Yes, This Was a Victory for Optimism and Hope ; Ray Connolly Looks Beyond the Amazing Triumph of His Beloved Team and Finds a Metaphor for Life in Wednesday's Game As the Little Guys Manage to Turn the Tables Glory in Istanbul

Daily Mail › May 27, 2005

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UNLIKE the two unfortunate Liverpool fans who left the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul in despair at half- time on Wednesday night when Milan were 3-0 ahead only to find that they'd missed the most extraordinary comeback in sporting history, my son Dominic and I never gave up.

Sitting in front of the television as we have, father and son, for nearly all of Liverpool FC's big matches these past 27 years, we never lost hope.

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Yes, This Was a Victory for Optimism and Hope ; Ray Connolly Looks Beyond the Amazing Triumph of His Beloved Team and Finds a Metaphor for Life in Wednesday's Game As the Little Guys Manage to Turn the Tables Glory in Istanbul

Not for a second.

As the Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone, says, like millions of others, we walked through the storm and kept our heads up high, even though for a while, as the...

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