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After watching clips with that cunt Tyler almost crying when we score, the radio five commentary is amazing with the video added.

This will sound bitter but all these fans of other clubs offering their congratulations... fuck off! They've been taking the piss all season, singing about Gerrard's slip, cheering on Man City, rolling over for Man City, rubbing it in and generally acting like twats. Now you're trying to gate crash one of our greatest nights and join the party? This is our team, this is our moment. Fuck right off!

I'm on holiday at moment in Whitby and watched the game in the Whitby fishermans club. I had a fiver on us to win 4 0 with Ladbrokes at 40/1,It was my birthday and I was paying £4.90 for a pint and a gin and tonic ! What a performance from the team.still buzzing and nursing a massive hangover.

Everything changed last night. Successful people and organisations, whether they're great actors, bands, or even empires, elicit jealousy and resentment from those around them. But at certain points in history which are all too few, they achieve a level of such mastery that even their most bitter detractors have no choice but to sit back and admire their sheer magnificence. No talk of cheating, no jibes, nothing, just sheer dumbstruck respect and the acceptance that they're privileged to even be fans of the same sport in which such nights and feats are possible. Last night was when LFC broke English football.

Here are my post-match musings that I've just put on Facebook. ********************************************** This picture is from 13th December 2015. Fans of other clubs love to share it to have a good laugh at Liverpool. But let's remember the context. Jurgen Klopp had noticed a tendency at Anfield for the fans to get nervous, impatient and moany whenever things were going against the club. He spoke publicly of the need for the players, manager and fans to all pull together, especially when times got tough. Shortly afterwards, the Reds surrendered a lead and found themselves 2-1 down at home against West Brom. But instead of the usual eye-rolling and "here we go again" groans, the whole ground got behind the team. The players kept going and finally got an injury-time equaliser. Klopp and the players acknowledged the part that the crowd had played in helping the team to salvage a point. Ever since then, fans of other teams have chosen to misrepresent that moment as a celebration of a home draw against a pretty poor team. Oh, the laffs they've all had! But the truth is that that moment was a watershed. It cemented the bond between the fans, the players and the manager - each trusting the others and relying on each other to overcome adversity together. And payback for that simple gesture at the end of a frankly awful game is unforgettable, magical occasions like tonight. The kind of thing that other teams can't begin to dream of. Keep laughing, folks! PS Origi scored the late goal against the Baggies, too!

Aye..

Christ! how do some of you miserable cunts get out of the bed in the morning? Twenty four hours after what was probably the best display of football I've ever see from us and people are worried about who we got in the final, a final that nobody gave us a chance to be a part of after last week. I, for one, couldn't give a shit who we play in Madrid... We're fucking there, we're fucking Liverpool.

Jesus reading this forum you would think we are playing Man city, its Spurs yes it will be tough but we have got enough quality to beat them.

I've upset my mrs though I cant think the fuck why. After Kiev she booked us a hotel room in Madrid for 2 nights for 31/5 and 1/6, booking.com free cancellation,fair play to her. Anyway looked at flights straight after the game and could literally watch the prices go up like a fruit machine. She came up with some at about £2k for the pair, when I suggested I could get them for half that she asked how, I responded by telling her she could stay at fucking home. She go crazy

@Bob Spunkmouse @A_S

I know, and to think I was taking the piss when I posted this after last week's game...

Give us a shout if anyone wants any others

Everton Vs Spurs on Sunday, it'll be like a load of women seeing their husbands off before they go to war.

We twatted Barca 4-0 last night with Bobby and Mo out and now we're worried about fucking Spurs? Fuck that shit.

Aldo the big ledge

Just done the same. Apparently it did. Fuck. @Strontium Dog

Hello and welcome to this very special edition of the popular TLW fan-feature, TK's Ratings. The Reds entertained Barcelona in the second leg of this Champions League semi-final as the GOAT and his pals rocked into town to stroll deservedly through to the final after gaining a commanding lead in the first leg at la Camp el Nou. What they had not reckoned on was a night that will go down in LFC folklore alongside St Etienne, Olympiakos and that time Rafapool eeked out a 1-0 win against Southampton. Alisson Becker - 9. Dealt admirably with whatever came his way. There were some routine saves, and some not-so-routine saves. A couple of 1 v 1s, most notably with Suarez, were hoovered up. His anticipation and willingness to come off his line made it look easy. Trent Alexander Arnold - 9. What can you say? The visitors had a couple of moments of joy down his side in the first half. After that it was pure Trent. Those first time volleyed passes are a sight to behold. He saved the best until last when, seizing upon his own error, he took the ball to the byline and won a corner. The rest is history. Joel Matip - 8. Floated an iffy crossfield ball for the opening goal. Not a great pass, but good enough to disorientate Jordi Alba and set us on our way. He took a yellow for the team in the second half with a timely chop on Messi. Other than that he had a relatively quiet but effective game. Virgil van Dijk - 9. Excellent distribution and calmness personified. He's probably quiet a lot of other things personified. Together with his partner Matip, he mopped up some of Barca's long balls to keep us on the front foot. Those precision diagonal balls out to the flanks, that aerial dominance, those tree trunk thighs, those high cheekbones... *drool* Andrew Roberston - 8. Provided some excellent cover to the centre backs by being in the right place at the right time to deny Suarez in the first half. Got forward to good effect, as usual, and had a decent effort on goal but it was straight at Ter Stegen. Midway through the first half he joined the injury scare trend set by captain Jordan Henderson. Who wouldn't want to join a trend set by our inspirational captain? Not me, I can tell you that. It was enough to keep him out of the second half, where he sported a nice hooded top as he sat on the bench. David Cameron once famously said "hug a hoodie". Robbo would get a big hug from me. Fabinho - 8. Picked up a yellow card early on which somewhat hampered his ability to throw in the tackles, most notably when Messi broke through to set up ex-Red Coutinho for a very presentable chance. After that, it did not seem to adversely affect his game as he put in yet another dominant display. In my view, this game was won in the midfield battle and Fabinho was a big part of that. Jordan Henderson - 8. Linked well with Mane for the first goal, anticipating that Jordi Alba was in trouble and setting off on a run to link up with our Senegalese international. He showed great composure to skip past a couple of Barca challenges and dig out a shot with his left peg. Had an injury scare midway through the first half. Excellent reading of the game throughout and a nice bit of pressing which helped put us on the front foot for the second goal. He even tried spinning in the first half, that was a good trick. James Milner - 8. Set the tone in the very first minute with some harrying and tough tackling. Has anyone checked to see if he is German? This performance had "teutonic efficiency" scrawled all over it. Vorsprung durch Milner. Divock Origi - 9. He best game in a red shirt? Has to be up there. Followed in like all good strikers do for an easy tap in. There were a couple of occasions in the first half when his hold up play could have been better, but he eased himself into it and as the game went on the ball stuck, bringing others into play. Popped up at the end with another memorable winner from "that corner". These late winners are becoming his forte, which is a nice habit to have. I think I read somewhere that we might be prepared to let him go if an offer of £25m came in. No thanks, he is easily worth more and on current form I would not let him leave. Sadio Mane - 8. Did well to anticipate Jordi Alba's error for the opening goal. Never stopped working throughout, both defensively and in the high press. Xherdan Shaqiri - 7. He was the only player to fall below the standards set by the rest. Had a poor first half, too often giving away possession needlessly and can probably count himself lucky that it did not result in a decisive away goal. It was all a bit sloppy and careless. But he stuck to his task, and improved immeasurably after the break, most notably to put in a precision ball for the third goal. Substitutes Georginio Wijnaldum - 9. Introduced at half-time in place of the injured Robertson. One perfectly timed run into the box, one sweet header and suddenly it is 3-3 on aggregate. You just never know when he will pop up, do you? Produced a mesmerising turn late on in the game to take out three Barca players and set up another attack. For me, Wijnaldum is a highly underrated player. My final Gini-related observation is that I like the way Gary Linekar pronounced his surname. Joe Gomez - N/A. Came on with five minutes left to shore up the defence. Daniel Strurridge - N/A. Introduced to run the clock down. Manager Jurgen Klopp - 10. Missing two of his front three and lost Robertson at half time to injury. Okay, you could argue that the Wijnaldum game changing substitution was forced upon him, but whatever. He got everything right as far as I am concerned. To wrap up the contest inside 90 minutes without the need for extra time? It was perfection. And therefore Jurgen is the first person to pick up the elusive "10" rating. Congratulations Jurgen! (C) TK421 2019 - all rights reserved

Screamed loudly for each goal and the final whistle in the hallway last night. For the benefit of the Bloo family next door. After all, they wouldn't have known the score otherwise, so it was a public service. Actually, to be fair they are good neighbours, so it was probably a bit shitty. But I don't care.

Fuck him, the fucking cunt.

Martin Samuel Daily Mail - 'It could be a perfect ending - and they would deserve it like no team before' Better than Istanbul? Yes, go on then. It was better than Istanbul. Barcelona are better than AC Milan. Lionel Messi is better than Kaka. And Liverpool now are better than Liverpool then. Liverpool now are nothing less than astonishing. At the end of this wonderful, unbelievable, fantastical game, Jurgen Klopp linked arms with his players, facing The Kop as the whole of Anfield, including some among the bereft Catalan enclave, sung You’ll Never Walk Alone. One had the feeling this was the moment he had been working towards since the day he set foot on Merseyside. This spirit. This togetherness. This performance. This passion, this emotion: it was all here, every last drop of what he wanted top achieve. And yet, there is still such a long way to go. Suddenly, however, the potential disappointment of falling a point short to Manchester City on Sunday, did not appear so bleak. Liverpool will have something to play for beyond that. They will have a second consecutive Champions League final but, this time, not against the most experienced team in Europe. Liverpool will face the winners of tonight’s meeting between Tottenham and Ajax. It could be a perfect ending. Even if it is Manchester City’s season, it may be theirs too. And they would deserve it like no team before; they would deserve it as much as they did not deserve the three goal defeat at Nou Camp that had to be overturned on Tuesday night. The Times Henry Winter - 'the greatest night in Anfield's long and illustrious history' Unbelievable. Unforgettable. For years to come Liverpool fans will recall with pride and joy what their passionate, inspired team did here on the greatest night in Anfield's long and illustrious history. Liverpool overturned the 50-1 odds, they overwhelmed the great Lionel Messi, they overcame vaunted Barcelona. They reached the Champions League final when few outside Anfield gave them a chance. Inside Anfield a different mood pervades, one that entertains no doubts. This was supposedly mission impossible, but Liverpool believed. They knew what they were up against, the qiality of Messi, the cunning of Luis Suarez, the game management of Sergio Busquets and goalkeeping of Marc-Andre ter Stegen. They still believed. This is Anfield. This is what they do here. Jonathan Liew The Independent - 'Philippe Coutinho's parents are beginning to get worried.' Nobody has seen Philippe Coutinho for about half an hour and his parents are beginning to get worried. Luis Suarez is staring into space. To describe it as a thousand-yard stare would be to undersell it by an order of magnitude. Such is the sunkenness of his eyes, the emptiness of his glare, the blankness of his features, it wouldn’t be a surprise if he could see straight into his front room in Uruguay. From his expression alone, you wouldn’t know if he were watching a nuclear mushroom cloud, Chamberlain’s declaration of war on Germany or a video on dental etiquette. What’s just happened is that Gini Wijnaldum has headed Liverpool into a 3-0 lead on the night. Once again, this is a scenario that has been transcribed from the pages of pure fantasy. Jordi Alba doesn’t normally get tackled in his own corner, but this time he does. Ter Stegen doesn’t normally let shots squirm under his arm, but this time he does. Clement Lenglet doesn’t normally lose his man in the area, but this time he does. Gini Wijnaldum doesn’t normally score at all. He has one Champions League goal in his entire Liverpool career. Now he has two in the space of two minutes. The Times Matt Dickinson - 'Miraculous? of course, few of us, if anyone, saw it coming.' Football f*****g hell. But no-one minded when Jurgen Klopp dropped the f-bomb live on television. After this he could have stripped off and run around Anfield with his pants down and it all would have seemed part of his manic German charm. With that grin and this football he can get away with anything. What a night. What a triumph from Klopp and his Liverpool heroes: one to eclipse even that fabled Miracle of Istanbul in 2005, certainly as a superior team performance. Miraculous? of course, few of us, if anyone, saw it coming. Even Klopp must have had his doubts but central to his brilliance is the belief that he can instil in players. heck you feel ready to pull on your boots just listening to him in a press conference. Sam Wallace Daily Telegraph - 'No team does this in the second leg of a Champions League semi-final' Thus far unable to catch Pep Guardiola’s latest creation in the league, Liverpool took an almighty revenge on one he made earlier, and the history of this great club in European football may never be the same again. They thought they had written the book on the matter of comebacks in the Champions League – concerning that story you may have heard from 14 years earlier in Istanbul, although this one, it has to be said, bears comparison. Three goals down to the Barcelona of late-era Lionel Messi, his genius declared in no uncertain terms in the first leg, and yet by 10pm the world’s greatest player was heading back down the tunnel defeated, a man with a wild look in his eye. No team does this in the second leg of a Champions League semi-final without wondering if the hand of destiny is not ushering them down an alternative path to glory to the one they have chased all season. On Monday night, Manchester City edged the Premier League just a little further from Liverpool’s grasp which felt monumental - and then came Tuesday night when the response at Anfield was, quite frankly, stupendous. How did this happen? Klopp reflected later, “I said to the boys before the game, ‘I don't think it's possible but because it's you we have a chance"'.

I think the main problem is some people have attached unrealistic expectations on him. He's a 20 year old kid, and with maybe the exception of a keeper, defence is the hardest place for a player to come through. You rarely see someone his age starting for a club as big as Liverpool in defence. Three best right backs I've seen play are Cafu, Thuram and Zanetti. Cafu was 27 when he got his move to Roma. Thuram 24 when he got his move to Italy. Zanetti 22 when he moved to Inter. Trent is going to end the season with 85 games under his belt at the age of 20. He'll have played in two champions league finals, a world cup and been a key part of the team responsible for our best points total. He's a phenomenon. So yeah, he might get roasted now and again by some Cardiff bit part player but that's all part of growing up. Imagine what he'll be like in two or three years. He'd almost be wasted as a right back if Klopp didn't place so much importance on the fullback position. I'm still shaking my head over the corner last night. Fucking unbelievable.

Obviously we play a different type of footy to City - Their playmakers are in the middle of the park and ours and at fullback - but the one thing they had last season (well apart from a keeper that could actually keep the ball out of the net) that I envied was Fernandinho. Just the kind of snide, shithouse centre mid that we've missed since Mascherano went. Well we've got our own Fernandinho now, and some. He's top class in the air, absolutely dominates any high balls into midfield. Great tackler with the kind of telescopic legs we've missed since Momo and fantastic with the ball. Rarely wastes a pass and is always looking to be progressive with his balls forward. Fucking love him.

I've just watched it backwards -- nil - nil now. Gonna be tough.

Giving serious consideration to getting Dave’s match report tattooed on my back.

Now if Martin Tyler is found in some Michael Hutchence type incident, that would cap the night off for me.

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i went with 4-0

Lighten up

A few days ago Ajax were a great side, and we were out. Now they’re shit and we’re in the final.

Not sure about this “almost certain win”. They did beat both Real and Juve. They could’ve also easily gone through tonight. Spurs will be a tough game, but Ajax wouldn’t have been a walkover.

Cannot believe what i’m reading here. Listening to some we might as well not go to Madrid. Fuckadoodledoo people.

Leon Momento Pulp Fiction Goodfellas Shawshank Redemption Godfather: Part II LA Confidential Anchorman Trainspotting The Truman Show What an incredibly non-eclectic mix of films. Bet I'll be backheeling myself in the bollocks when I see someone posting some films I forgot.

MrsD can go in the summer

Ajax Liverpool is a proper European royalty final. Spurs being there would cheapen the sense of occasion a touch. Not any victory, but the magic around the game itself. Europe’s not about playing other English teams, especially not in the final.

@Anubis @Babb'sBurstNad Funnily enough not too much footage around of our Phil last night..

Overrated.

Barca players rolling around in the first leg, kicking the ball out instead of giving it back and Suarez being a snide cunt last night makes it all even sweeter. We were better than them in the first leg too. Fuck Barcelona.

Today’s stadium article will assess the feasibility of making it an 80,000 capacity.

I’m fucked 5hrs sleep. Watching this I still get tears in my eyes. Fuck me what a night.

Anfield, people, Anfield. Every other venue in world sport lives in the shadow of Anfield. Inter. St-Etienne. Chelsea. Barcelona. If FSG did fuck all apart from decide to stay at Anfield, they did right by Liverpool FC.

"Once Everton has touched you..."