champions league quarter finals

[simonr]

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Carragher, Hyypia and Alonso were simply awesome - Xabi's only played 45mins since boxing day put played the pass of the match and put the Juve midfielders to shame. I've never known the likes of Nedved to have such a quiet game.

The BBC says it all "Rafael Benitez's injury-ravaged side delivered a performance of discipline and resilience to protect their 2-1 lead from the first leg at Anfield."

Hopefully Chelsea have used up their allocation of a considerable amount of good fortune with those two deflected goals against Bayern.

[Kinetic]

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Carragher, Hyypia and Alonso were simply awesome - Xabi's only played 45mins since boxing day put played the pass of the match and put the Juve midfielders to shame. I've never known the likes of Nedved to have such a quiet game.

The BBC says it all "Rafael Benitez's injury-ravaged side delivered a performance of discipline and resilience to protect their 2-1 lead from the first leg at Anfield."

Hopefully Chelsea have used up their allocation of a considerable amount of good fortune with those two deflected goals against Bayern.

Oh, believe me, Chelsea will get their luck some other way.

According to Portuguese newspapers, Mourinho :

a) is The son of the Devil
b) made a pact with the Devil at a crossroads
c) is the Devil himself

[wonk]

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im a happy man today! what a performance/result last nite! reckon we can give chelsea a good run for their money too with the second leg being in anfield. i think ac milan will be too much in the final if we make it though

[rubyraks]

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Damn Damn Damn!!! Juve couldn't even get a goal at home!

Now could someone please tell me what the hell happened when these teams met back in 85? On the broadcasts here and on all websites that I read they merely mentioned that over 30 people died, but they kept tiptoeing around what actually happened. And as an American who got into football like mad about 10 years ago, I have no idea about much of the history.

[peloquin]

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it was a riot prior to the 1985 european cup final between liverpool and juve. 39 people died, mostly italian.

[peloquin]

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The Heysel Disaster

The Heysel disaster of 29 May, 1985, led to the deaths of 39 fans and a five-year blanket ban on English clubs in European football.
More than 60,000 supporters of Liverpool and Juventus had made their way into the ageing Heysel stadium in northwest Brussels, many having spent the day drinking before the European Cup final.

At around 7pm local time, about an hour before the scheduled kickoff, the trouble started.


Fans had been chanting, waving flags and letting off fireworks, but the atmosphere became more violent and a thin line of police was unable to prevent a contingent of Liverpool followers from stampeding towards rival fans.

A retaining wall separating the Liverpool followers from Juventus supporters in sector 'Z' collapsed under the pressure and many were crushed or trampled when panicking Juventus fans tried to escape.

Thirty-nine Italian and Belgian fans died and hundreds were injured.


The game eventually went ahead late, despite objections from both managers, and Juventus won the match 1-0 from a second half penalty.

Some Liverpool fans claimed that Juventus supporters precipitated the violence by hurling stones and other missiles.


Others have blamed poor organisation and lack of crowd control by the Belgian authorities, saying that there were insufficient police inside the stadium to prevent fans from clashing.

UEFA acted swiftly to ban all English clubs indefinitely from participating in any of the three European competitions in the wake of the tragedy.

This restriction was gradually lifted five years later.

The Heysel stadium itself has changed beyond recognition since the disaster.

The old venue, built in 1930, was demolished after the disaster and replaced by the all-seater Stade Roi Baudouin, which has never been used to stage club football.


No plaque commemorates the 1985 horror, and the only reminder of that time is a reconditioned gateway near the main entrance, the last remnant of the original stadium.

Gerald McKinley, a Liverpool fan who was at Heysel but not involved in the rioting, said: "Heysel was almost certainly going to happen because no one, anywhere, seemed capable of stopping the violence.

"There was trouble at almost every game, at home and abroad and not just involving English teams. It was like trying to stop a runaway train.

"It had to stop somehow and since Heysel, there have been far fewer incidents. But what a tragic loss of life."

[phazon]

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The Heysel Disaster
Some Liverpool fans claimed that Juventus supporters precipitated the violence by hurling stones and other missiles.

It makes me sick, it's always reported this way. What is rarely mentioned is the footage of a Juve fan on the running track at the stadium with a gun. It was a tragic event that had a lot to do with some Liverpool 'fans', but the italians played there part too.

The English were the scapegoats that UEFA were only too happy to hang out to dry. Lets see what they do to the Italians after this weeks events, and the trouble they've had all season (2 abandoned Champions League games, trouble in the domestic league)? Very little I reckon, probably a few games behind closed doors for Inter.

[rubyraks]

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Man, that's absolutely horrible! What a tragedy :cry:

compared to that, the hooligans of today seemed to have calmed a bit at least.

[shosh]

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FORZA MILAN

[peloquin]

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just because nobody else seems to be, ill say GO PSV

[krolikk]

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Milan will ride on the PSV like a steamroller. alex will need a camp shovel to stay on a filed, otherwise he will be stuck in the ground

[Kinetic]

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It?s not from the Champions League, but this means a hell of a lot more to me :

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/FixturesResults/Round=1979/Match=80611/index.html

My team beat Newcastle!

[fundacion]

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Chelsea vs Liverpool,

As keegan would say 'i'd LOVE IT if...'

[vibe]

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It?s not from the Champions League, but this means a hell of a lot more to me :

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/FixturesResults/Round=1979/Match=80611/index.html

My team beat Newcastle!

congrats buddy, Sporting did it very well, they played very well