does Brendan then get longer on the throne and we miss our window to bring in Klopp?

Oh absolutely, but I still get frustrated about it even now.

@BIG DICK NICK, I disagree with you on this, we pushed the entire game. Our line was about 1m from the central line all game. Obviously the second half was because we were behind but the first was pretty much the same.