Email from
Tanya on Thursday 26th May 2005
"I went to the pub last night with some peeps from my old
work
There was a huge football game on - Liverpool v AC Milan in Istanbul
- it was the Champions League Football Final
Liverpool were down 3-0 at half time
They then scored 3 in the second half and it went to extra time
No one scored in extra time so it went to a penalty shootout which
they won
The place went off!!
After usual time two blokes got up on the bar
and led the entire pub in a rendition of the Liverpool song
There were chants going on the whole time - we may as well have
been at the game!!
Apparently 30,000 people Liverpool fans were at the game
and at least another 5,000 just went to Turkey to be there for
the game
A lot of people travel with Australian sports teams - but 35,000
is a pretty good support base!
Bearing in mind that a standard game is two fourty-five minute
halves,
and extra time is two fifteen minute halves,
and then time for penalties - it was a long night!!!
It was a top game and it was standing room only in the pub
We got there at 6.00pm (the game started at 8.00pm) and got a
table and chairs so we were fine
I didn't have one drink all night because it was too hard to get
to the bar!!
A friend of mine from basketball at home Jonathon Foreman
arrived on Monday and met us at the pub
He said that it was the first full game of football that he has
watched
and prolly couldn't have had a better initiation!"
Revelling Reds
finish city parade
Liverpool's triumphant players
have paraded the Champions League trophy to more than a million
people.
Fresh from a penalties win over AC Milan, the team arrived at
John Lennon Airport and boarded an open-top bus.
They were welcomed by 750,000 cheering fans, who created a sea
of bright red along the streets of Liverpool.
And by the time the bus finally arrived at its destination in
the city centre, there were an estimated 300,000 gathered around
St George's Hall.
Liverpool's dramatic victory, a penalty shoot-out win over AC
Milan after being three goals down, sparked joyous scenes both
in Istanbul and back in Britain
VIDEO
"Liverpool
parade makes its way past Anfield"
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Version #9 is necessary, and it can be downloaded for free by
clicking
here * the video runs for approx 10
minutes * make sure your speakers are on
