Original subtitles

[dramatic theme music playing]

[music ends]

[fans chanting]

- [interviewer] Can you see anything? - Yeah.

- [cameraman] Getting ready to roll. - [interviewer] What can you see?

Champions League final in Istanbul.

2005.

[tense music playing]

[commentator] We're about to get underway here.

Liverpool against AC Milan.

Just nervous watching this.

[Andy Gray] No one gave Liverpool any chance whatsoever

at the start of this campaign.

If someone would have told me

we would be in the Champions League final,

I'd have thought you were a madman.

We were a very average team.

But we'd been on this magical journey that we didn't expect,

and we were now in Istanbul.

[commentator] Liverpool standing on the threshold of history

but against a star-studded Milan team.

Wow. That's what we face.

[crowd cheering]

[Steven Gerrard] Every single player was world-class.

[commentator] Listen to this atmosphere.

They're really going to make themselves heard tonight.

We felt the expectation from the Liverpool fans.

[Hamann] There was that weight on your shoulders of a whole city

waiting for that final for so long.

[commentator] Tonight is the chance to make up for lost time.

Twenty-one years waiting for this major trophy.

[Carragher] The closer you get to the kick-off,

the more you start believing you can win.

We knew this was our chance to create history.

[whistle blowing]

[commentator] And it's in!

It's two-nil Milan!

And it is three-nil!

[Carragher] The biggest game of your life

is turning into

the biggest nightmare of your life.

[commentator] This could be the heaviest ever defeat in a Champions League final.

[co-commentator] They've been outclassed. Totally outclassed.

At three-nil, it is over.

[whistle blowing]

[commentator] There is the half-time whistle.

[Carragher] I'd never felt more low as a footballer.

We were going to create history for all the wrong reasons.

[commentator] This is just absolutely awful for Liverpool.

[co-commentator] They're absolutely all over the place.

This is very, very embarrassing.

You've got to get into that dressing room, and get hold of it.

[commentator] No chance really for Liverpool.

Liverpool need a miracle here.

[Carragher] Since that night, I can't go anywhere in the world

without someone asking me what happened at half-time.

[players shouting]

The question I always get is, "What happened at half-time?"

I'm still trying to work it out.

[commentator] Just when you think you've seen it all.

[seagulls squawking]

What I notice on a lot of documentaries now, this bit now,

where it's all like quiet, that gets shot a bit, and gets put in.

[coughs] While they're waiting for the first question.

Pensive.

[sound man] Give us a few words will you, Jamie?

Liverpool, Istanbul, AC Milan, Netflix, blockbuster.

[sound man] Banging. Sold it at the end.

[interviewer] So, where would you start this story, Jamie?

Uh…

For me,

the story starts miles away from Liverpool,

in the summer of 2004,

in Portugal.

[fans cheering]

[reporter] In Lisbon tonight, the England team bus took the players

to a heavily guarded hotel on a hill

that they hope will be their home until early July.

[gentle, melodic music playing]

[Carragher] It's the European Championships.

I'm there with the England squad,

alongside Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard from Liverpool.

Even though we're there with England,

all three of us used to think about Liverpool a lot.

- [photographer] Just a bit forward, Jamie. - Yeah.

I found it difficult to switch off from the club.

[photographer] Straight down the lens.

Jamie Carragher, defender.

Maybe one of the reasons why England were never that successful.

Steven Gerrard, midfielder.

- [interviewer] Are you all right there? - Yeah, I'm fine.

I'm going to have a sore backside eventually, but I'm all right for now.

[photographer] Just look straight down the lens,

and say, "Michael Owen, striker."

- Where am I facing? Square on? - [interviewer] Face me, yeah.

All three of us, we'd all been at Liverpool since we were that big.

Some will say I haven't grown much since.

Liverpool Football Club ran through our veins.

This is my bed and my side of the room

where I keep posters to remind me of Liverpool.

We would die for Liverpool Football Club.

[reporter] When did you come to Liverpool? When did you first come?

I was about nine or ten.

[reporter] What number would you like to wear at this club when you make it?

Number eight.

There's something special and a bit different when you come through the ranks.

There's definitely more of a bond.

There's more of a feeling of loyalty and wanting to do well for the club.

Liverpool Football Club was my love and passion.

We lived and breathed it, and loved it and dreamt about it.

In Portugal, there was a little bit of uncertainty around the Liverpool players.

[Carragher] Our manager's gone.

Liverpool manager's gone.

After six seasons in charge,

the manager of Liverpool has left the club.

The first manager to be sacked by the club since 1959.

When I was a kid, Liverpool were one of the best teams in Europe.

Four European Cups.

[commentator 1] Liverpool are European Champions for the fourth time.

We'd fell a long way from that.

We were not competing with the top teams.

[commentator 2] Pulled back and it's put in for an own goal! Despair for the Reds!

The league form was average, cup form was average.

Performances were not very good.

[commentator 3] Oh, that was wild.

[commentator 4] And it's gone in! Humiliating for Liverpool.

[Owen] The team, there were some players in there that you think,

"If Liverpool are going to win a trophy, they have to change that player…"

You feel frustrated that we're not winning.

[commentator 5] Steven Gerrard is sent off!

That was a challenge that…

perhaps shows the frustration that he's been feeling.

Everybody would have felt that frustration.

We'd fallen away. How do we arrest the slide?

[commentator 6] I grew up on Liverpool dominating.

- Will they ever compete again at the top? - [co-commentator] You've got no chance.

[fan on radio] I'm absolutely disgusted. I've been crying this afternoon.

The Liverpool motto used to be, "First is best and second's nothing."

I really do think that there needs to be some new thinking at Anfield.

[reporter] For the Liverpool players at the England training camp,

the departure of the manager from Anfield has been a major distraction.

It was the topic of conversation

amongst the Liverpool members of the England squad here today.

I went to the tournament with the hope of parking all the noise up

and focusing on the England team, but it was impossible.

All of a sudden, we heard news that a new manager had been appointed.

There was an element of excitement.

"I wonder what this new manager's going to be like."

But also, "Where is the club going?"

[reporter] The paper here in Liverpool has the question on everyone's lips.

"Who's next to take over at Anfield?"

[Parry] We're very pleased to announce that Rafael Benítez is joining us today

as manager, on a five-year contract.

At the club,

there was a feeling that we'd lost our way.

We had to make a change, and the obvious place to start

is to look for somebody

who had a track record of winning one of Europe's major leagues.

[all cheering]

He has an outstanding track record.

Two Spanish league titles in three years I think speaks for itself.

[reporter] Señor Benítez, welcome to Anfield.

- Thank you. - Congratulations.

How important is it that you keep

Liverpool's best players that they have at the moment?

Because we had fallen away, I was really concerned that

we were going to lose Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard,

demonstrably the best players in the club.

Steven was club captain.

[commentator 1] Gerrard… Nice strike!

Oh, he is a magnificent player!

[Parry] Massive heart, great passion.

[commentator 2] Steven Gerrard… Great effort! What a wonderful goal by Gerrard!

[Parry] The embodiment of what Liverpool was all about.

[commentator 3] Owen… Great balance.

Gerrard! Three for Liverpool and Michael Owen at the hub of it.

[Parry] Michael, he'd been a star player.

[commentator 4] European Footballer of the Year.

[Parry] He had immense pace, great goalscorer.

[commentator 5] Vaults the first challenge and the second. Brilliant!

What a goal!

[commentator 6] Michael Owen, a goal machine.

[Parry] If we were to get back to winning ways,

we saw them as being very much at the heart of the team.

[commentator 7] Gerrard…

That's a brilliant ball! That's dazzling!

That Gerrard-Owen partnership once more!

How critical for your plans is it that they stay?

I… I want to talk with them about, uh, my ideas.

- Okay? Thank you very much. - Thank you very much. Thank you.

[Parry] Rafa's first task

was to go to Portugal to make sure that those key players stayed.

[reporter] If the club are going to hold on to their big stars in future,

they're going to have to start winning, and keep winning,

to compete at the very highest level.

Meeting the new Liverpool manager was important for me,

but it was more important

that Rafa Benítez was meeting Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen.

They were very disillusioned with what was going on at the club.

I'm thinking, I've only got one career.

I might have to think about other alternatives

to try get the best out of my career.

[Gerrard] The England players were talking to me about it. "Come and sign for us."

People were knocking at my hotel door, "Why don't you sign for us?"

[Carragher] I was thinking,

"I hope this manager has got the words that these two want to hear."

- [Benítez] Spanish or English? - [interviewer] Whichever feels natural.

[Benítez] Ready? Ah.

Okay?

Sound is fine, position is fine, questions are fine?

We were told he was coming in to introduce himself.

He wanted to say hello and break the ice.

All of a sudden, we're going into a room…

I'm expecting this spiel of

how great players we are,

how he's going to build this team around them…

and we got the opposite of that.

- Are you recording? - [sound man] Yes.

Yeah. Now listen to me.

[Carragher] He started moving Stevie about on this board.

He was on me, tactically. "I don't want this, I don't want that."

"This is a problem. You need to change this."

"You run around too much."

"You can't play in this team unless we trust you." It was intense.

[Carragher] I remember Rafa Benítez's words to Michael were,

"You need to learn to turn on the ball quicker."

Oh my word! I've never, ever had someone saying anything like that to me before.

[scoffing] I was like…

That's absolutely what I was probably the best in the world at, at the time.

I was thinking, "Oh no…"

I don't think this is what he wants to hear.

That's when we started thinking…

[scoffs]

"This is different."

This was different.

It just felt different.

Really different.

Quite negative.

And I was thinking to meself,

I guarantee you, you'll need me before I need you.

He certainly…

didn't go any way to convincing me

to stay, put it that way.

[interviewer] How did you feel the meeting went?

You can see when you talk with someone if he's, uh, happy with the conversation.

I think, yeah, they were… They were quite happy.

…and the Liverpool striker, Michael Owen,

is on his way to Spain's Real Madrid.

[reporter] The player, once known as Liverpool's boy wonder,

is leaving the club he joined at the age of 11.

[in Spanish] Good morning, everyone.

[in English] I'd like to say a special thank you

for giving me the opportunity to play for the best team in the world.

- [in Spanish] Thank you very much. - [audience applauding]

[in English] I can remember finding it hard to actually say,

"Yes, I want to go."

Because, obviously, I'd been at Liverpool all my life,

but I sort of thought I should.

Real Madrid were the most successful team in Europe,

and I think most people

will get lured by the chance to win silverware.

[reporter 1] News of Michael Owen's departure

is just filtering through to fans here at Anfield.

[reporter 2] This really is the end of an era.

For the last 13 years, Michael Owen's star has shone brightly from this

most illustrious of football grounds.

[fan 1 on radio] What are we gonna do? I just think it's just not good enough.

[fan 2] We seem to be going backwards.

[reporter 2] The news will be a major blow

to both the Liverpool supporters and to Michael Owen's now ex-teammates.

[Gerrard] I felt frustrated.

I was gutted.

But part of me understood it at the time,

but part of me hated it, because I'm thinking,

if Michael goes, I'm further away from where I want to go.

I wanted to win and I wanted Liverpool to be successful, like when I grew up.

["Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat playing]

[Gerrard] I was a tearaway kid on a council estate.

From two, three, four years of age,

I'd be on a bit of waste ground, kicking anything I could find that was round.

Rolled-up socks, fruit…

Coming in with gravel, burns and blood all over me.

I'd walk to school thinking I was a football player.

I'd talk to meself about football players.

And it was a real serious, scary obsession for Liverpool Football Club.

The first time I sampled Anfield, I was six, seven years of age.

You just can't describe it. It's just great, you know?

It's just fabulous!

[Gerrard] Feeling love and passion.

[commentator] Comes to Rush!

This is like a drug. This is good. They're the moments that grab me.

[reporter] And there it is, the trophy of the season,

won by the English champions, Liverpool.

[Gerrard] The legacy of the European Cups.

I had exactly the same dreams that I wanted to achieve.

[music stops]

But when you don't feel like that's possible…

it's frustrating.

That team wasn't good enough to win the Champions League.

That team wasn't competitive at domestic level.

It was miles away.

That's why Michael Owen left Liverpool.

[reporter] Perched precariously and intrigued,

Liverpool's fans have been using anything to get a glimpse of their team this week,

as the squad gathered for the first time ahead of the new season.

[Hamann] At the start of 2004, I was going into the last year of my contract.

Liverpool was the love of my life.

I wanted to stay at Liverpool for as long as I could.

[Dudek] Is someone making the picture?

I need this picture for Instagram later.

[in Polish] I was 31 in the 2004/05 season.

I'd been at Liverpool for three years.

But sometimes my focus would fail me.

[commentator in English] Oh, he's dropped it, Dudek, and Forlan puts it in!

What a howler!

[Dudek in Polish] I hated myself for that.

All you read in the newspaper

is how the coach will definitely need a new goalkeeper.

I hope people will understand me with my French accent.

I'd been in Liverpool for many years, but me, personally,

I was like in and out of the squad. I didn't play that many games.

But when Rafa arrived, it was like everybody started in the same spot.

So I'm thinking like, "Yes, okay, maybe I have the opportunity to play."

[Warnock] I've been part of the Liverpool system for 13 years.

I'd gone from being sent out on loan

to suddenly now having a new manager that I'm hoping wants to give me

that chance to play and to showcase what I can do.

[Mellor] I was a relatively unknown player.

I played four reserve games, scored ten goals.

But there was rumors, Rafa Benítez, he's been watching

a few reserve games.

So I was thinking, "Okay. If he's watching them,

I've got a chance of being involved."

[Hamann] When a new manager comes in,

you don't want to give him an option not to pick you.

Especially when you want another contract,

and you don't have many good years ahead of you.

[laughing]

[Carragher] Didi Hamann was one of my big mates.

Rafa would have been expecting this stereotype, disciplined German.

And he was the opposite of that.

Yeah, I had the odd smoke and I had the odd pint.

Smoked ten a day. Ten, 12 a day, because I felt I needed it.

I don't think it affected me physically, because if I felt it did,

uh, I would have stopped.

Easy as that.

[coughing]

When Didi Hamann would come in, he'd drinking water of a morning,

that was code, for basically he's had a few bevvies the night before.

I remember my first night out with Didi.

He's only been at the club about a week.

We're having a great night out. Time to go, but we can't get a taxi.

Didi said, "I tell you what, I'll get you a taxi."

I'm thinking, "How the fuck's he know how to get a taxi?"

He just sprawled himself out in the middle of the road.

I said, "I'm just lying down on the road, because otherwise nobody will stop."

You can't get a cab, you want to get home, you want to get to bed,

and you've got to train the next day.

So we get him in a taxi.

He's just about leaving, the window's coming down,

and he's got his head out the window, and he's going, "Where do I live?"

[chuckles]

I haven't got a clue, lad. I'm off.

So hopefully the new manager can sort the players out and get that extra…

bit out of them, like.

[Carragher] I think early, Rafa was looking at the team,

thinking, "This is not a quick fix."

When Liverpool came to sign me,

they told me, "We have to compete against the best in Europe."

But from day one,

I could see that we didn't have 11 top-class players,

and we didn't have a top squad,

so we have to compete with them in another way.

[upbeat music playing]

[Carragher] Training under Rafa, it was a bit weird.

There'd be no ball,

and there'd just be cones all around the pitch,

and Rafa would say, "Right, the ball's at cone A,

the ball's at cone D, the ball's at cone F,"

and we'd all have to run to where we should be.

[Warnock] It was completely different to what I was used to.

It felt very regimented.

And then he'd be looking at all the players, and then he'd say,

"You need to be two yards higher. You need to be one yard further right."

"You need to be two yards inside."

He saw us as pawns on a chessboard, or as numbers.

[in Polish] It was so unusual to work with someone with such attention to detail.

And everyone was thinking, "Damn! Why are we doing this?"

[Benítez] I'm quite perfectionist, so I like to go into details.

I like to analyze things.

Just one centimeter higher or lower,

that is the difference between success sometimes and defeat.

This has always been my way of life.

[gentle music playing]

[Benítez in Spanish] As a little boy, my dad gave me a notebook.

I'd spend a long time thinking about things,

going over and over things in my head.

And I'd write down every line-up in this notebook,

from every game for my school team.

I'd write down stats, such as goals,

average ratings, shots on goal.

I started to analyze the movements and characteristics of the game.

Without realizing it, I had this way of perceiving football.

I'd then pass this on to the players,

to improve each player and the team a bit more.

Small details make the difference.

With this in mind, you perfect your game.

[reporter] Let the games begin!

Welcome to Gillette Soccer Saturday, on the first day of a brand-new season

after one of the most dramatic summers on record.

I see myself next to the Stevie G.

[Carragher] I think it's fair to say the start of that season under Rafa Benítez

was a bit of a nightmare.

[commentator 1] Good turn of speed… and a great ball in. It must be. And it is!

One-nil Bolton Wanderers!

Giggs kicks, Silvestre again!

Liverpool's Spanish Inquisition may be just about to begin.

[Gerrard] Worst possible start.

This is exactly what we didn't want.

[pundit] Another horror show, devoid of quality, devoid of ideas,

but the biggest criticism was devoid of fight.

[commentator 1] Oh, Alonso's given it to Downing!

I remember that game, yeah.

[commentator 1] Middlesbrough coming forward again.

- Hasselbaink. He's found Zenden! - [crowd cheering]

That was a bad one, that.

[commentator 2] Liverpool fans are leaving before the end of the match.

They've seen enough.

[fan 1 on radio] They're wearing the shirt. For God's sake, play for it!

[commentator 3] It's Cole… It's found a way in!

[fan 2 on radio] There's no passion, there's no drive, it's hard to watch.

Benítez needs to get a grip.

[commentator 4] Crouch is unmarked. Far post. Here he is!

[Hamann] Even Crouchy scored against us.

That's how bad it was.

[laughing sardonically]

[commentator 5] Wright-Phillips away.

Carragher's touch left Dudek with something to do. It's Anelka!

Shit.

[commentator 5] Another nightmare game to forget

for Liverpool's keeper, Jerzy Dudek.

[fan 3 on radio] Dudek is a complete waste of space, and it's just not good enough.

[Dudek] This season was the toughest in my football career.

[commentator 6] Chaplow.

Oh God, this is the one.

[commentator 6] Oh, it's an own goal!

Djimi Traoré's put through his own net in comic style!

What was Traoré thinking of?

It was a great finish for the defender.

[commentator 6] Burnley, their first FA Cup goal against Liverpool for 36 years.

[fan 4 on radio] I can't believe how poor we were.

Liverpool were just absolutely awful.

Even in Europe, we were really poor.

Very, very poor.

[commentator 7] Liverpool are on the rack! Oh, what a goal!

[fan 5 on radio] All of them players who played last night were a waste of space.

I'm thinking to meself, this couldn't be going any worse.

[commentator 8] Saviola!

[Gerrard] In Europe, there's an expectation from the Liverpool fans.

I felt all the emotions. Worthless, useless, not good enough.

[commentator 9] No points,

so Liverpool are taking their European destiny right to the wire.

One more chance when Olympiacos come to Anfield in a couple of weeks' time.

[Carragher] There were times when you thought,

will we ever get back to being a big club?

[fan 1 on radio] I can't remember for a long time seeing them play that bad.

[fan 2] There's no passion, there's no desire. It's rubbish.

[fan 3] I really do care about Liverpool so badly.

See, it hurts. It's like a physical pain with me.

[Carragher] It can be tough mentally when things aren't going well.

You can feel the emotions in the city.

[fan 4] Could we show a bit of passion? Could we show a little commitment?

[Carragher] We've got emotional football clubs. It's an emotional city.

And the people in it are emotional.

[fan 5] He should've been apologizing to the Liverpool fans there last night.

[fan 6] The team is not playing football the way Liverpool usually play football.

No fight, no soul, no passion.

[Benítez in Spanish] When I joined Liverpool,

there was a culture based on emotion.

Football requires more than that.

If you're really emotional, you don't find the way to success.

[singers] Stratego!

[man in English] It's Stratego,

Milton Bradley's terrific game of strategy for two.

Fast, easy to play, and exciting…

[Benítez] As a child, my father bring me the game, Stratego.

In Spain at this time, it was the only one.

[calming music playing]

In the summer, we're going to the mountains in Madrid.

We have competitions between all our friends.

I had a schoolmate that was very good.

And I lost one day and I was so upset.

I was crying at home, in my room.

[in Spanish] Defeat teaches you much more than victory.

And I started to realize

it's more important to play with your head than with your heart.

I didn't lose again.

You've got to teach your players

you must play with your head and not just your heart.

[no audible dialogue]

[Gerrard in English] Me game, it was about emotion.

Passion, desire, commitment.

For the badge, for the bird, for the family.

It was in me,

and I felt like he wanted to really remodel me and change me.

Nothing would ever satisfy him.

[Benítez in Spanish] I like being demanding of my players.

I think that's the key.

Success comes from this.

[Gerrard in English] I felt like he didn't rate me,

he didn't trust me, he didn't want me.

I've always been clear that I want to be a Liverpool player,

and a Liverpool player only.

But with that doubt and with that coldness,

and being part of a team where you don't believe you can compete at the top,

that's when your head gets turned.

[reporter] Steven Gerrard's name is being linked

with a move away from his hometown club.

If they lost a player like Gerrard,

they would have to accept they're no longer a big club.

From his point of view,

if he wants to become a top-rated international,

he has to be playing at the highest level, and he isn't at Liverpool.

Gerrard wants to play regularly at a world level.

That means Champions League and playing the Champions League final.

[crowd cheering]

[reporter 1] The countdown to Liverpool's must-win Champions League game

has well and truly begun.

[reporter 2] Only a win against Greek side Olympiacos at Anfield

will guarantee progress.

[commentator] It's been a chill winter for Liverpool.

Seventh in the league, they're not scoring goals.

They need goals tonight.

They're playing for their Champions League lives.

[Carragher] It was a massive game.

The only thing that was keeping us going

was the Champions League.

[commentator] Liverpool have already lost to Olympiacos in Greece.

They are third in their section.

Victory alone might not be enough to get Liverpool into the last 16.

They need to win and win well.

We had to win by two clear goals.

Winning wasn't enough.

And then the headlines before the game

really ramped up the pressure on us.

[Gerrard] I haven't been happy with the progression of the club

over the last two years,

and for the first time in me career I've really thought about,

you know, the possibility of moving on.

I love playing in the Champions League, but so do the other boys

and we realize how crucial it is for the football club

and for ourselves individually.

I want to play Champions League football, it's as simple as that.

[commentator] We're just about ready for the start of this Champions League match.

All important, it has to be a win for Liverpool.

Success in Europe means so much to the fans.

It is part of the heritage, part of the soul of this club.

Rafa Benítez has decided to change his goalkeeper.

Jerzy Dudek on the bench on this crucial night for Liverpool.

[in Polish] Knowing I wasn't playing was difficult to accept.

It was so important for me to be the number one keeper.

It was in my DNA.

So it really affected me mentally.

[whistle blowing]

[exciting music playing]

[Gerrard in English] Plan was to start well, get the fans with us…

get ourselves in front.

[commentator] Rivaldo.

[Gerrard] But then all of a sudden…

[commentator] Still Rivaldo. Still Rivaldo!

[whistle blowing]

[tense music playing]

[commentator] This looks tailor-made for Rivaldo's Brazilian brilliance.

There it goes. Played it low and Kirkland was nowhere!

It was hit low and into the net!

What a disaster for Liverpool.

And Liverpool will now have to score at least three goals.

[whistle blowing]

There is the half-time whistle, and it ain't going Liverpool's way.

[Carragher] At that moment,

I thought Steven Gerrard's leaving Liverpool Football Club.

[music reverberates, then ends]

[commentator] It's going to take an enormous effort for Liverpool now.

[Benítez in Spanish] When things are going badly,

if players are crestfallen and resigned to their fate,

you've got to provide them with a solution.

[man in English] Stratego, a strategy game from Milton Bradley.

[commentator] Rafa Benítez has never been frightened to make changes.

His changes tonight have been surprise ones.

The youngsters, Sinama-Pongolle and Neil Mellor.

[Carragher] Do you think these are gonna be the players that turn it round for us?

No, not really.

The nervousness, it's hard not to really feel it as a young player.

We've got to score three goals.

[whistle blowing]

[commentator] The whistle goes for the start of the second half.

The odds heavily stacked against Liverpool.

It is going to take a superhuman effort.

[dramatic music playing]

Sinama-Pongolle turns infield.

Sinama-Pongolle still going, but the pass doesn't find Kewell.

[Benítez in Spanish] Any substitution is a risk.

- [Tyler in English] Gerrard. - [co-commentator] What a ball.

[commentator] The roar was for Mellor ending up on the deck.

[in Spanish] If it works, you're a genius. If it doesn't, you've made a mistake.

[Gerrard in English] You're having doubts that naturally come in

because we didn't have an incredible team.

You're thinking, is there enough goals in this team where we're gonna progress?

We need three.

[exciting music playing]

[co-commentator] Kewell, kicks on the defender.

Goes past into the penalty area.

Kewell drags it across. Sinama-Pongolle scores!

That is just what they and Anfield wanted. It's one-one.

[commentator] So, they need two more without reply.

There's a chance. Carragher goes down. No penalty kick.

Then Pongolle crosses. Chance here. Finnan hits it goalwards.

Stabbed into the net. Liverpool have scored.

And Neil Mellor has got the goal.

But this might not matter. We need to score another goal.

[commentator] Ten minutes to go.

[Mellor] It's wave after wave of attack.

[commentator] And it's nervous for everyone inside Anfield.

[Gerrard] Emotions are just oozing out me body.

Every counter-press, every forward pass,

you can hear the crowd coming.

That's when you feel the pull.

That is a magical feeling.

[commentator] Carragher.

[Gerrard] Me game…

it was about love.

It was about passion.

[commentator] Gerrard!

[co-commentator] You beauty!

What a hit, son! What a hit!

Simply magnificent! It was a screaming half-foot volley!

Fantastic!

Liverpool three, Olympiacos one.

[commentator] Steven Gerrard.

You cannot imagine Liverpool without him.

Will a place in the last 16 be enough to persuade him to stay?

[presenter] What does tonight mean to him in terms of his

decision whether to stay or leave?

I don't think one night of football at Anfield would be enough.

[music fades out]

Steven Gerrard is Liverpool's captain and he is Liverpool's inspiration.

But for how much longer?

His recent performances for Liverpool have now caught the attention

of football's biggest spenders, Chelsea.

[tense music playing]

This morning's papers claim that the Liverpool skipper

is ready to accept a move to Chelsea with wages worth £125,000 a week.

[reporter] It's the team that Abramovich bought.

[commentator] Lampard strikes! Oh, and Lampard scores!

£76 million worth of talent recruited to West London.

José Mourinho has taken Chelsea to another level.

I think I'm a special one.

[Carragher] This was the club everybody was talking about in European football,

and they wanted to buy the best players in England and Europe.

And Stevie was both of them.

[Mourinho] Chelsea is always with the eyes in the top place.

Steven is a fantastic player and he's doing so well.

I had calls off Chelsea, and me agent had calls.

Mourinho was on the phone, the best manager in the world at the time,

offering silly contracts, which would naturally turn your head.

Chelsea were spending fortunes.

There was guaranteed success there.

Everybody expects them now to go and win the Champions League.

[reporter] On Liverpool, do you think Gerrard will go?

[pundit] If those figures, £150,000 a week, are true,

it's extremely difficult for a player to say,

"I'm not going to move from this club to that club."

I can't park my relationship up with Liverpool, the feeling, it's impossible.

But you want to be as successful as you can.

So when they came,

I didn't know which way to go.

[radio host] Liverpool fans are kidding themselves

if they think he's not going to go to Chelsea.

[fan on radio] I've supported Liverpool for 25 years.

Steven Gerrard, if you're listening, you're the captain of our great club.

You're a Liverpool-born lad.

If you's going to walk, that's an absolute disgrace, my mate.

Mentally, I was in a bad place. Me head was like a box of frogs.

[reporter] Outside Liverpool's training ground, supporters were making their plea.

[Carragher] Stevie probably needed an arm round his shoulder then.

Checking how he was, telling him how great he is.

But Rafa Benítez was never going to do that. He's very unemotional.

As a coach,

if your best player is thinking about to leave,

you have to try to understand the reason why and then to convince him

that we could do something in a different way.

I'm not very, very emotional outside, no?

So, the only way that I had, uh…

Or I could do that is working harder.

[Benítez in Spanish] We make videos of all the games,

and we analyze everything that happens on the pitch.

We want to correct a lot of things.

Football is an emotional sport.

But as a coach, you've always got to be focused on your job,

and not waste a lot of energy on the noise around you.

[Parry in English] Rafa was fanatical, morning, noon and night,

talking tactics, talking the game, talking players.

[Warnock] Whenever I spoke to Rafa, it was just purely football.

[Benítez] So, who knows about football a little bit?

Can we take this out?

[Warnock] Football, football, football.

Two strikers, two players defending.

Where is the gap?

Man-to-man, you have to be like that. Body position.

[Warnock] It's almost like that's all he knew.

Can you defend him?

- No. - Because I am blocking you.

[Traoré] You can cross him on the corridor,

you can cross him on the kitchen.

Everything you find, he would talk about football, move piece, move things.

So how many do we have? Dos, cuatro, seis.

And these players, they have some freedom to move around.

- [interviewer] Obsessive? - Yeah, massively obsessive.

[Benítez in Spanish] They thought I was crazy. But I knew that

my way of working and doing things

has led me to success.

[commentator in English] Benítez, always instructing.

Super pass, onside, goal!

Hamann.

Oh, it is!

[Carragher] We were starting to build something.

Getting more used to the manager.

[Benítez] Every system is what I was doing when I was taking the notes.

This is when I was 19 years old. All my training sessions.

[commentator] Gerrard goes again. García! Liverpool have got the goal!

It started to click with everyone, his way he was thinking football.

[commentator] Liverpool are cruising into the last 8 of the UEFA Champions League.

Players who don't believe in what you're going to do,

you've got to give them belief.

I thought, we're on the right path here.

[commentator] Luis García… tries his luck. Oh, what a goal!

What a goal, what a night!

One of the most mature and accomplished performances here

by an English team in Europe that I've seen in many, many years.

[in Spanish] As performances improved,

the players started to believe we could achieve something big.

[commentator in English] Seconds to go. Hang on to everything, folks.

It's all over! Liverpool are in the semi-final of the Champions League.

A tremendous performance from Liverpool,

who can scarcely believe what they've achieved.

[Carragher] In the back of my mind, certainly for every Liverpool supporter,

that season was how important this was

to have a good chance of keeping our captain.

[reporter] In football, there'll be an all-English semi-final

in the Champions League,

as Liverpool will play Chelsea.

- Oh no. - [foreboding music playing]

[commentator] Chelsea are the champions!

Never has the Barclays English Premier League

had more deserving champions.

[Carragher] Chelsea were the best team in the country.

Their season couldn't be going better.

♪ Campeones! ♪

♪ Campeones! Olé, olé, olé! ♪

There was added significance in the fact that,

for the last six months, they'd been trying to buy our captain,

and not being shy about it.

There was an arrogance to Chelsea.

They've got Abramovich's money, superstar players from all over the world,

and they've got cocky Mourinho,

and they basically fancy themselves.

[Mourinho] It's very good to be in the semi-final.

I'm a lucky guy. I never lost a semi-final in my life.

I arrived here with my ego… [clicks tongue]

-…big! - [reporters laughing]

- Now it's even higher! - [all laughing]

[commentator] Nothing to separate Liverpool and Chelsea

going into this second leg.

It will be decided at Anfield tonight.

[reporter] The Reds are the underdogs against an all-conquering Chelsea,

who've already beaten Rafa Benítez's side three times this season.

[crowd jeering]

This was big for the club,

it was big for us as a team, but it was big for me.

Obviously, because I was linked to Chelsea and the conversations with Mourinho,

because I knew the fans weren't happy, I wanted to be on the winning side.

[commentator] They always say semi-finals are the very worst games to lose.

You can see the tension on all the faces.

Jerzy Dudek there only just recalled to the Liverpool team.

[Dudek in Polish] Rafa came to me and said…

[in English] ''Jerzy, you're back in business.''

[in Polish] I just told myself, ''You are ready.''

You can definitely feel the tension.

Everyone could feel it. Rafa, the players, the fans.

[Parry] Rafa had a real focus on Mourinho.

He was the one that he wanted to beat more than any other.

[interviewer] Did you personally want to beat Jose?

[in Spanish] What I wanted was just to win.

I wanted to win for Liverpool.

And then because it was Chelsea,

and Mourinho was coach…

It's extra motivation, for sure.

[exciting music playing]

[commentator in English] Tonight, the fight to a finish.

Either Liverpool or Chelsea will be Champions League finalists.

[Carragher] It was a cauldron.

It was a concoction of all different emotions.

It wasn't just about getting behind Liverpool, it was about stopping Chelsea.

[Benítez] You feel the atmosphere.

But you have to be patient, like in chess.

[exciting music continues]

[commentator] Riise.

Gerrard with space. Lands it towards Baroš.

Was it across the line?

Goal!

[crowd cheering]

[Carragher] Was it a goal?

I don't know, but I actually hope it wasn't.

[laughing]

Because I know it gets under the skin.

[commentator] But was it a goal?

Very, very tight.

[in Spanish] The reality is that the goal was given. And that's that.

[commentator in English] Lampard this time. Oh, really good save by Dudek.

And everyone, they knew exactly what they had to do.

Play with that, not with that.

[commentator] Terrific challenge, this time by Gerrard.

We were organized, we were solid.

[commentator] What a tackle by Jamie Carragher!

It just felt like everything we'd worked on just came together.

[commentator] Liverpool stand on the brink of the European Cup final.

All they can do is just sing their hearts out, will their team home.

- [whistle blowing] - [crowd cheering]

[triumphant music playing]

[commentator] The time has come for Liverpool to play

in yet another European Cup final.

Rafa Benítez and his team have rolled back the years.

It's just like the old days.

[Carragher] Even though they had all the money, the players, and José Mourinho.

But they didn't have our history.

The city.

Anfield.

[commentator] Steven Gerrard, would he even consider

leaving a club that had just reached a European Cup final?

A club that is in his blood.

[fans] ♪ Bye-bye, Mourinho! ♪

♪ Bye-bye, Mourinho! ♪

♪ Rafa, Rafael! Rafa, Rafael! Rafael Benítez! ♪

[Carragher] There was such a buzz at the end of the game,

because we couldn't quite believe what had just happened, really.

Everyone's going to town, everyone's going out.

And Rafa Benítez's assistant said,

"If anyone comes in tonight before four in the morning, you're getting fined."

Rafa almost made out that he wasn't too aware of it, shall we say,

so it came from the assistant.

But I'm sure Rafa Benítez was well aware

that none of us did come in before four in the morning.

[reporter] In travel agents across the city,

they're frantically trying to find fans flights to the final in Istanbul.

["Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants playing]

[fan] We've arrived at John Lennon Airport at last.

[reporter] More than 30,000 Liverpool fans are expected in Istanbul

for their Champions League final,

as they take on the favorites, AC Milan.

It'll be their team's biggest match in 20 years.

[fan 2] This is the best ever.

Fifth in the league, and we could be European Champions.

Unbelievable.

And Liverpool are going to lift the cup for the fifth time!

Come on, the Redmen.

[reporter 2] In confident mood,

another planeload makes its way through the terminal

in what is the biggest and busiest event in the airport's 72-year history.

Just wanna get there. Can't wait. We're gonna lift the cup. That'll be it.

This club's been built on Champions League and European Cups.

No other British club can compare. We're gonna bring it home, hopefully, tonight.

- [fans] ♪ Oh, when the Saints ♪ - ♪ Oh, when the Saints ♪

♪ Go marching in ♪

[fan 3] The best feeling ever, lad, to have this in my hand.

The European Cup final ticket. Istanbul.

[They Might be Giants] ♪ Istanbul was Constantinople ♪

[fans] ♪ Rafa Benítez! ♪

♪ Rafa Benítez! ♪

[reporter 2] For Reds supporters, it's not a case of how you get here, just get here.

Planes, trains, trams, buses… Even the odd long-distance taxi.

[fans cheering]

[reporter 3] The streets of Istanbul are now beginning to cram with people.

There are now no hotels left in the city.

Oh, it's marvelous! This is the best.

[reporter 4] Supporters on a pilgrimage to see their team in Turkey.

To hope their heroes can win.

[song ends]

[fan] Come on, you can do it!

[Carragher] The closer you get to the game,

the more I was convincing myself that we could win.

But it was almost this realization…

We're playing the best team in the world, AC Milan.

[foreboding music playing]

[Carragher] When you go through the team, you can't help but laugh.

Because it is just a who's who.

Name after name after name.

They've got Ancelotti, the greatest Champions League manager of all time.

Maldini, one of the greatest defenders the game has ever seen.

Ever.

Jaap Stam, a man mountain, who's already won the Champions League before.

Clarence Seedorf, who had already won the European Cup with two other clubs.

Gattuso, who had won the Champions League with AC Milan.

And then they had Shevchenko, who was the best striker in the world,

and arguably the best player in the world at that time.

They're not just world-class players.

Some of the greatest players of all time.

[in Italian] We are feeling great. We have achieved the objective

we set ourselves at the beginning of the season.

Being here in Istanbul for the final.

[reporter in English] Do you know how to score against Liverpool

and how to beat, Jerzy Dudek, Polish goalkeeper?

- Yes, we know exactly how to do that. - [reporters laughing]

[reporter] So tell me. Tell me how.

Tomorrow you'll see.

[reporters laughing]

[reporter] It's well past midnight here,

but there are still thousands of Liverpool supporters around this one square.

Whatever happens on the pitch,

it seems Liverpool's fans have come here intent on enjoying themselves.

- [fans cheering] - [traditional Turkish music playing]

I can't sleep, because…

tomorrow is the European Cup final.

- [music continues] - [woman laughing hysterically]

[car horns honking]

[reporter 1] The excitement is building here.

[reporter 2] With just hours to go before

Liverpool's biggest European game for 20 years.

[reporter 3] Can Liverpool write their way back into the history books?

[Hamann] Before we left for the stadium, Rafa showed us a video.

It was all the European Cup wins

of Liverpool in the '70s and '80s.

[commentator] The European Cup surely is won.

Bruce Grobbelaar again, antics on the line.

Missed it!

Liverpool are European Champions!

For the fourth time.

What joy!

Merseyside is jubilant.

[Benítez in Spanish] When you initially join a team, in this case Liverpool,

you learn things as you go.

And I started to realize what it means

for the fans, for the city, and the emotions behind it all.

[in English] It touches you deep inside. You want to do something for the city.

[Gerrard] That's the special connection.

The fans and the history is the club.

[Carragher] Being from Liverpool as a Scouser,

when you see that, you want a bit of that yourself.

You want to make your mark.

You want to be able to give people that hope and belief.

[in Spanish] Part of our responsibility is to make people feel pride.

When it was finished, we said, "It's our turn to make history."

[foreboding music playing]

[fans singing in distance]

[commentator] Listen to this atmosphere.

[co-commentator] They're really going to make themselves heard tonight.

[intense music playing]

[Carragher] Looking up, it's just Liverpool everywhere.

A sea of red.

It's just about being laser-focused, getting ready to go into battle.

[in Polish] So many moments of weakness and so much criticism,

but here came an opportunity to change everything.

[commentator in English] We're about to get underway here.

Liverpool against AC Milan, the final of the 2005 Champions League in Istanbul.

Here comes the most important night of my life.

This was our chance to create history.

[whistle blowing]

[commentator] Liverpool begin, and will look to start well here.

Traoré, nearside the field, and that was a very shaky ball from him.

[Benítez] Twenty-one years waiting for this moment.

I said, "Don't make mistakes."

- [commentator] Kaká. Across comes Traoré. - [whistle blows]

And the referee gives a free kick early on here to Milan.

First test for Jerzy Dudek.

In goes the free kick and the shot into the goal!

Maldini! A minute maybe, only, of the game!

It's a wretched, wretched start for Liverpool.

There's five or six players in the Liverpool team

who haven't touched the ball, and AC Milan are one-nil up.

[crowd exclaiming]

[co-commentator] The first thing is not to concede a second one.

[commentator] Milan, on the break here.

Here's Shevchenko. Shevchenko crosses. It's two-nil.

[unsettling music playing]

This is slipping away,

with the whole world watching.

[commentator] Kaká. On towards Crespo.

Crespo's through. This could be three-nil! And it is three-nil!

[co-commentator] It's been a shocking half for Liverpool. Absolutely shocking.

[commentator] They're absolutely all over the place.

[co-commentator] At three-nil, it is over.

[whistle blowing]

[commentator] There is the half-time whistle.

No chance really for Liverpool.

I'm numb inside.

[Carragher] You felt embarrassed to look up to the supporters.

We were going to create history for all the wrong reasons.

[melancholy music playing]

[Carragher] When you're losing three-nil at half-time,

if it's any other game, there'll be words.

There was none of that, it was just silence.

I was just in a daze, I think we all were,

trying to take all in what had just happened.

[Traoré] I feel ashamed of the performance of myself and the team.

But then, commotion does kick in.

[tense music playing]

There's a bit of emotion. "You should be doing this. You should've had him."

Arguing and fighting, and,

"It's your fault. You're not doing this, you're not doing that."

[Benítez in Spanish] It was clear that the team was distraught.

I hear them, but I'm focused on what I have to do now.

We have 15 minutes to change things.

Rafa tells Djimi Traoré that he's coming off.

He said, "Traoré, shower."

"Traoré, shower."

For me, it was like, game is finished. Over.

He's devastated. He's been brought off in the biggest game of his life.

Djimi goes for his shower.

Didi Hamann gets sent out to warm up, because he's coming on at half-time.

My first reaction was,

"What am I meant to do now, Rafa?"

We're three-nil down against the World XI.

The chances of coming back are next to nothing.

But I went outside, I start warming up,

and the last thing I see is Djimi taking his kit off

and walking naked to the shower.

I'm two hands against the wall, you know, just thinking.

I'm so disappointed with myself.

I knew I let down, not only like my teammates, but the football club.

So I was like very, very in the dark place, mentally.

[Carragher] So, after Djimi goes for his shower,

the physio tells Rafa that Steve Finnan,

one of our defenders, was injured and couldn't continue.

I just remember a little pause from Rafa.

And he just said, "Finnan, shower."

And then there's another pause from Rafa.

"Traoré, out the shower." [laughing]

Rafa came, and said, "Djimi, you're in."

I was saying, like, "What do you mean?" "Come on. Let's go back. You in."

Djimi comes back out, has to get changed again, put all his kit back on.

Didi Hamann comes back in.

I'll never forget, I went back to the dressing room,

and the first person I saw was Djimi Traoré,

who just walked in the shower.

I said, "I'm coming on." He said, "Who's coming off?" "I don't know."

[laughing]

I've got no idea what's going on.

A little bit of chaos.

It was chaotic. Yeah, it was.

[clock ticking]

[Dudek in Polish] Rafa started scribbling on the whiteboard.

[Benítez in English] We need to find solutions.

And I was thinking about how to find a solution.

In a situation of that magnitude, you need more than tactics.

[in Polish] You hear the referee knocking on the door, calling you for the 2nd half.

[in English] Everything went, like, crazy. "Go back."

[in Polish] It was happening so fast that I could barely follow.

[Carragher] Your mind's just all over the place.

I've still got no idea what's going on.

Going out in that second half, there was a fear. "This could be pretty horrific."

[Liverpool fans singing "You'll Never Walk Alone"]

[Carragher] But I'll never forget,

in the tunnel coming out, you could hear the supporters…

singing, "You'll Never Walk Alone."

♪ Walk on, walk on ♪

♪ With hope in your heart ♪

♪ And you'll never walk alone ♪

[Carragher] It was almost sang like a hymn.

[Traoré] Normally, if you are three-nil down, fans will never sing for you.

But Liverpool fans were singing "You'll Never Walk Alone."

♪ And you'll never walk alone ♪

♪ You'll never walk… ♪

[Gerrard] The fans are still with us.

We can't go out on a whimper.

[Hamann] We just owed it to these people to give it a go.

[commentator] Unless we get the most incredible of responses from Liverpool,

they're not going to win it.

[whistle blowing]

[dramatic music playing]

[Dudek in Polish] We wanted to show why we're here.

Stand together and try to do something.

[commentator] Milan beginning the 2nd half the way they left off, with possession.

Long ball forward. Hamann controls the ball.

Opportunity from Riise!

Header, Gerrard! Yes, a goal from Steven Gerrard!

[fans cheering]

He waves to the fans over on the far side. "Come on, believe!"

Milan three, Liverpool one, and maybe a route back through Steven Gerrard.

[Benítez in Spanish] I started to realize,

while it's important to play with your head,

you must never forget to play with your heart.

[commentator] Hamann, 25 yards out.

Doesn't shoot, but Šmicer might.

All the way from Vladimir Šmicer!

That's more like it here in Istanbul!

The game seemed to be all over at half-time,

but maybe it's not Mission: Impossible after all.

Milan three, Liverpool two.

[determined music playing]

[Gerrard] They know that we're gonna fight for this,

and we're not going away.

The gloves are off.

[commentator] Liverpool suddenly winning the tackles in midfield.

[Gerrard] Rafa wants me to release, he wants me to gamble,

he wants me to make more forward runs.

[commentator] No team has come from three-nil down in the European Cup final

to win the trophy.

This is the 50th.

[Carragher] It took me back to being a kid in the schoolyard where…

emotion just takes over, and I was James Carragher there.

That kid kicking a ball around the streets.

I remember just taking off with the ball, and I just don't do that.

[commentator] And it's Jamie Carragher for Liverpool.

Gerrard's there! Gerrard goes down under challenge, and the penalty's been given.

[co-commentator] Now who's going to take this penalty?

Steven Gerrard is the obvious choice.

Rafa used to change penalty takers every game. It was a bit weird.

[commentator] It's gonna be Xabi Alonso.

Old memories, all these stories.

Rafa said, "Xabi, you have to take it."

But it was my first penalty as a professional.

This 23-year-old lad in his first season in England,

who's missed half the season through injury.

[Alonso] I was feeling the moment, the meaning of the penalty,

the lack of experience.

It was…

so important for…

for the club, for the game, for me, for everyone.

[commentator] Alonso can complete the most remarkable turnaround here.

[dramatic stinger]

[commentator] He saved it!

[sound cuts out]

[Carragher] It felt like time stood still.

[commentator] Alonso's there for the rebound!

- [crowd cheering] - And Mission: Impossible is accomplished!

Liverpool were three-nil down five minutes ago!

And now look at that scoreline!

[co-commentator] There has never been a Champions League final anything like this.

Wow!

That's the point where I thought maybe this is written in the stars.

[commentator] We are possibly on the verge of the greatest ever European Cup final.

[whistle blowing]

And we are going into extra time.

[tense music playing]

[whistle blowing]

[commentator] Toward Serginho, who brings it down brilliantly.

Into the penalty area it goes!

Deflected away by Carragher. Could have gone anywhere.

Could have gone into his own net.

We were under huge pressure from AC Milan.

You're throwing your body, you're throwing everything in front of things.

We were hanging on for dear life.

[commentator] Kaká's driven it across!

And Traoré the hero!

[Traoré] For me, that moment, it was a second chance

for me to show my character,

my strength, and to show to the rest of the world, like, who we are.

[commentator] Just three minutes of extra time. Three-three.

Ball played in, header dive saved by Dudek! Another brilliant save by Dudek!

How did he keep that out?

[in Polish] It was seconds, milliseconds.

I thought to myself, "How did I save that?"

[commentator in English] Unbelievable from the Polish goalkeeper.

[in Polish] All the criticism I came under,

I had waited for this moment until the very end.

[whistle blowing]

[commentator in English] And it will be a penalty shootout.

An unbelievable football match.

Jamie Carragher is practically manhandling Jerzy Dudek.

[in Polish] He started pushing me. [in English] "Come on, Jerzy. Come on."

[in Polish] He was shouting.

[in English] Put them off. You know, we've got to do it.

We're never going to be in this position again. Remember 1984.

Remember Grobbelaar. Put them off.

[in Polish] I remember it to this day when I close my eyes.

I see him wearing his green jersey and red shorts,

and trying to distract the opponent.

[commentator in English] Missed it!

Do anything you can. Anything.

I said to myself, "Okay, Bruce did the spaghetti legs. He moved a little bit."

"Okay, maybe… maybe I do a little bit."

[commentator] Dudek. Against the Serginho.

Who misses!

Best possible start for Liverpool.

Didi Hamann will take the first of Liverpool's penalties.

Then Rafa came up and said, "You take the first one."

Benítez knew everything about penalties.

He said to me that you've got a 91% better chance

when you hit it above hip height to my left.

[commentator] Hamann, to give Liverpool the advantage.

That'll do! And Liverpool are in front.

As Dudek waves both arms at Pirlo.

Pirlo moves in. And Dudek makes the save!

Here he comes.

Dida moves. Moves the wrong way. Two-nil to Liverpool.

Tomasson.

He's scored.

John Arne Riise.

Ooh, but Dida reached it.

So Milan are back in it.

Kaká could equalize here.

Emphatically taken by Kaká.

Šmicer. A long, long run-up.

Here he comes.

And he's slipped into the net!

Liverpool lead three-two.

If Milan miss this, then Liverpool win the trophy.

The greatest striker in Europe at the moment, Andriy Shevchenko.

He wants the ball immediately.

Of course, if he misses here, Liverpool, against all the odds,

have won the Champions League.

[in Polish] Rafa, when it came to statistics, was the best.

[in English] We had a code.

[in Polish] The goal was divided into six squares.

He shared this information.

"Andriy Shevchenko likes 1 and 4."

[exciting music building]

[commentator in English] Shevchenko!

Dudek saves

for Liverpool!

And against all the odds,

the team who were 3-0 down at half-time…

Liverpool have won the Champions League!

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart.

This is amazing.

A night they will never forget.

Liverpool are champions of Europe.

Unbelievable.

[commentator] There has never been a footballing story as dramatic,

and this is just incredible.

Brilliant.

[commentator] Liverpool,

2005!

[Carragher] Football will never get any better than that, for me.

It was something that you didn't believe could ever happen.

Was beyond your wildest dreams.

Need someone to shake me, wake me up!

- The cup's back at home where it belongs! - Yeah!

[Traoré] I went through, like, so many very, very low moments.

But when you go back, it was a fantastic journey to be part of it.

It was a great, great time.

[Alonso] You feel so fulfilled for what you have achieved,

for how much it meant for the fans, for the city.

I'm in dreamland! [laughing]

You are now part of the history of Liverpool, and that's…

That's a great feeling, a great privilege.

We showed that it's never over till it's over.

To see how much it means to the people,

that's something I'll never forget.

[Gerrard] It was a difficult journey,

an emotional ride…

but the reality is I'm a fan and I'm one of them.

I was the lucky one who could go and try and do it.

[Carragher] This was what you dream of as a kid.

You know, I wanted to be part of something that was looked back on in years to come.

I got to live out that dream.

[Benítez in Spanish] It's not like I don't feel the emotions.

It's just difficult to express

because there are so many emotions.

You feel pride, you feel satisfaction.

You feel special.

[Gerrard in English] I look back at Rafa now and think

he's the best coach that I've worked with.

I didn't think it at the time,

but now for my career,

and someone who helped me take me to the next level,

Rafa Benítez played a massive part in that.

[Carragher] When you look back at history in football,

there's been better players, teams, managers at this club,

but I don't think there's ever been a greater moment

in Liverpool's history than Istanbul.

[upbeat music playing]

[music ends]