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The Football Ramble’s Guide To… Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona

Football Ramble

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The Uncontrollable Bits of Football

The Anfield crowd is really interesting. I remember Phil Thompson saying before Liverpool played Chelsea, Joe's a Mourinho's Chelsea in that semi-final with a ghost goal. The element of drama and entertainment is in the unknown. And for most people, if I may be so bold and talk about on behalf of most football fans, the uncontrollable bits are the bits that people like. Messi is in the first game, he's Ricky Ponting batting an old Trafford in 2005. Because all he has to do is be brilliant. But in the second game, especially when Barcelona start to wobble, he's looked out for his leadership. There are two very different parts of his character. It's

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