Great news for Liverpool fans...

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1978

Pope Dies.

Wales Win the Grand Slam

Liverpool win the European Cup

2005

Pope Dies

Wales win the Grand Slam

:eek:

Aquos76

Very interesting stat, Mind you it will be some achievement if Liverpool can go on and win the Champions League this year.

I for one wish them the best of luck.

egan007

LOL - nice one

p.pete

Also in 78 we lost the league cup to the eventual league winners (notts forerst). This year we lost it to Chelsea

Also in 78 we won the European cup semi against a german team - maybe Chelsea will lose 2-0 tonight (or something similar...)

Chucky the tree

excellent.


so its in the bag then yea?

Caesar_Bojangle

Maybe not.

chelsea are winning 1-0 atm

wheres me jumpa

the pope is dead??!

galwaydude

chelsea are through to the next round so thats the theory busted . Hope liverpool do us proud tonight, we can do it lads!!!!!!

p.pete

galwaydude wrote:

chelsea are through to the next round so thats the theory busted . Hope liverpool do us proud tonight, we can do it lads!!!!!!

Well not really, the info was originally sent to me without the German team semi-final bit - so I'll retract it if that helps? It was only my inquisative nature that had me check who we played in the semi in 78. We can take Chelsea over 2 legs, we've shown well against them so far this season and have deserved a greater return, maybe this will be the return. Just the small matter of getting through tonight, which I'm more then slightly nervous about and a little less then slightly confident

galwaydude

i know if we win tonight and hope the god we do. We can beat chelsea over the two as there wasnt much between the sides when met in the league and the carling cup.
The team needs to make an enormous effort like last week.If players like garcia, carragher, hyppia and baros etic play to their maximum we should hold on for a draw. Hope there is no trouble like last night at the san siro especially if we are winning tonight.

The Muppet

galwaydude wrote:

i know if we win tonight and hope the god we do. We can beat chelsea over the two as there wasnt much between the sides when met in the league and the carling cup.
.

Indeed, Stephen Gerrard was the difference in the carling cup, if you can stop him Chelsea have no chance.

p.pete

The Muppet wrote:

Indeed, Stephen Gerrard was the difference in the carling cup, if you can stop him Chelsea have no chance.

Don't worry, he'll be kept out of the team in the run-in til the end of the season by Richie Partridge :rolleyes:

The Muppet

p.pete wrote:

Don't worry, he'll be kept out of the team in the run-in til the end of the season by Richie Partridge :rolleyes:

Is Richie related to you? You seem to be a big fan of his.

p.pete

The Muppet wrote:

Is Richie related to you? You seem to be a big fan of his.

by only 6 degrees of seperation - fellow Dubliner, sure he's pure class

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No wait, I know someone who knows him - that'd make one degree of seperation, right?

Villain

The Final - May 10th 1978

Liverpool 1 FC Bruges 0

Team : Clemence, Neal, Thompson, Hansen, Kennedy, Hughes, Dalglish, Case (Heighway), Fairclough, McDermott, Souness

When you compare that team to the current pool team I think a repeat of 1978 is very slim.

The Rooster

4 times Juve have lost the first leg of a European tie 2-1 away from home.

All 4 times they've overturned the deficit at home and gone through :eek:

p.pete

irish1 wrote:

When you compare that team to the current pool team I think a repeat of 1978 is very slim.

Depends on how you look at it - the final will probably be against AC Milan and not FC Bruges, so I think that gives us lots of hope *fingers crossed Schevchenko gets a 3 match ban*.

The Muppet

irish1 wrote:

When you compare that team to the current pool team I think a repeat of 1978 is very slim.

Not to mention the quality of the opposition but we won't go there again. To be realistic Juve have to be favourites to go through only needing a home win. I'm looking forward to the game though , the first half of the first leg was a cracker more of the same would be great to watch.

The Rooster

Yes no point going there again Muppet, especially as you have no idea how good or bad Bruges (and Belgian football) were back then. If they are crap now, they must have been crap then :rolleyes:

If it had been Juventus that Liverpool beat that year, you wouldnt have made such a ridiculous comment, just because Juve are a good team now.

But of course you had obviously no clue that Bruges actually beat Juve in the semi-final that year.

BaZmO*

I was told this fact in the pub last night and thought it was quite amusing.

I was also told back in 2001 that Spurs had won the FA Cup in

1901
1921
1961
1981
1991

Stupidly enough I put a bet on them to win it and they got beat in the Semi-final by Arsenal.

B.

TheMonster

The Rooster wrote:

Yes no point going there again Muppet, especially as you have no idea how good or bad Bruges (and Belgian football) were back then. If they are crap now, they must have been crap then :rolleyes:

Yes Liverpool are a perfect example of this - only reversed

Sorry couldn't resist

p.pete

TheMonster wrote:

Yes Liverpool are a perfect example of this - only reversed

Sorry couldn't resist

are you trying to be nice

If Liverpool were excellent (the opposite of crap) then they must be excellent now

Pigman II

Looks like 3-0 to Juventus then! I always rip up my stubs when I see the 'look at this for a coincidence' messages offered up as positive omens for a team.

Take it

do i snif Man United fans are jelous your JELOUS hehehe

only thing ill say is

GWAN THE POOL!!!!!

and actually if juve win 2-1 it goes to extra time:)

Lex Luthor

Ken & Deirdre also got married in 1978

cournioni

Take it wrote:

do i snif Man United fans are jelous your JELOUS hehehe

Thats right we are jelous.

p.pete

Pigman II wrote:

Looks like 3-0 to Juventus then! I always rip up my stubs when I see the 'look at this for a coincidence' messages offered up as positive omens for a team.

Juve had won all their home games 1-0 in the CL this season - don't tell my you backed that?

Pigman II

p.pete wrote:

Juve had won all their home games 1-0 in the CL this season - don't tell my you backed that?

No I had 0-0 but when I saw this thread I thought '****'. Thankfully I didn't actually rip up anything.

fade2black

Well done to all the pool fans. I will say one thing about ye....You have some super support. (Those scarves were impressive)