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Jamie Carragher relives Liverpool's Istanbul Champions League triumph 15 years on
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mirror.co.ukJust one word. The passion of football, the romance. The majesty and mystery, the mystical even. The miracle of football, all wrapped up in one word.
Istanbul. Even those with limited appreciation of the sport know exactly what it means. The greatest European final ever. Hell, quite possibly the greatest sporting spectacle ever.
Jamie Carragher rolls it slowly around his mouth, savouring those three syllables. “It really is one of those words isn’t it,” he says, not as a question, but as a statement of fact. “It’s funny how those great European triumphs are known by the city where they took place.
As a kid, for me it was Rotterdam, with Everton. Rome ’77. United have Barcelona... Not ‘the Bayern game,’ but Barcelona. “Istanbul, though.
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