Road to Istanbul: Miracle of Istanbul relived as Reds return to Europe's top table in most dramatic of circumstances

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Our Road to Istanbul series comes to a glorious and dramatic conclusion as Guy Clarke and Dan Kay cast their mind back to one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time. Yes, we’ve reached the 2005 Champions League final itself, when Liverpool, inspired by their talismanic captain Steven Gerrard, displayed superhuman-level powers of recovery to come from 3-0 down to draw 3-3 with AC Milan after extra-time before winning the shootout 3-2 on penalties. Dan was at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium, 15 years ago, and he tells the story of what it was like to see the Reds lift Ol’ Big Ears in the most unimaginable way possible. And, with Milan 3-0 up and cruising, Guy also finds out exactly what happened in the dressing room at half-time from Liverpool’s then physio Dave Galley, who played his own part in one of the best fightbacks there ever will be. Enjoy!The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriber Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:08.0	25th of May 2005, Istanbul date a city that resonates with Reds fans the world over
0:18.2	Gerard Smeisa Alonzo six minutes which sent Liverpool from the precipice to the peak.
0:24.0	After 20 years in the European wilderness
0:26.7	Raffa Benitez guided the Reds back to the summit.
0:30.0	Welcome to the road to Istanbul as we recount the most famous of Liverpool triumphs here on the
0:36.1	Blood Red Channel. I'm Guy Clark and alongside me as he has been throughout our stops off
0:40.9	in Monaco, Acreunya, Leverouz and London is our very own Dan Kaye Dan we're at
0:46.7	the final I can't believe it how are you? I'm all right it's it's hard to believe it's nine months since we started this let alone
0:55.8	15 years since Istanbul itself actually happened but I think it was one of those occasions
1:01.4	that even at the time you just knew this is
1:04.2	something we're going to be talking about and thinking about what's being
1:07.2	lyrical about when we're old and gray or older and gray errs I should say.
1:12.1	Yeah perhaps didn't know we were going to be doing a podcast series on it,
1:15.0	given podcasts very much in their infancy at that stage,
1:19.0	but here we are.
1:20.0	We've obviously, we started from the group stage but of course
1:23.4	Liverpool started in the qualifying rounds against Gratz AK in Austria and well I mean
1:30.3	as we've recounted and those who perhaps haven't been with us all the way through
1:33.4	if you want to go back through the Blood Red channel and check out the road to Istanbul the
1:37.3	full way through it really has been a roller coaster of a journey the underdog really fighting against the bigger more
1:44.9	lucrative giants perhaps all the way through this run Liverpool a historic name in
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