by Luis Tue May 01, 2007 3:59 pm
Some comments from 2005
The Liverpool crowd had done an astonishing thing. They made Chelsea play worse than they can, they made Liverpool play better than they can, they made the referee turn a crucial decision their way. That's 23 people all behaving in the way that the Liverpool crowd wished. It was, in the most literal sense, a triumph of hope over expectation. There's a lot of guff written about football crowds, particularly Liverpool's. But the fact is, the tradition of a club is not in the hands or even the feet of players, or managers, hirelings all, who will be off the minute a better offer comes along. No one in football has loyalty to anyone, or is expected to. Only supporters have loyalty. They are not loyal to persons or institutions so much as loyal to loyalty itself. And with Liverpool, the loyalty passed the test of time.[/b]
Simon Barnes, The Times
Liverpool fans are good and they know it. A walk down Anfield Road late on Tuesday night was a walk down memory lane. The current generation of supporters may have tired of listening to their fathers' fireside stories about the Paisley years, but they never lost the taste for world domination or shed their superiority complex. They all volunteered noisily for selection as Liverpool's 12th man. The heady atmosphere inside the stadium provided the oxygen for their tireless resistance but the players won the game.
Clive Tyldesley, Daily Telegraph
Anfield has exploded down the years but surely this was volume to rival anything heard before. Part joy, part tension, part release, the stadium erupted. As Jose Mourinho said afterwards: "The power of Anfield Road, I felt it.”
Michael Walker, The Guardian
Anfield had surpassed the noise level of Stamford Bridge half an hour before kick-off and the Kop was only a quarter full. Packed, it proved an awesome 12th man.
Andy Hunter, Daily Post
The atmosphere at Anfield on Tuesday night and for the quarter-final against Juventus was sensational - better than anything I experienced in my time as a player. Those people who said the supporters would be a 12th man were spot on.
Alan Hansen, Daily Telegraph
Chelsea and their billionaire owner learnt last night that there are some things money cannot buy. Mourinho had shaken his head when asked whether the Kop could be the opposition's twelfth man, but instead they proved to be Liverpool's ninth, tenth and eleventh, inspiring players to play like the immortals that they might now become.
Oliver Kay, The Times
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but if chelsea score early on our fans won't make a tiny bit of difference 
