It was frightening how much those fans wanted Roma to win that much.

It put fear into me.

Well, this is it was what it was.

I'm Rob Drape. I'm here of Jonathan Wilson.

And that quote is from the great defender, Alan Hansen.

Normally a man with a cool head in difficult circumstances, but he's talking about going to Rome

in 1984 for the European Cup final, what we'd now call the Champions League final with Liverpool,

for a match that many people regard as one of the finest ever achievement

of an English club in Europe because they were playing against Roma, effectively playing away from

home because of the quirk away, UAF, organise these fixtures and into an incredibly hostile

environment, they go away and they win on penalties. And today we're going

to be examining the story of that because we've reached, we realize, much to our alarm, 40 years

since that day, given that we both would have watched that game on television. It's a 40th

anniversary this year of an epic match. And that is Hansen was had tuned into the television

about a few hours before the game in his hotel room and he sees the stadium and he sees it's

already two-thirds full and the fans are going absolutely crazy. And it's at that point he realizes

that this is going to be a test

like none other before and just to contextualize that which jonathan's about to do i mean this is a

hugely experienced defender liverville had been all around europe they had experienced

hostile environment after hostile environment which is much more the way in those days but this

is something else.

So Jonathan, perhaps you can put this into some context of build up to the match

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