I would just like to add my own (Spurs fan) congratulations to everyone involved with Liverpool FC. With a special mention to Stevie G & Jamie Carriger (spell check please) who I thought were outstanding. The fans were something else as well. Carriger reminds me of one Terry Butcher. All he was missing last night was a bloody bandage around his head!

Abs and I watched the game last night and I can safely say that it was one of the most enjoyable (eventually) that I have ever watched. I couldn't help get caught up in the atmosphere.

Are you an Everton or AC Milan supporter Jem? There is no doubt that AC played some silky football and scored some excellent goals, but at the end of the day they were unable to keep liverpool out on 3 seperate occasions, missed from 1 yard (the initial save rivals Gordon Banks against Pele for me) and managed to miss three penalties. So how on earth can you say that it was flukey?

Hopefully Liverpool will be given the oportunity to defend their crown. I do however fear that UEFA's perjudice against English teams will endure. I have no doubt that had AC Milan been in the same situation UEFA would being re-writing the rule book as we speak.

Top Job Guys!!!!  

Gazza

Would point you to this, from the FA:

The FA confirmed today that the top four teams in the Premiership at the end of the season will enter next season’s UEFA Champions League.

The decision follows a recommendation from this afternoon’s Professional Game Board meeting, which has been endorsed by The FA Main Board. This will not be changed whatever the outcome of Liverpool's Champions League Final in Istanbul on 25 May.

However, The FA also believes that if Liverpool win in Istanbul and do not finish in the top four in the Premiership, an extra place should be allocated to them in the Champions League next season.

This is ultimately a matter for UEFA, but The FA will continue to make representations on this issue at the highest level.

Fairly conclusive, I would say.

Are you guys talking about football or fooooootball?  I've heard you guys play soccer over there.  What has the NFL Europe done to show you guys what football is really all about?  ha ha.

Say I heard that there is some American connection to the Manchester team now.  Is that true?  That might be a connection we need here to pump up the interest in world class Soccer.  There is a growing participation with the young kids, boys and girls, to play soccer here in the US.   It may take a generation for it to blossom but it's becoming the real deal for us.

Congrats to Liverpool!!!!!   Sounds like it was a good one.

Tink,
my mate is a director at TNS (the compooter company that own TNS the football club). I will ask what's happening.

John, we play football over here, which you lot call soccer. We claim the name cos we invented it hundreds of years ago, about the same time some dodgy looking blokes wearing black were setting sail from Plymouth; you lot play American football over there and it's a game I simply cannot stomach. Baseball, yes, now that's ok,but American football sucks.

Anyway, I don't know why you guys call it football, I mean, you hardly ever kick it do you. Mind you, as far as I can see, the players hardly ever do anything except tackle the opposition when they haven't even got the ball. Just how dumb is that?? No, IMO American football is a wretched game and is only followed here by sad inadquate blokes who still live with their mums. Maybe it used to be a good sport but since the NFL sold it's ass to the TV networks, it's commerciality has spoiled the spectacle. That and the ridiculous and totally unnecessary body armour.  You could argue that our football is in grave danger of following suite...

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Nothing wrong with that. I grew-up in a large family of footie fans. Unfortunately, mum is a committed Liverpool fan, Dad is a rabid Evertonian. You can only imagine the trepidation of my siblings and I as Merseyside derby matches approached (I sh*t you not!)
I was scarred to the extent that I decided to completely shun professional football so I supported Nottingham Forest.

Now, I think Andy Zarse's ill-informed and confrontational comments about American Football are totally without foundation or merit. Had he not confessed to me that he derived pleasure from watching that dullest and most mind-numbing of field sports, Cricket, I may even have taken him seriously.
In keeping with my penchant for supporting the loosingest of teams, I follow the Cincinnati Bengals - the Morgan Aero 8 of the NFL.

Congrats to LFC - but my father and Dave H (as well as Jem) will be fully fledged members of the "Who Gives a f**k Club".

My neighbour is an Evertonian, and at half time he came out of his house and planted a very large Italian flag in his lawn, followed by an equally large Everton flag, laughing his head off.

I haven't seen him today, but I can't wait for him to want to borrow my jump leads again!  

Bang goes your honourary bloke status Fran!!!

Perhaps more of a "Geezer Bird"!!