Man United bias Man United's first European Cup win comes in first place.... obviously. Must have been very difficult winning a European trophy in your own country. Much more difficult than, for example, going to Rome to play Roma in the European Cup final and winning Liverpool supporters have reacted with disbelief to a poll published in FourFourTwo magazine detailing the Top 50 European football moments ever. The latest issue of the magazine - which is published by the same company who publish the Manchester United matchday programme - have included a '50 Greatest European Moments' supplement this month and the contents have caused outrage with many Reds supporters. Sporting a massive picture of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on the front cover, the magazine goes on to countdown the top 50 finest footballing moments between clubs from across the continent. While any list of this sort will also cause disagreements, Liverpool supporters have noted that the list fails to even mention our European Cup finals triumphs in 1978 and 1981. According to FourFourTwo, those two feats were obviously not as memorable as the night Barry Town goalkeeper Lee Kendall took to the pitch in a UEFA Cup preliminary round first leg tie against Boavista without a shirt number on his back. Or when Celtic took a few fans to Seville for the 2003 UEFA Cup final. There's no mention either of the game that many people believe was the greatest European final ever - our 5-4 win over Alaves in 2001. If Gary McAllister's dramatic free-kick - headed into the Alaves net by one of their own defenders - to seal the game for Liverpool on the Golden Goal rule was not one of the '50 Greatest European Moments' then you're either a Manchester United supporter or the editor of this ridiculous supplement. Liverpool do make it into the list on a couple of occasions although there's no place for David Fairclough's dramatic 'Sup Sub' appearance against St Etienne. Our European Cup final triumph in 1977 against Borussia Monchengladbach limps into the list at No.37 - three places behind Tottenham's European Cup Winners' Cup win of 1963 - while our historic win in Rome against Roma is only worthy of No.23 in the list. Bruce Grobbelaar's wobbly legs penalty routine mustn't have made too much of an impression on the Manchester United programme publishers who, at No.25, decided to include the reception the Old Trafford fans handed out to Ronaldo at Old Trafford. Obviously the fact that the Kop have applauded opposition players off the pitch for decades must have been missed. That Liverpool fans chanted 'Alaves, Alaves' for 10 minutes when the losing team went up to collect their medals earned the Merseyside supporters a Fair Play award from UEFA was obviously not as deserving as a few claps for Ronaldo at Old Trafford. And in case you were wondering where Manchester United's two European Cup final triumphs sit in the Top 50? No.9 (1999) and No.1 (1968), obviously. "How on earth does a round of applause for a fat Brazilian become a great footballing moment?" commented one Liverpool supporter. "No mention of our 5-10 minutes of chanting 'Alaves' as they collected their losers' medals, I suppose. Mind you, if a nine-goal final isn't worthy in itself, then a gesture which won the UEFA Fair Play award isn't going to be, is it?" Another Liverpool fan on the club's official message boards said: "How on earth could any of our four poor European Cup triumphs match up to United's tremendous and well-deserved 1999 Champions League win? We all know how difficult that competition is compared to the old style - and easy to win - European cup."
Re: Man United bias But that was the 1st time an English team had won it and only 10 years after the team was decimated by the Munich air disaster
Re: Re: Man United bias So that equates best European moment EVER? Fans clapping Ronaldo off more memorable than Liverpool retaining the European Cup? What about Nott Forest (as much as I dislike them due to Cloughie)? 1977 Promoted to First Division; 1978 Win First Division; 1979 Win European Cup.
Re: Man United bias Real Madrid 7 - 3 Eintracht Frankfurt European Cup Final in Glasgow in 1960... not the greatest final ever... but the greatest GAME ever...
Re: Man United bias That's a crock of biased shit too mate. The Alaves game was a good game but by no means merits critical aclaim. You were nearly beaten by a pish team with a star man in the form of Jordi Cruyff.
Re: Re: Man United bias Of course it's biased. Difference being, it's taken from a Liverpool website, and not from a national magazine. Hey at least we managed to be that 'pish' team
Re: Re: Re: Man United bias Most of your young team killed then within 10 years winning the European Cup. I'd say that was a pretty high achievement
Re: Re: Re: Man United bias hahaha, what a STUPID post. We pissed all over you at Anfield on our road to that final.
