Reds legend Ian Rush has hailed the attitude of star hit-man Fernando Torres.
“What I like about him is he doesn’t give defenders time to rest on the ball,” said Rush.
“If you close down the play like that, five times out of 10 the ball goes out of play and you’ve won it back. You’ve done your job. Of course you don’t have to play that way, it depends which club you’re at.
“I believe there are strikers who are happy to score whether they win, draw or lose. Thierry Henry for example. But I was brought up at Liverpool knowing the team comes first, goals second.
“My job was to make it harder for the opposition. If I could win the ball I’d close the defender down, which would make it easier for the midfield, who’d do the same for the defence. If you do it right, hopefully the goalkeeper doesn’t touch the ball. We worked as a unit.”
Cult hero Robbie Fowler thinks we will end our Premiership drought next season.
“I think they surprised a few people. They were better this year than they’ve ever been in the Premier League,” said Fowler.
“I’ve mentioned it before that some of the silly points that they dropped at home against the so-called weaker teams - if they could turn those draws into wins, we could be talking here now of Liverpool as champions.
“The reason that Manchester United are champions is that they don’t draw those games, they win them. If Liverpool can put that right, and I can definitely see them doing that, then I think that next year will be Liverpool’s year.”
Ah what a night!!!! Watching the dirty Manc Scum trounced by a brilliant Barcelona team was the next best thing to us being there ourselves. The look on Ferguson’s face was priceless…It reminded me of a certain look he had the last time we visited Old Trafford 
Goals from Samuel Eto’o in the 10th minute and Lionel Messi in the 70th was enough to see the Catalan giants pick up their third trophy of the season and send the Mancs into disarray. I love it.
A distraught Cristiano Ronaldo blamed Alex Ferguson’s tactics following the defeat. He said: “This is the biggest disappointment of my career,”
”I’m always confident in my own ability and confident that we can win whenever we play, which makes it even more disappointing. We had 10 minutes and then we never found ourselves again,”
”The tactics were not good and everything went wrong.”
When asked if he would be at Old Trafford next season, he replied: “I don’t know”
Well it seems Ronaldo is finally off to Madrid and Tevez is joining a real club (Kop that Fergie hahaha) so things couldn’t look better for us going into next season.
One more thing for all the dirty mancs before I go. Ferguson did say he was desperate to win the CL this season so the club can be closer to the great sides of Europe. That’s right son!!! THE GREAT SIDES!!! Like us.. 5 TIMES FERGIE!!! DON’T YOU FORGET IT!!!
Liverpool defender Sami Hyypia was brought onto the field for the final six minutes of the season and was welcomed by a standing ovation from the faithful fans.
Skipper Steven Gerrard handed the captains armband to an emotional Sami who has given us a brilliant 10 years.
Speaking to The Liverpool Echo, Sami said, “The boss told me beforehand he would put me on at the end of the game but I think the fans helped me a bit by singing my name and I got on earlier.
“It was a great atmosphere and the fans were great to me and I would like to thank them a lot because from day one they took me as one of their own and it has been the same ever since.
“It is a great feeling to hear them sing your name like they did and maybe if they would have stopped singing my name at any time over the last ten years I would have known straight away that I had done something wrong or wasn’t performing on the pitch.
“That’s why I’m so happy that they are still singing my name after all this time.
“Part of my football life is ending now,I have a new challenge now and it is one I am looking forward to.”
We all wish you the best of luck a Leverkusen Sami. I know one day you will be back in some capacity. YNWA
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