Bay Bay Bayern...

In the last few minutes of the away leg in the Olympic Stadium, we managed to turn a 2-1 win into a 3-2 loss. No problem, aggregate score 6-5 to us.
For a moment, I had hoped we could reach the summit of European achievement next to Narridge, and emulate the Canaries' win, being only the second team to beat Bayern on their turf. Alas, no joy!

That's a second semi-final appearance in two seasons. The Scousers managed to stick Juve out last night too, so it's an all-English semi final, and a guaranteed place in the final in Istanbul for an English club.

So for the second year running, we're heading off on a European trip, on home soil. The Anfield trip will be a good one.

The Germans were tremendous hosts again, as they always are. In the week where crowd trouble has again been highlighted in Italy, it was refreshing to see an English team and a German team meet together in a stadium with no segregation and have a great time. The atmosphere was superb and the game was full of action. Even the referee had a decent game.

We get a week now to rest and get everyone fit again for the visit of The Arse next Wednesday. They have an FA Cup semi this weekend against Blackburn, so lets hope Hughes adopts his favourite strategy of kicking lumps out of the opposition again!