Stamford Bridge, Moscow & Our Supporters

Surely nobody can expect a game of such quality and with such highs and lows that the Arsenal match produced, but this is Liverpool and this is Europe. If any team puts their supporters through sheer agony, then euphoria within minutes of each other, then you can count on it being Liverpool.

Chelsea will field their usual team full of seasoned Internationals / primadonna's fully expecting to finally break Benitez's strangle hold over them in this competition. They certainly do have a team with heart and passion on the pitch, as do Liverpool, but what could be a deciding factor in this fixture is the 12th man around the pitch.

A certain Bill Shankly once stated that the Kop sucked the ball into the net when we attacked, and for me that is still a major factor in our home European matches - Anfield is a fortress, a place full of noise, pride, passion and most of all INFLUENCE. Can Stamford Bridge be Chelsea's fortress, and gift the Blues a passage into the final?

Personally I doubt it.

A team that has been made up from Roman's £100+ million outlay, and they insist on placing free flags and scarves out to the supporters to try and create an atmosphere.

Liverpool supporters have been given a mere 3,008 tickets for this match. These are the supporters who have travelled to a minimum 3 away European matches this season. These Reds have probably saved for this campaign from the moment the final whistle blew in Athens.

Which set of fans are best groomed for this occasion?

In my honest opinion, I think you'll hear the Red supporters more throughout the match, whatever the result on the field. We travel with pride and passion, and not from the promise of millions being spent on a team of individuals. This will lift our players, as they want to become a part of Liverpool's growing history.

Our players do realise this support, and will hopefully give them that little extra for this occasion.

Liverpool Football Club, especially the players, realise that the supporters are an integral part of the club.

They will love the sight of walking out in Moscow, and seeing (at least) half the ground draped in Liverpool's Red. The wall of noise, the sea of banners, their friends / family being a history that is at their destiny.

I state half the ground in Moscow will be Liverpool Red, but again thousand's upon thousand's will travel without the official match ticket. They will enter into Moscow by whatever means. Fly direct into the City, or into St Petersberg, or via Latvia by train. Whatever the means, the Liverpool supporters will be there in force.

They will overcome the strict entrance policy of Russia, in the very short period of time that our friends at UEFA have given. Visa's, hotels, transport, match tickets and spending money will all be found within the three weeks grace and will not deter the Red army from marching into and conquering Moscow.

No other British team is as successful in Europe as Liverpool, and no other British team's supporters have had to find as much money as Liverpool's supporters.

The team do recognise this, the supporters are aware of this, and all the back stabbing in the board room is forgotten about on the pitch.

Mark my words.

The players, the management, the staff and every single supporter inside or outside Stamford Bridge wearing Red BELIEVES. We believe that this club is special, RAFA IS THE SPECIAL ONE, and this is our trophy.

Let's get behind our boy's on Wednesday, get behind our boys on the 21st May and hit Moscow for SIX!!