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Liverpool's performance in the 1966-67 European Cup was poor and, after struggling to overcome FC Petrolul Ploiesti in the first round, they were well beaten in the last 16 by Ajax who, inspired by 19-year old Johan Cruyff, were a great team in the making.
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Liverpool's and performance
By good fortune, on the evening when he gave his greatest performance for Crewe, he was spotted by Liverpool's head scout Tom Saunders.
In the following three seasons he won the FA Cup, amongst other honours, and reached the 2007 Champions League Final, but remained unable to win the Premier League, with Liverpool's best performance under Benítez a second place finish in 2008 – 09.
Liverpool's and European
The most successful period in Liverpool's history was the 1970s and ' 80s when Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley led the club to eleven league titles and seven European trophies.
The rivalry between the clubs intensified during the 1960s, after Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, an achievement surpassed by Liverpool's four European Cup victories in the 1970s and 1980s.
This was an overture to Liverpool's being the European Capital of Culture 2008.
The ferries played a big part in Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008 celebrations.
Black was part of an all-Scouse cast assembled in this three hour stage spectacular to mark the end of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.
As part of Liverpool's European Capital Of Culture year, she performed for the first time ever at the newly opened Liverpool Echo Arena and Conference Centre.
Pepper-with famous figures from Liverpool history-as part of the successful campaign for Liverpool to become European Capital of Culture 2008, and is creating a series of prints to celebrate Liverpool's status.
At the peace negotiations that followed, Liverpool's main concern was to obtain a European settlement that would ensure the independence of the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, and confine France inside her pre-war frontiers without damaging her national integrity.
In line with Liverpool's role as European Capital of Culture in 2008, and the city's 800th anniversary in 2007, the station and its immediate surroundings received a £ 35 million redevelopment.
The highlight of Liverpool's European campaign that season was a 4 – 1 aggregate victory in the quarter-final over Bayern Munich.
In the 2005 – 06 season, however, Cissé became the second highest goalscorer at Liverpool with 19 in all competitions, 6 in Champions League qualifiers, 2 in the European Super Cup, and 9 in the Premiership, and scored Liverpool's first goal in their FA Cup victory in May 2006.
In the following close season, Fowler helped the England under-18 team win the 1993 European Championship, before making a scoring first-team debut in Liverpool's 3 – 1 win in a first round League Cup tie at Fulham on 22 September 1993.
He made an appearance in Liverpool's 3 – 2 European Super Cup victory over Bayern Munich, but starts were intermittent.
In 2008 the exhibition will be a major part of Liverpool's celebrations as European Capital of Culture.
The 1984 – 85 season was Liverpool's first trophyless season in ten years, though they did reach their fifth European Cup final against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels, Belgium.
This was written for The Hilliard Ensemble and Ensemble 10 / 10, conducted by Clark Rundell and premièred in Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral in October 2008 as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations.
Souness played a critical role in Liverpool's retention of the European Cup against FC Bruges at Wembley, providing the pass for Dalglish to score the game's only goal.
In January 2008, Mitch Benn was listed among the " Scouserati ", a list of 365 culturally significant Liverpudlians published by the Liverpool Echo to commemorate the beginning of Liverpool's tenure as the European Capital Of Culture.
In Liverpool's Champions League semi-final second leg against Chelsea on 1 May 2007, Carragher set a record for the most appearances in European competition for the club.
It was reopened in March 2008 to celebrate Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.
The Bluecoat was reopened on 15 March 2008, during Liverpool's year as a European Capital of Culture, by Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
The theatre has hosted two Royal Command Performances and, in 2007, a Royal Variety Performance to mark Liverpool's being designated a European City of Culture the following year.
marking Liverpool's being a European City of Culture the following year.
Liverpool's and Cup
Dalglish also scored three days later on his Anfield debut in a 2 – 0 victory over Newcastle United, and he scored Liverpool's sixth goal when they beat Keegan's Hamburg 6 – 0 in the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Super Cup final.
Liverpool's success was overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster: in an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing.
He was used as a late substitute in Liverpool's win over Arsenal in the 2001 FA Cup Final.
On 6 November 1991, after Liverpool's 3 – 0 victory over Auxerre in a UEFA Cup Second Round second leg tie at Anfield, Liverpool manager Graeme Souness was met by Frenchman Michel Platini at the end of the game, who told him that Cantona was available for sale to Liverpool.
This was Liverpool's third UEFA Cup title.
Kewell also finished as Liverpool's top scorer in the UEFA Cup, scoring goals against Olimpija Ljubljana, FC Steaua Bucureşti and PFC Levski Sofia which ended Kewell's season total of 10 goals.
Kewell was also one of Liverpool's best performers in the FA Cup semi-final win over Chelsea which Liverpool won 2 – 1.
On 5 May 2007, he came on as a substitute in the second half of Liverpool's match against Fulham at Craven Cottage, having not played for Liverpool since his substitution in the 2006 FA Cup Final.
Kewell returned as a substitute in Liverpool's League Cup victory over Cardiff City on 31 October, coming on in the 71st minute.
Kewell found himself unable to make the team after Liverpool's FA Cup defeat to Barnsley.
He also scored Liverpool's second goal when they beat Bayern Munich 3 – 2 in the 2001 UEFA Super Cup.
Four days later he was a substitute again in Liverpool's third final, the 2001 UEFA Cup Final against Deportivo Alavés.
On 25 October 2006 Fowler was named as Liverpool's captain for the first time since his return in a League Cup tie against Reading, scoring just before half-time in a 4 – 3 win.
Keegan scored in both legs of the UEFA Cup final against FC Bruges, although he had only scored once previously during Liverpool's run in the competition.
The League Cup ( Liverpool's third successive triumph in this competition ) was added through a 2 – 1 win over bitter rivals Manchester United after extra time at Wembley.
In 1992, he picked up a third FA Cup winners ' medal, scoring Liverpool's second goal, in the 67th minute, in the 2 – 0 win against Second Division Sunderland at Wembley.
As the season came to an end, Leicester got to the FA Cup semi finals where Shilton was beaten – in a replay after the initial game ended goalless – by a lobbed volley from Liverpool's Kevin Keegan.
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