Waking up with a serious bout of "nausea," the cheese was forced to call out "sick" from work yesterday. Coincidently, yesterday just happened to be the champions league final featuring the greatest club on the planet, Liverpool Football Club. Around 11 AM the cheese was starting to feel better, so he headed up to the local sausage eatery to get some sustenance before kick off.
52 seconds into the match and the sausage was tasting mighty bitter as AC Milan captain Maldini opened the score sheet early. Hernan Crespo then added insult to injury, netting goals in both the 39th and 43rd minutes, leaving LFC trailing 3-0 at half time.
Then came a 2nd half reorganization by Rafael Benetiz. LFC captain Steven Gerrard converted a header in the 54th minute to see Liverpool get on the board. This was quickly followed a Vladi Smicer goal in the 56th, and Xabi Alonso effort in the 60th. No team in the history of the European competition has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit to win, but 15 minutes into the second half Liverpool had tied it up.
This would be the end of the goals, as Milan and LFC would play out regulation and both extra time periods without scoring; special praise must go to Jerzy Dudek for making two great saves in the span of 2 seconds to stop Shevchenko from finishing off the reds in the 118th minute).
So to penalties it went, and Dudek, summoning the spirit of former red's keeper Grobbelar, made two impressive saves to secure the fifth European triumph in Liverpool history.
And to think, the cheese nearly stopped watching the game at halftime. It was, without a doubt, the best football game the cheese has ever seen, and will doubtless be counted as one of the classic Champions League finals in years to come.
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