"Football legend Diego Maradona was so enthralled with the pbuttion of the Liverpool fans and the incredible comeback in Istanbul that he has now become an adopted scouser and is a Liverpool fan. Maradona, one of the greatest players the world has ever seen, says Liverpool were a credit to football and gave a perfect example of what the game is all about.
Gotta sayThe clbutt of the Milan players(90% of them anyway) in defeat,commenting in the aftermath of the game has been of...
Maradona was in Istanbul working for Argentine TV and said: "The English club proved that miracles really do exist. I've now made Liverpool my English team. They showed that football is the most beautiful sport of all.
"You knew they could defend but the team showed they could play too and wrote a page in the history books. The match will last forever.
"The Liverpool supporters didn't let me go to sleep the night before, there were 10 of them to every three Milan supporters. They showed their unconditional support at half-time when they were losing 3-0 and still they didn't stop singing."
The Argentine legend believes even the Brazil 1970 World Cup winning side - widely considered the best the world has ever seen - would not have been able to achieve it.
"Even the Brazil team that won the 1970 World Cup could not have staged a comeback with Milan leading 3-0," he told Italy's Sky channel
Liverpool were trailing Milan 3-0 at half-time in Istanbul before three goals in the space of six mad minutes saw the Reds draw level, before they forced the game to a penalty shoot-out.
Racism 1396Come on - surely you can see that "white pride" and its, to say the least, butt...
Rafael Benitez's side then held their nerve in the lottery of spot-kicks to claim their fifth European title and deny Milan a seventh.
"I am disappointed as anyone who has played in Italy would be," said the former Napoli and Argentina favourite. "At 3-0 Milan were convinced that no-one could come back.
"But what has happened has happened. Milan never stopped playing and Shevchenko could have won it in extra-time (when Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek made a superb double save).
"I have seen comebacks like that in football but never against a team that so clearly was superior as Milan were."
High praise for the Merseysiders from one of football's best ever players, who has hailed their remarkable fightback as the greatest of all time."
Racism 1397white so Spot on! Like it or not, we are burdened with the past. I also get...
-- "Luis Garcia laughed off suggestions that a Spanish referee would help the Reds in the CL final."
