Author Topic: From the Archives: Pre-match and in-game thread. May 25th 2005. (Read 2245 times)

Alan_X · « **on:** May 25, 2021, 12:39:41 pm »

16 years ago this was the thread for the Champions League Final.

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=68112.0
20 pages (yes, twenty pages)
For those who want to jump ahead, it starts getting good again around page 8.

Fruity · « **Reply #1 on:** May 25, 2021, 12:57:52 pm »

Whatever happened to Walshy's Mullet.

Charlie Adams fried egg · « **Reply #2 on:** May 25, 2021, 12:58:06 pm »

Ha Ha.
Just had a skim while having lunch. Seems the names change but the sentiments don't especially from pre game to HT

Nice to see WHP still around and mention to AR66 for his support.

Nice reminder of a little day trip I took 16 years ago.....

thaddeus · « **Reply #3 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:03:33 pm »

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This game certainly puts to bed the romantic notion that Gerrard is a "big game" player...No fire, no passion, mind doubtless elsewhere.

I won't name names as we all have terrible posts we'd rather not revisit. That game, Dortmund, Barcelona... West Brom... never say never!

Dench57 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:12:52 pm »

hah, some absolute corkers in there

"6=0 to Milan this. Fucking embarrasing. Gerrard, fuck off to Chelsea, you twat."

Garrus · « **Reply #5 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:20:10 pm »

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I would chop my cock off if it meant we won it now................

Charlie Adams fried egg · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:21:45 pm »

Quote from: Dench57 on May 25, 2021, 01:12:52 pm

hah, some absolute corkers in there

"6=0 to Milan this. Fucking embarrasing. Gerrard, fuck off to Chelsea, you twat."

In a sea of shit that was the crowning turd.

disgraced cake · « **Reply #7 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:30:56 pm »

I don't know how people had the will to be posting on here when we were getting stuffed. I'd lost my head at 3-0

Big shout out to Disintegration. Absolutely fucking cried it in on their penalty takers

Unbelievable memories.

Alan_X · « **Reply #8 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:39:58 pm »

How many pages would that be today?

DangerScouse · « **Reply #9 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:40:49 pm »

Well over a hundred!!

ScouserAtHeart · « **Reply #10 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:42:25 pm »

Also nice to see both the West Ham and Newcastle Pauls going as nuts as us

FlashingBlade · « **Reply #11 on:** May 25, 2021, 01:49:23 pm »

About this time 16 years ago me mates head was purple and about to explode..he put his ticket in hotel safe and it was an old one with a key which snapped when they tried to open it....so they sent for a locksmith..we offered support to our mate by pissing ourselves laughing...which for some reason he didn't appreciate.

Anyway they found a guy and he opened it...which killed visions of me mate getting to turnstile and dumping a massive 100 year old cast iron safe on the counter " Its in there!"

so many great stories and experiences from that trip and the result wasn't
bad either.

FlashingBlade · « **Reply #12 on:** May 25, 2021, 02:01:26 pm »

Man o' Man the memories are flooding back now..such a wonderful magical trip...from visiting the two mosques...a taxi ride across Istanbul with a crazy sabre rattling taxi driver....a stunning roof top lunch overlooking the Bosphorus...hearing a mullah calling the faithfull at daybreak from the minarets whilst still celebrating on the ale ..plus so much more and the laughs...so many laughs....

This is why being a Red is the greatest
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Alan_X · « **Reply #13 on:** May 25, 2021, 02:05:51 pm »

Quote from: FlashingBlade on May 25, 2021, 02:01:26 pm

...a mullah calling the faithfull at daybreak from the minarets whilst still celebrating on the ale...

I'm not sure that's allowed.

FlashingBlade · « **Reply #14 on:** May 25, 2021, 02:39:51 pm »

Quote from: Alan_X on May 25, 2021, 02:05:51 pm

I'm not sure that's allowed.

Everyone celebrating that night..morning..

kesey · « **Reply #15 on:** May 25, 2021, 03:16:04 pm »

What a week we had in Kusadasi with a free bar

. I reckon the hotel was glad to see the back of us . A gang of Dixons and a free bar . Do the math

I'll look through the match thread later.

Raid · « **Reply #16 on:** May 25, 2021, 06:15:29 pm »

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Worked so hard and what? Couldnt even be bothered to turn up.

Gerrard?

You can fuck right off - sell the prick he has done NOTHING in that game. Not a tackle a run no surge, no fucken nothing.

Amazing

Dim Glas · « **Reply #17 on:** May 25, 2021, 06:27:21 pm »

Prozac

Oldmanmick · « **Reply #18 on:** May 25, 2021, 07:19:41 pm »

Great thread. Watched the match at my brother-in-laws & had to walk the 2 miles home afterwards. Can't remember how many times I fell over as I was that pissed.

Any chance of the thread from 1977 ? I was there that night so I couldn't catch it on RAWK

RedBootsTommySmith · « **Reply #19 on:** May 25, 2021, 07:45:03 pm »

What about the same date in Roma, then? The biggest night in Liverpool’s history.

Alan_X · « **Reply #20 on:** May 25, 2021, 09:17:46 pm »

Quote from: RedBootsTommySmith on May 25, 2021, 07:45:03 pm

What about the same date in Roma, then? The biggest night in Liverpool’s history.

Had a look but there’s no RAWK thread from 1977.

TepidT2O · « **Reply #21 on:** May 25, 2021, 09:45:13 pm »

Quote from: Alan_X on May 25, 2021, 12:39:41 pm

16 years ago this was the thread for the Champions League Final.

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=68112.0
20 pages (yes, twenty pages)
For those who want to jump ahead, it starts getting good again around page 8.

Ah what a thread… such great memories….

The lowest of lows to the highest of highs ….

Still moves me more than almost anything

FlashingBlade · « **Reply #22 on:** May 25, 2021, 10:19:17 pm »

Quote from: Alan_X on May 25, 2021, 09:17:46 pm

Had a look but there’s no RAWK thread from 1977.

Social Media then was passing the Pink Echo around the pub.

RedBootsTommySmith · « **Reply #23 on:** May 25, 2021, 10:33:15 pm »

Quote from: FlashingBlade on May 25, 2021, 10:19:17 pm

Social Media then was passing the Pink Echo around the pub.

No, it was a mid-week game, the Pink was only on Saturdays!

RedBootsTommySmith · « **Reply #24 on:** May 25, 2021, 10:34:27 pm »

Quote from: Alan_X on May 25, 2021, 09:17:46 pm

Had a look but there’s no RAWK thread from 1977.

Fair enough!

Mighty_Red · « **Reply #25 on:** May 25, 2021, 10:36:33 pm »

Don't think I posted in that thread, after all, these were the days you generally had to log onto your pc to post.

I jumped in my car drove home, ate quickly then off to the pub. I remember my cuz saying at HT that maybe it would've been better if Chelsea beat us as they would give Milan a better game.

For some reason I had the 3-3 against Utd in my head. Still remember my reaction when Smicer scored.

After getting through a number of beer jugs I decided at HT of extra time to get just 1/2 pint to see me through to the end. Well, it did actually last till that Shevchenko pen but it did lead to me buying more jugs of beer 🍺🍺🍺

Before the pens I didn't care if we won or lost, the team were heroes. They went on to become legends.

I don't think any win or night will replace Istanbul for me. After last year wasn't the same as we knew we had it so it's a different feeling.

Thanks Rafa.

oojason · « **Reply #26 on:** June 29, 2021, 02:34:54 pm »

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Both these may be worth a read too; RAWK's 2005 European Cup Final pre-match and post-match threads:-

'European Cup Final - AC Milan vs Liverpool - Build up here. D-day' pre-match thread (17 pages) - www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=66230.0

'All post-match hysteria for the European Champions here!' post-match thread (11 pages) - www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=68130.0

Some 'Liverpool Audio/Video Thread' content for the 2005 European Cup Final - www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=293988.msg10388550#msg10388550

^ it also contains the RAWK pre match / in-game / post match threads for all the Champions League matches that season (plus match info pages from www.lfchistory.net)

RAWK threads in the week of the 25th May 2005 can be found here (currently) - www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?board=2.29120 (Page 729)

RAWK threads on the day of the 25th May 2005 itself can be found here (currently) - www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?board=2.28880 (Page 723)

Some quality threads in the 'European Away forum' forum too - www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?board=13.1440 (Pages 37 to 29 -ish)

How LiverpoolFC.tv reported the final - and post-match content (from the 26th May; via archive.org) - https://web.archive.org/web/20050526085542/http://www.liverpoolfc.tv

A few RAWK threads on Rafa from over the years - www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=258907.msg18194356#msg18194356

disgraced cake · « **Reply #27 on:** June 29, 2021, 10:49:30 pm »

Those early Rawk throwback threads are a great trip down memory lane. I'm shitting myself reading that pre-Istanbul thread and the game was on sixteen fucking years ago

In a decade we'll be looking back on the likes of Barcelona and Madrid, and ideally will have added a few more successes to the list

kavah · « **Reply #28 on:** June 30, 2021, 02:04:11 am »

Town that night was the best ever - almost everywhere drunk dry - every bus going in rammed - people on the roof - hanging onto doors - absolute joy everywhere