It is the eternal city, and for Liverpool, it has provided eternal pride. Rome, 1977, their first European Cup triumph. But 1984, that was the greatest.
Gladiators, fronting the might of Roma in their own bear-pit, it was a night of legend, stories of folklore. Ian Rush, a Spartacus of that night and that remarkable season, agrees.
He admits he can talk for hours on memories of that game: the spaghetti legs, the unlikely hero, singing pre-match as they waited in the tunnel (surreally, Chris Rea’s ‘I Don’t Know What It Is But I Love It’). “You can talk about the tunnel, the singing, but it was the feeling we had,” said Rush. “I honestly went into that tunnel thinking, ‘We’re not going to lose this’.
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