Liverpool 2 - 3 Chelsea (3 - 4 Aggregate)
Well. What a night of football. Credit has to go to Chelsea - and in particular to Didier Drogba - who have played some brilliant football. Drogba’s goal proved to be the winner in a match that literally hung in the balance at several points. From a personal point of view, I can’t not be disappointed not to be through to the third Champions League Final in four years.
However, I have to hold my head high and wish Chelsea luck for the Final. There’s not much I can say about the match itself. Liverpool showed the spirit that they’re infamous for, fighting until the bitter end - all I can say is that the cards weren’t quite right and that it wasn’t meant to be “our year”. To try and pick holes in each player’s performance wouldn’t be right. Some could sit and pick holes in performance, decisions, what-ifs and such for hours. However, we did what we could, and this year Chelsea had the luck.
I would also like to take this opportunity to say why I support Liverpool Football Club, despite my birth roots being in Essex and having no physical link with the north - let alone Liverpool - and my reasons are showcased beautifully in the match tonight. I support Liverpool because of what can only be described as their spirit; the grit, determination and “never say die” attitude has brought us back from 3 - 0 down in Istanbul in 2005, and equalised in the dying minutes of added time in Cardiff in 2006, and also the same attitude which almost took us through against Chelsea tonight. Liverpool is a club which intrinsically instils a genuine sense of belief and hope with everything that they do, and it isn’t just a football club, it’s a way of life - one you’re a Red, you’re always a Red.
That is why I support Liverpool Football Club, and it’s why I’m not actually feeling that annoyed about tonight’s result. The result itself is material; it’s something which can’t be changed and therefore should be accepted. I still believe in the club, I still believe in everything that it stands for and everything it has been, continues to be and will be - and, in my mind at least, that is all that matters.
You’ll Never Walk Alone!
Craig
May 1st, 2008 at 12:03 am
Fair play lad, even though you was once a United fan
May 1st, 2008 at 1:07 am
Why don’t you take a seat over there? That comment originally pointed out you being a United fan? Now it has been censored, how do you explain yourself?
Join us next time for another rousing edition of “To catch a closet United fan”
May 1st, 2008 at 1:16 am
haha! I removed it because it’s not entirely true and was intended as a cheap joke more than anything. I have restored the comment to its original state though
It is correct that I was indeed once a United fan, however that was when I was about seven or eight years old and just picked it up from friends at school without really knowing, just to “go along” more than anything else.
It was when I started taking a real interest in football as well as looking at and evaluating things properly for myself at about 10 years old that I began to support Liverpool - and haven’t looked back since