General Football Thread

And staying in Italy.
This year even saw Roma win both the Italian Cup for the 8th time and the Italian Super Cup for the 2nd time by defeating cup holders and league champions Inter Milan. The first leg of the Final on Wednesday, 5 May, had Roma beat Inter 6-2 at home followed by the second leg on Thursday, 17 May, Inter beat Roma 2-1, thus handing the Italian Cup to Roma and finally on Sunday, 19 August, Roma beat Inter 2-0 in Milan to win the Super Cup.

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edge_of_the_wire said:
And staying in Italy.
This year even saw Roma win both the Italian Cup for the 8th time and the Italian Super Cup for the 2nd time by defeating cup holders and league champions Inter Milan. The first leg on Wednesday, 5 May, Roma beat Inter 6-2 at home followed by the second leg on Thursday, 17 May, Inter beat Roma 2-1, thus handing the Italian Cup to Roma and finally on Sunday, 19 August, Roma beat Inter 2-0 in Milan to win the Super Cup.

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"STATTO STATTO STATTO"
 
edge_of_the_wire said:
Firstly, on Wednesday, 23 May, Milan was crowned European champions for the 7th time after beating Liverpool 2-1 in the U.E.F.A. Champions League Final held in Athens, Greece. This match is a repeat from the 2005 Final
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.....which Liverpool won on Penalties after looking down and out after going 3-0 down..

And not exactly a repeat...... the 2005 game was in Istanpool :roll:
 
Although one of my favourite teams Barcelona did not win major trophies this year, it managed to win two pre-season tournaments. On Wednesday, 15 August, Barcelona won the Franz Beckenbauer Cup after defeating Bayern Munich 1-0 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, which is also the Bayern midfielder Mehmet Scholl's farewell match. Then, on Wednesday, 29 August, it won the Joan Gamper Trophy for the 32nd time after destroying Italian giants Inter Milan 5-0 courtesy of goals from Ronaldinho (7), Giovani (11), Yaya Touré (37), Andrés Iniesta (56) and Thiago Motta, who sealed victory in the 78th minute. The last match, however, starts with a moment of silence to honour both the late Nicolau Casaus, former Barcelona vice-president, and Antonio Puerta, Sevilla midfielder, who died the day before the match.
Well done Barça!

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:err: If you cant beat em

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In 1891 John Houlding, the leaseholder of Anfield stadium, purchased the
ground outright and proposed increasing the rent from £100 to £250 per
year.Everton F.C. moved to Goodison Park after a seven year tenancy.
Liverpool F.C. were founded by Houlding on 15 March 1892 to play in his
vacated Anfield. The original name was to be Everton F.C. and Athletic
Grounds, Ltd., or Everton Athletic for short, but was changed to Liverpool
F.C. when The Football Association refused to recognise the team as
Everton. John McKenna was appointed director and signed thirteen
Scottish professionals for the new club.

In their first season Liverpool won the Lancashire League, and were
elected to the Football League Second Division for the 1893–94 season.
Liverpool ended the season unbeaten as Second Division Champions, and
were promoted to the First Division, the highest level of English football.
Liverpool won their first Football League championship in 1901, and were
champions again in 1906. Liverpool played their first FA Cup final in 1914,
but lost 1–0 to Burnley.


In 1922 and 1923 Liverpool won their first back-to-back League titles,
captained by England full-back Ephraim Longworth. This was then followed
by the longest spell without a trophy in the team's history, which only
ended when Liverpool won the league once again in 1947. However,
Liverpool struggled in the years following this success, and were relegated
to the Second Division in 1954, where they suffered their record defeat,
9–1 against Birmingham City in December 1954.

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In December 1959, Bill Shankly was appointed manager. Over the next
fifteen years he transformed Liverpool into one of the top club sides in
Europe. In his first year, he released twenty-four players and reshaped
the squad. In 1962, his third season as manager, Liverpool won the
Second Division Championship by eight points and were promoted to the
top division, where they have remained ever since.

Having started the 1960s in the Second Division, Liverpool would end the
decade as a major domestic power. In 1964, Liverpool lifted the League
Championship for the first time in seventeen years. Liverpool were League
Champions again in 1966, having won their first FA Cup in the previous
season, beating Leeds United 2–1 in the final. Liverpool won their eighth
league title and defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach to win their first
European trophy, the UEFA Cup, in 1973. However, a year later, following
another FA Cup victory, Shankly retired. His assistant, Bob Paisley, was
offered the chance to manage the team.

In 1976, at the end of Paisley's second season in charge, Liverpool
became champions, and also won the UEFA Cup. The following year,
Liverpool retained their League Championship, lost the FA Cup Final, but
won their first European Cup. The final was played in Rome, and Liverpool
defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach 3–1. In 1978 Liverpool retained the
trophy, beating Club Brugge 1–0 in the final at Wembley, and in 1979 they
broke another domestic record by winning the league title with sixty-eight
points[16] and only sixteen goals conceded in forty-two matches.

In 1980, Liverpool won the league title for the fourth time in five seasons,
and Paisley's third European Cup victory came in 1981 with a 1–0 victory
in the final against Real Madrid in Paris. In the following two seasons,
Liverpool won a League Championship and League Cup "double". In the
nine seasons Paisley managed the club, Liverpool won a total of twenty-
one trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup, six league titles
and three consecutive League Cups. The only domestic trophy to elude
him was the FA Cup.

The succession of managers appointed from within the club's staff is
worthy of note. These managers are often referred to as "the boot room
boys" after a part of Anfield where the Liverpool staff discussed strategy
and allegedly stored gin. Just as Shankly had been succeeded by Paisley,
so too Paisley handed the reins to his assistant, veteran coach Joe Fagan.
He was 63 when he became manager in 1983. In his first season in
charge, Liverpool become the first English club to win three major trophies
in a single season — the League title, the League Cup and the European
Cup.

In 1985 Liverpool again reached the European Cup final. The match was
against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium but before kick-off, disaster
struck. Liverpool fans breached a fence separating the two groups of
supporters and charged the Juventus fans. The resulting weight of people
caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing thirty-nine fans, mostly
Italians.This tragedy is known as the Heysel Stadium disaster. The match
was played regardless and Liverpool lost 1–0 to Juventus. English clubs
were consequently banned from participating in European competition for
five years, with Liverpool receiving a ban for ten years, which was later
reduced to six. Fourteen of their fans received convictions for involuntary
manslaughter.

In 1985 Kenny Dalglish became Liverpool's first player-manager. His reign
saw the club win another three League Championships and two FA Cups
including a league and cup double in 1985–86. However, Liverpool's
successes were overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster. On 15 April
1989, when Liverpool were playing Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi–
final, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing.
94 fans died that day and another fan died in hospital from his injuries
four days later, and a fan died nearly four years later having never
regained consciousness, to make the total 96.

After the Hillsborough tragedy there was a governmental review of
stadium safety. Known as the Taylor Report, it paved the way for
legislation requiring all-seater stadiums in the top-flight. The report ruled
that the main reasons for the disaster were overcrowding due to a failure
of police control.

1991 saw Graeme Souness installed as manager. However, apart from an
FA Cup win in his first season, his reign was not successful. After a shock
exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Bristol City at Anfield, "Boot room"
veteran Roy Evans took over. While his tenure saw some improvement in
league form, in his five seasons the club never finished higher than third.
Evans' only trophy was the 1995 League Cup. Gérard Houllier, the former
French national coach, was drafted into the Liverpool management team
for the 1998–99 season to work alongside Roy Evans, but the partnership
did not work out and Evans resigned in November 1998.


2000–01 was Liverpool's best season for many years as the team
completed a unique treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. They
finished second in 2002, a year in which Houllier suffered heart problems
throughout the season and this resulted in him having to miss a match
with Leeds and undergo major heart surgery. Liverpool looked like
becoming a force in English Football once again, but Houllier would only
win one more trophy in his time in charge, another League Cup in 2003.
Against a background of growing disquiet amongst Liverpool supporters,
Houllier and Liverpool parted by mutual consent at the end of the 2003–04
season.

Spaniard Rafael Benítez took over and in his first season Liverpool finished
a disappointing fifth in the Premier League. The season had a surprising
ending, however, as Liverpool won their fifth European Cup final in
Istanbul. The Reds met the heavily favoured Italian club A.C. Milan in an
astonishing final. Liverpool trailed 3–0 at half time, but made a dramatic
comeback by scoring three goals in a period of only six minutes in the
second half, forcing extra time. Liverpool went on to win the penalty shoot-
out, with goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek conceding only two of Milan's five
penalties.

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In 2005–06 Liverpool picked up eighty-two points in the Premiership, their
highest points total in the top-flight since 1988. They ended the season by
winning the FA Cup in yet another dramatic final, this time against West
Ham. Liverpool trailed 3–2 until Captain Steven Gerrard scored an
equalizer from 35 yards as the PA system was announcing injury time.
Liverpool went on to win the match in a penalty shoot-out.

On February 6, 2007, the club's search for investment came to an end
when American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the
owners of Liverpool F.C. in a deal worth £470 million. Liverpool finished
the season in third place in the Premiership for the second consecutive
season. Benitez did guide Liverpool to the 2006–07 UEFA Champions
League final on May 23, 2007 after Pepe Reina made two saves in the
penalty kick shootout in the semi-final against Chelsea F.C. Facing AC
Milan once again in the final, Liverpool lost 2–1.
 
Saturday, 26th May. A dark day for league champs VfB Stuttgart after it lost 3-2 to Nuremberg at the 2007 German Cup Final in Berlin. Armin Veh's side could have won the match and Stuttgart would have added the German Cup alongside the league title to its silverware collection. Nuremberg, the 9-time German champions, won this year's German Cup for the 4th time.

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Join em...
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Mark Viduka in action
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And to England where this team has driven me to Alcoholism on a regular basis...mostly around 1992 when almost relegated from the old Division 2
( Now championship ) blowing a 12 point lead when cruising to the Premier League title in 95...& into a bumbling wreck with not one 4-3 reverse at Liverpool but Bloody TWO!!!...& constantly fukin it up when it really matters...except very rare occasions hence why we havent one a domestic trophy since 1955 & any major trophy since 1969..... & not likely to for years anyway so cheers...alot more drinking to come!!!!!!! :cheers:
& if they don't beat that lot from down the road....
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Then i won't be worth knowing for days...& will see you all in AA next week........
 
Saturday, 28th July. Bayern Munich won the German or Premiere League Cup (Premiere-Ligapokal) for the 6th time after beating Schalke 04 1-0 in the Final held in Leipzig. German international Miroslav Klose, who joined Bayern Munich from Werder Bremen, scored the only goal of the match in the 29th minute. It looks like Bayern had won a trophy this year under new coach Ottmar Hitzfeld. Good work!

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Saturday, 31 March. Lyon's hopes of winning the French League Cup for the 2nd time dashed after it lost 1-0 to Bordeaux in the Final in Paris. Lyon last won the League Cup back in 2001 while Bordeaux a year later.

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Saturday, 12th May. The night Sochaux won the French Cup (Coupe de France) for the 2nd time when it beat Marseille 5-4 on penalties in the Final in Paris after both teams drew 2-2.

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