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This place used to be Liverpool's second home. But it has changed a | 0:00:47 | 0:00:57 | |
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bit in 16 years. The Reds last tasted Cup success in Wales, in the | 0:00:59 | 0:01:07 | |
City of... Cardiff. And as for Cardiff. They may be | 0:01:07 | 0:01:17 | |
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underdogs today, but favourites do fall in this final. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
So who will be flying highest? The blue boards -- the Bluebirds all | 0:01:22 | 0:01:32 | |
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It has already been a very successful weekend for Wales. A | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
victory over England in the Six Nations and a win as well for | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
Nathan cleverly, who retained his WBO light-heavyweight title last | 0:02:02 | 0:02:08 | |
night. Could it be a memorable hat- trick at Wembley this afternoon? | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
Liverpool remain firm favourites and will be desperate to get their | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
hands on some silverware for the first time in six years. It should | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
be an exciting afternoon here at Wembley. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
Here with us are Alan Hansen, Alan Shearer and Chris Coleman. It is | 0:02:23 | 0:02:28 | |
all set up, one of those giant killers... It David against Goliath. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
This is a special place, it is a special occasion. There are not | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
many times since I retired that I wished I was still playing but you | 0:02:36 | 0:02:40 | |
look at the pitch here and you look at the weather and this is one of | 0:02:40 | 0:02:44 | |
them. The fans wouldn't agree with that, to be perfectly frank. You're | 0:02:44 | 0:02:50 | |
in no condition any more! Chris, it is a big day and it signifiers this | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
resurgence in Welsh football. We have seen swans take playing so | 0:02:54 | 0:02:59 | |
well the top flight, Cardiff have been here four times in the last | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
years -- Swansea. Yes, Cardiff have been unlucky here and will want to | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
change this. There has been a resurgence, as you say. Swansea are | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
going well in the Premier League. The Welsh national team have won | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
their last four games. The rugby team have done well, the boxing | 0:03:15 | 0:03:20 | |
last night, so sport generally in Wales is very good. I putted well | 0:03:20 | 0:03:26 | |
pick up for Cardiff. -- but it will be tough. Yes, if Liverpool get it | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
right. But we have seen it in finals before, sometimes the best | 0:03:29 | 0:03:35 | |
teams don't get it right. Cardiff will meet Liverpool to underperform. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:41 | |
And they will have to underperform. It has happened before. We have a | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
neutral in the house, I presume. How do you see this one? They are | 0:03:45 | 0:03:51 | |
always great occasions, but it is almost the fans final. We were here | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
last year with Arsenal and Birmingham and some of the guys | 0:03:55 | 0:04:00 | |
thought it was going to be a walkover for Arsenal. The while | 0:04:00 | 0:04:06 | |
reminding us that she went for Birmingham. I did. But I can't see | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
Cardiff doing it today. I'm delighted to see them, Malky Mackay | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
has done a wonderful job and when he took over I think they had 10 | 0:04:13 | 0:04:18 | |
full-time professionals, and a few of them were under 17. So he has | 0:04:18 | 0:04:23 | |
done so well to get them gelling so quickly, and to get here is a great | 0:04:23 | 0:04:28 | |
success. They only just made it, they are relatively late! This was | 0:04:28 | 0:04:32 | |
a few moments ago. That might be them saying we are going to do | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
everything as normal as possible, they might get to their respective | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
grounds week in week out... You say that, but the way they are running | 0:04:41 | 0:04:45 | |
of the bus suggests otherwise. Adding they have been caught in | 0:04:45 | 0:04:51 | |
traffic. There is Malcolm McKay. has done a great job. -- Malky | 0:04:51 | 0:04:57 | |
Mackay. Yes, Dave Jones for him befall them, they did really well, | 0:04:58 | 0:05:03 | |
got to the play-offs, the FA Cup final. And as Alan said, he got | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
there and lost a lot of players and has had to build it from scratch. I | 0:05:07 | 0:05:11 | |
went there recently and he really has got the place going, he has put | 0:05:11 | 0:05:16 | |
his own stamp on it. As the Liverpool team, they arrived about | 0:05:16 | 0:05:20 | |
half-an-hour ago. Kenny Dalglish has seen it all before, but not | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
that this particular Wembley. This is their first visit to this new | 0:05:25 | 0:05:31 | |
Wembley. You can tell. 16 years since Liverpool have been here... | 0:05:31 | 0:05:36 | |
They went the wrong way. The number of people buying tickets for this | 0:05:36 | 0:05:42 | |
game, honestly... You go back to the great days and the demand for | 0:05:42 | 0:05:49 | |
cup final tickets. There is Andy Carroll. He is obviously say you | 0:05:49 | 0:05:57 | |
have to pick me, because there he is in his kit already! I think from | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
Liverpool's point of view, it there is away of doing it the hard way to | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
get here, they have done it. They have played every tie away from | 0:06:04 | 0:06:08 | |
home and played some big teams. And if you look at the first one they | 0:06:08 | 0:06:13 | |
had, Exeter way, the first scorers were Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll - | 0:06:13 | 0:06:18 | |
- away. They set out to win this competition. By I think it is a | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
reward for the Liverpool supporters. They support the team through thick | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
and thin. They haven't been here for 16 years and to get here and | 0:06:26 | 0:06:31 | |
play in the final, they have had a lot of hard games along the way and | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
it has been terrific. You mentioned how hard it has been for Liverpool | 0:06:34 | 0:06:39 | |
fans to get tickets and the same is true of the Cardiff fans. Let's get | 0:06:39 | 0:06:49 | |
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Liverpool! I am sorry Liverpool, it is a Welsh win. A big weekend for | 0:06:52 | 0:06:57 | |
Wales, rugby, boxing and football. Kenny has got them playing well and | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
we will win today. If we can keep it to six goals, we will be all | 0:07:02 | 0:07:09 | |
right. We are going to batter them! The it is definitely our time. We | 0:07:09 | 0:07:19 | |
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CHEERING. Hopefully, we will win, but as long | 0:07:25 | 0:07:31 | |
as we don't get hammered. We have the best team, the best walks -- | 0:07:31 | 0:07:37 | |
squad, the best players, a foregone conclusion. My dad was born in 1937 | 0:07:37 | 0:07:43 | |
and he is up there watching as winner. First time at Wembley for a | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
long time. We were beaten by Manchester United in 1996, wearing | 0:07:47 | 0:07:51 | |
those silly suits. I think they have still got them. I was best man | 0:07:51 | 0:07:59 | |
at a wedding and I text did him saying I had gone to Wembley. -- | 0:07:59 | 0:08:06 | |
text messaged him. If you are put in the FA 10, we will follow you. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:16 | |
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I think Cardiff are going to win 3- 0. I sent to the text message, he | 0:08:16 | 0:08:21 | |
didn't reply. I didn't even phone him. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
There's just no need for that. I wonder how the wedding is going! | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
Chris, I sensed there is more optimism amongst the Liverpool fans, | 0:08:29 | 0:08:34 | |
but you might expect that. Yes, as we said looking earlier, looking at | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
the Liverpool squad, they have a lot of quality on the bench. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
Cardiff are playing in the Championship, albeit a good | 0:08:41 | 0:08:47 | |
Championship side. I just heard one of the Liverpool fans saying it is | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
a foregone conclusion and in football, the only guarantee is | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
there are no guarantees. If Liverpool don't turn up, which I | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
don't think they will, Cardiff are a useful team. They have dangerous | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
players, a very good manager and they are very much in the us up -- | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
ascendancy. I don't think Kenny Dalglish will be saying that in the | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
dressing room. He will be stressing to them about complacency, because | 0:09:09 | 0:09:15 | |
that is the way you face defeat, becoming complacent. 16 years they | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
have not been here. It has been a while. Let's remind you how | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
while. Let's remind you how Liverpool reached today's final. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:27 | |
They entered the competition at the second-round stage and began with a | 0:09:27 | 0:09:30 | |
trip to League One Exeter with Andy Carroll amongst the scorers. Two | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
successive away victories saw them set up a quarter-final with Chelsea | 0:09:35 | 0:09:39 | |
at Stamford Bridge. Two goals in five minutes wrapped up the tie to | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
take the ball into the semi-final, where they faced Manchester City. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:48 | |
Steven Gerrard scoring in both legs to help them to an aggregate win. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:50 | |
to help them to an aggregate win. We can hear from Liverpool | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
goalscoring legend, he is with Steve Wilson. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:58 | |
I am joined by Ian Rush. You played and won here many times for | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
Liverpool. It has been a long time since the football club has been | 0:10:02 | 0:10:06 | |
here at Wembley. It has and I think the way the supporters want to come | 0:10:06 | 0:10:11 | |
and watch this game says it all. It is their first time that the new | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Wembley and everyone is excited and that they just hope the team | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
perform on the day. How do you see it going? They are strong favourite. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:23 | |
Yes, but you look at the FA Cup final, Liverpool against Wimbledon, | 0:10:23 | 0:10:28 | |
it is the preparation that it is all about. I think of Cardiff over | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
perform and Liverpool underperform, they can win, but I think with | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
Kenny Dalglish there, the preparation will be spot on. It is | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
the mental preparation, not the physical preparation. Again, you | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
walk out on the pitch and the players have to do it. The pitch is | 0:10:43 | 0:10:47 | |
perfect, but I am expecting a Liverpool win. But the players have | 0:10:47 | 0:10:52 | |
to do it. Your pedigree in this tournament is beyond question, 49 | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
goals, no one has ever scored more than that. Do you have a favourite? | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
I don't have a favourite. Cup competitions were very special for | 0:11:00 | 0:11:08 | |
me. By second goal was the League Cup. -- my. I scored my first goal | 0:11:08 | 0:11:14 | |
at Wembley against Tottenham in the early 1980s when we beat them 3-1. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:18 | |
But for players today, it is the Carling Cup now and that is what it | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
is all about and the players have to produce. Hopefully they do from | 0:11:21 | 0:11:25 | |
a Liverpool point of view. Thank you for your time of. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:30 | |
One of the great goalscorers. There is the art of Liverpool Football | 0:11:30 | 0:11:34 | |
Club John Henry, hoping that he will collect his first trophy -- | 0:11:34 | 0:11:42 | |
the owner. He also owns the best and red socks. -- Boston Red Sox. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
As the Cardiff, they made a stuttering start to their Carling | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
stuttering start to their Carling Cup campaign. They required extra | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
time to progress through the first three rounds. The game against | 0:11:53 | 0:11:56 | |
Leicester went to penalties with Captain Paul Quinn scoring the | 0:11:56 | 0:12:02 | |
winner. Joe Mason's left-foot curler saw off early in round four | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
to set up a tie with Blackburn. The semi-final saw both Crystal Palace | 0:12:06 | 0:12:11 | |
and Cardiff win their respective home tie is 1-0, with Cardiff | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
making it through to Wembley with a on penalties. Tom Heaton of the | 0:12:15 | 0:12:16 | |
on penalties. Tom Heaton of the hero. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
Allen, Cardiff had sought to scramble through, one or two | 0:12:20 | 0:12:25 | |
penalty shoot-outs -- sort of. Absolutely. They have any played | 0:12:25 | 0:12:29 | |
one Premier League team, which was Blackburn and when you compare that | 0:12:29 | 0:12:34 | |
to Liverpool's runner, it has been slightly easier, if you like. But | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
again, they thoroughly deserve to be here and they are one of the | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
teams in the Championship that like to play the right way, they like to | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
get the ball than on the ground, play their football. They have some | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
good passers. And they have Kenny Miller, who we all they will score | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
goals if he is given the chances. Plain that the new Wembley is | 0:12:53 | 0:12:58 | |
nothing new for Cardiff, it is their 4th visit in five seasons -- | 0:12:58 | 0:13:02 | |
playing at. We have sent double Olympic swimming a medallist and | 0:13:02 | 0:13:12 | |
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Bluebirds fan David Davies to This is an wasn't supposed to be | 0:13:19 | 0:13:27 | |
like this. Dave Jones departed in the summer. We were preparing for a | 0:13:27 | 0:13:31 | |
season of rebuilding. There was a danger that it was going to be | 0:13:31 | 0:13:36 | |
after The Lord Mayor show. Then we got a Scottish manager who started | 0:13:36 | 0:13:46 | |
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pulling rabbits out of that. -- a Malky Mackay was a pretty popular | 0:13:58 | 0:14:02 | |
choice when he was appointed. A young manager with a decent track | 0:14:02 | 0:14:07 | |
record. From Glasgow as well, which these days is a prerequisite. And | 0:14:07 | 0:14:12 | |
for good measure, he has navigated another passage to Wembley Way. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:22 | |
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Keep going, keep it going. That is What was the most fundamental thing | 0:14:31 | 0:14:35 | |
you had to change when you came here? Just the fact that the boys | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
were open to change, open to doing different things other than being | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
on the football pitch. There is obviously a time for coaching but | 0:14:43 | 0:14:47 | |
at the same time you have to make sure that there are various other | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
things that can help them, in terms of being a top-level athletes, | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
things that you take from different sport and that is something we are | 0:14:54 | 0:14:59 | |
trying to do. The fans will identify with the great work ethic | 0:14:59 | 0:15:04 | |
of the team, they are all in it together. Do you feel that is an | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
important thing? Very important. It is one of the mainstays of our | 0:15:09 | 0:15:13 | |
Group, in terms of how tight we are as a group, everybody pulling at | 0:15:13 | 0:15:18 | |
the same direction. We have staff and players respecting each other. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:22 | |
That is what we need, no egos and everyone to buy into this, the | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
staff and players, and you will have a better chance of going | 0:15:26 | 0:15:34 | |
forward together. But team have gelled really well. | 0:15:34 | 0:15:40 | |
Were you expecting that? -- the team. Probably not as quickly. It | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
takes time to get to know how each other up play. That comes with time | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
and playing games. I think the Cup has helped in terms of the extra | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
games for players to get to know each other, that there are no | 0:15:51 | 0:15:56 | |
cliques, they are pulling in one direction. It helps with good | 0:15:56 | 0:16:01 | |
results on the pitch as well. modern-day footballer has a few | 0:16:01 | 0:16:05 | |
more strings to his bow then you might imagine. Never mind playing | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
golf or snooker after training. Nowadays, they work with the mind | 0:16:09 | 0:16:18 | |
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How do you find yoga? Probably a lot harder than I thought it was | 0:16:34 | 0:16:40 | |
going to be. It is good, though. Definitely feeling the benefits of | 0:16:40 | 0:16:44 | |
doing it. I used to have quite a few problems with my hamstrings and | 0:16:44 | 0:16:49 | |
things like that and it seems to be helping bat. It did help she just | 0:16:49 | 0:16:54 | |
by 5%, it is worth it -- helping the that combat and if it helps you | 0:16:54 | 0:17:00 | |
buy 5%, it is worth it. The fans are seeing a hard-working team, | 0:17:00 | 0:17:04 | |
disciplined, and they appreciate that. Are you finding that? | 0:17:04 | 0:17:09 | |
definitely. And the personnel, they have brought on a few young lads, | 0:17:09 | 0:17:13 | |
that that have high work ethic, and that is why they are still up there | 0:17:13 | 0:17:19 | |
Should the ball ever leave the circle? | 0:17:19 | 0:17:25 | |
You forget you are in a South Wales sometimes and not in Glasgow? | 0:17:25 | 0:17:30 | |
have got to get a wee bit of Glaswegian going. But it has been | 0:17:30 | 0:17:40 | |
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good. I thought we were a Scotland The Cup final of 2008, the team was | 0:17:46 | 0:17:51 | |
led by Stephen McPhail. Since then, he has battled with serious illness. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
For him, being involved with the squad and another trip to Wembley | 0:17:56 | 0:18:00 | |
is a real psychological boost. Personally, I love every minute of | 0:18:01 | 0:18:06 | |
football. My health hasn't been great the last couple of years, a | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
problem we are trying to get to the bottom of. It has been a long road | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
and we are still trying to get there, but I have been to the US to | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
see a specialist and hopefully we will have some sort of treatment | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
that might slow down and give me a chance to play a bit longer. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:29 | |
heard you got advice from a special superstar? I got lucky enough to | 0:18:29 | 0:18:34 | |
speak to Venus Williams. There are only as two athletes in the world | 0:18:34 | 0:18:39 | |
with this syndrome. It was good to bounce things off, as care how she | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
was feeling, and the things that got she got a good reaction from -- | 0:18:43 | 0:18:49 | |
ask her. And a few weeks of treatment that she is getting, | 0:18:49 | 0:18:55 | |
hopefully it will commit them. I have just been in your office and | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
could see in some books from successful American sports coaches. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:02 | |
-- have seen. They are guide you can learn a lot from. You're | 0:19:02 | 0:19:08 | |
talking about elite performers, you see how they train, how they apply | 0:19:09 | 0:19:16 | |
themselves. Incredible work to get to Olympic standards. We try and | 0:19:16 | 0:19:21 | |
make the training ground and the work place like that every day. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:25 | |
is fair to say you're not going to Wembley for a day out, you're going | 0:19:25 | 0:19:30 | |
to give it a good go? Absolutely. We go into every game to be | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
competitive. We are massive underdogs, I don't think anybody | 0:19:33 | 0:19:38 | |
from Liverpool will underestimate us, but we are going to win the Cup | 0:19:38 | 0:19:46 | |
final. -- going there. 100 years ago last month, Captain Scott and | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
his team reached the South Pole. Only to find he had been beaten to | 0:19:49 | 0:19:56 | |
it. They set sail from Cardiff Docks and this lighthouse is a | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
memorial to that glorious failure. There is no disgrace in been | 0:19:59 | 0:20:04 | |
runner-up, of course, we all know that, but it just might be that we | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
have just got up alone before finishing second is not an option. | 0:20:08 | 0:20:18 | |
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This is the Cardiff team and that Chris, does that systems surprise | 0:20:33 | 0:20:40 | |
you? It is quite attack -- quite attacking. Yes, Kenny Miller is | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
usually up there by himself and Peter Whittingham usually plays at | 0:20:43 | 0:20:49 | |
the number 10. He can also play out wide. And a bit surprised, he | 0:20:49 | 0:20:53 | |
hasn't done that a lot this season, Malky Mackay, but he thinks he | 0:20:53 | 0:20:58 | |
needs to go with two out-and-out strikers. It is a big day for | 0:20:58 | 0:21:05 | |
Hudson. He has been out for a few Hudson. He has been out for a few | 0:21:05 | 0:21:09 | |
weeks as well. He is obviously not as fit as they would like him to be. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:13 | |
He knows he will be in a game today with the players that Liverpool | 0:21:13 | 0:21:19 | |
have up front. Cardiff like to play and I think that will go against | 0:21:19 | 0:21:23 | |
them. If you are against better players, you want to be getting in | 0:21:23 | 0:21:26 | |
their faces and that let them settle. If they get it down and | 0:21:26 | 0:21:31 | |
play, it could play into Liverpool's hands. Dear think the | 0:21:31 | 0:21:35 | |
fact that he has gone more positive, Kenny Dalglish might like that? -- | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
do you think? Absolutely, you will sit in the dressing room and think | 0:21:40 | 0:21:44 | |
they have gone attacking. But it bodes well for the game, because it | 0:21:44 | 0:21:50 | |
should be open. Peter Whittingham, a key player. Technically very | 0:21:50 | 0:21:55 | |
gifted. Yes, a lovely left-foot. They signed him from Aston Villa, | 0:21:55 | 0:22:01 | |
he is a class operator, very composed on the ball. Excellent | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
from dead-ball situations. He gets it up and down over the wall to | 0:22:05 | 0:22:10 | |
great effect, and he does it consistency. Bat consistently. He | 0:22:10 | 0:22:15 | |
can also play in front of the back four, so if Malky Mackay wants to | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
switch it around, he can take Whittingham from the centre of | 0:22:18 | 0:22:22 | |
midfield and put him into more of a holding position if Liverpool are | 0:22:22 | 0:22:27 | |
getting on top. He was terrific in the semi-final. You can tell | 0:22:27 | 0:22:33 | |
quality on the ball when he gets it down and play. Is the -- here is | 0:22:33 | 0:22:38 | |
the Liverpool line-up. No place for Craig Bellamy. Andy Carroll is up | 0:22:38 | 0:22:46 | |
front with Suarez. I think he has had his critics all season longer, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:51 | |
and there is a massive price to pay for him, but we have seen the green | 0:22:51 | 0:22:56 | |
shoots of recovery. He has scored a couple, move better. Suarez and | 0:22:56 | 0:23:01 | |
Gerrard are the big two for Liverpool, but defensively, the | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
goalkeeper and the back four are as good as any in the Premier League. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
I think the big problem they have had this season is the lack of | 0:23:08 | 0:23:12 | |
goals that they have scored, and when you have been signed for �35 | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
million and you are in a bad night, it is up to you to get the goals. | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
It is a big surprise that Craig Bellamy is not there. He may be | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
struggling with an injury, but I thought he would play today, just | 0:23:24 | 0:23:29 | |
because of his pace. He made your Welsh squad, Chris, straight in | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
there. Yes. Straight in there. He missed one or two days' training | 0:23:34 | 0:23:40 | |
this week, an ongoing problem with his knee, said that may be a factor. | 0:23:40 | 0:23:45 | |
We love your inside information. It is just over a year since Kenny | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
Dalglish return as manager of Liverpool. He is no stranger to | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
this part of the world. Once upon a time, Wembley was very much a home | 0:23:53 | 0:24:03 | |
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Three words. One powerful connection. In a bygone era, the | 0:24:07 | 0:24:12 | |
home of English football became the second home cooking Kenny and his | 0:24:12 | 0:24:19 | |
clan. Once there so often, it was coined Anfield said, Dalglish made | 0:24:19 | 0:24:26 | |
Wembley a home from home. -- Anfield South. It took less than a | 0:24:26 | 0:24:30 | |
year for him to cement his place in Liverpool folklore, scoring the | 0:24:30 | 0:24:35 | |
winner on the famous ground in the European Cup final. One of three | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
European titles picked up during this most illustrious of | 0:24:38 | 0:24:48 | |
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Back row four successive League Cups followed. -- four. West Ham, | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
Spurs, Manchester United and Everton all defeated as the love | 0:24:55 | 0:25:05 | |
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affair between Liverpool, Dalglish Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan, two | 0:25:06 | 0:25:10 | |
managerial titans who led the club through unparalleled success, had | 0:25:10 | 0:25:16 | |
been and gone and in 1986, it was Dalglish's time. Dalglish is in | 0:25:17 | 0:25:23 | |
there. Yes! The player-manager's scores the goal that may edge | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
Liverpool nearer to their 16th Championship. Now player-manager, | 0:25:27 | 0:25:34 | |
he led from the front. And the same year, led the assault on Wembley | 0:25:34 | 0:25:44 | |
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against neighbours Everton in the FA Cup final. Is this three? It is! | 0:25:44 | 0:25:49 | |
Liverpool have won the Double. Though the glory years couldn't and | 0:25:49 | 0:25:55 | |
wouldn't last forever, League Cup final defeat in 1987 to Arsenal was | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
followed by one of the greatest- ever Cup final shocks. The Crazy | 0:25:59 | 0:26:09 | |
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Then in 1989, tragedy struck off the pitch and shook the club, the | 0:26:10 | 0:26:16 | |
country and Dalglish to the core. The two Merseyside clubs were to | 0:26:17 | 0:26:21 | |
meet Again, an extra-time victory for the Red brought pride, but | 0:26:21 | 0:26:27 | |
brought back none of their lost sons and daughters. 3-2, or | 0:26:27 | 0:26:32 | |
Liverpool! Liverpool are FA Cup winners for the 4th time. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:36 | |
strain of dealing personally with so many of Liverpool's breed | 0:26:36 | 0:26:43 | |
families was suppressed. For now. - - bereaved. The League Cup of 1990 | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
was the last stroke be brought back to Anfield before one of their most | 0:26:46 | 0:26:52 | |
successful partnerships in English football came to an end. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:57 | |
biggest problem is the press that pressure I was putting myself under, | 0:26:57 | 0:27:01 | |
because of my desire to be successful. Bash the pressure. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:07 | |
Three European Cups, eight league titles, four European Cups -- four | 0:27:07 | 0:27:17 | |
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A phenomenal record. And now he is back, reigniting cherished memories | 0:27:18 | 0:27:23 | |
of old and hoping to banish others from Liverpool's final Wembley | 0:27:23 | 0:27:27 | |
appearance 16 years ago, when another club's King A came and | 0:27:27 | 0:27:37 | |
0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | ||
ruled this sacred turf. Eric Cantona! Three words. Forever bound | 0:27:39 | 0:27:49 | |
0:27:49 | 0:27:57 | ||
by history. Three words, never more Blimey, they were quite good in | 0:27:57 | 0:28:03 | |
their day, Liverpool. The great days. There were a lot of magical | 0:28:03 | 0:28:08 | |
moment, but a lot of sadness as well, obviously Hillsborough. A | 0:28:08 | 0:28:12 | |
smiling Gary Abbott in 1989, who has sadly passed away back Gary | 0:28:12 | 0:28:18 | |
applet. And then Kenny resigned in 1991. He was such an unbelievably | 0:28:18 | 0:28:23 | |
good player, he would moan and complain, and when I started | 0:28:23 | 0:28:28 | |
playing with him, as a centre-back, you could hit it in five or six | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
yards either side of him and every time he would get it, he was that | 0:28:31 | 0:28:35 | |
good and it gave it unbelievable confidence. He didn't like it to | 0:28:35 | 0:28:41 | |
bounce it. No! And then he was a fantastic manager. He had the | 0:28:41 | 0:28:45 | |
ability to get the best out of players. How hard as it were no | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
club has been as successful as Liverpool, but that the dominance, | 0:28:48 | 0:28:54 | |
the last decade has been a struggle to reach those former heights. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:59 | |
think because their biggest rivals Manchester United are so dominant, | 0:28:59 | 0:29:05 | |
they have overtaken Liverpool's 18 titles, that is harder to bear. But | 0:29:06 | 0:29:10 | |
for the Liverpool supporters, they support the team through thick and | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
thin, the best supporters end the world. As far as Dalglish is | 0:29:13 | 0:29:18 | |
concerned, he should never have left Liverpool. They gave him three | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
months to recuperate and start again and I think if he had been | 0:29:21 | 0:29:26 | |
manager for the last 21 years... The Sir Alex Ferguson effect, | 0:29:26 | 0:29:34 | |
possibly. Wonderful timing of you'll never walk alone. Those | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
wonderfully successful at Liverpool years. We can hear from Kenny | 0:29:38 | 0:29:42 | |
Dalglish now. The fans we have been speaking to | 0:29:42 | 0:29:45 | |
are saying it is very special to come back to Wembley, how special | 0:29:45 | 0:29:51 | |
is it for you as a manager and the squad of players? It is a fantastic | 0:29:51 | 0:29:57 | |
achievement by the players to get here. Most of the players, if not | 0:29:57 | 0:30:01 | |
all of them, have made a contribution to the result we have | 0:30:01 | 0:30:04 | |
had during the competition, and it has not been an easy road. A lot of | 0:30:04 | 0:30:09 | |
difficult games, a lot of excellent performances. It is always great to | 0:30:09 | 0:30:19 | |
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measure your success by how often And it has not been easy. You have | 0:30:27 | 0:30:32 | |
beaten Chelsea at Chelsea. You have had to beat Manchester City. One | 0:30:32 | 0:30:38 | |
more hurdle. And it is a difficult hurdle. We are under no illusions | 0:30:38 | 0:30:42 | |
that it will be difficult. It has been a fantastic achievement for | 0:30:42 | 0:30:46 | |
Cardiff to get to where they are. They are in the middle of the drive | 0:30:46 | 0:30:51 | |
to get promotion to the Premiership. Malky Mackay has done a fantastic | 0:30:51 | 0:30:57 | |
job. Both teams are here on merit. Managers have to make team | 0:30:57 | 0:31:03 | |
selections all the time. Do you do well on team selection for a cup | 0:31:03 | 0:31:09 | |
final more? Every teeny pig, you disappoint someone. When you get to | 0:31:09 | 0:31:16 | |
the final, the disappointment is greater. -- every time you pick a | 0:31:16 | 0:31:21 | |
team, you disappoint some one. We're not going to get success with | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
11 players, we're going to get success through having a strong | 0:31:24 | 0:31:31 | |
squad. That is why we're here. Thank you for your time. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:38 | |
And Man United played under you as well. You can see the gradual -- | 0:31:38 | 0:31:42 | |
gradual improvement of the team this year but it has not been easy. | 0:31:42 | 0:31:45 | |
Not at all. Whether you believe with some of the things he has said | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
this year or not, I personally believe he has got some things | 0:31:48 | 0:31:55 | |
wrong in what he has done off the pitch. But as a manager, when | 0:31:55 | 0:32:00 | |
things are going against you, the way he sticks up at you -- a six up | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
for you, you want to repay him because of the fate he shows in | 0:32:03 | 0:32:09 | |
year. It is a tremendous feeling to have. And that is such an integral | 0:32:09 | 0:32:13 | |
part of management, bringing out the best in individuals. I joined | 0:32:13 | 0:32:17 | |
Blackburn after they won the title and I never had a good time as a | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
player there. I could not get into the flow of it, but Ken was | 0:32:20 | 0:32:27 | |
brilliant with me. He was 1-1, try to give me confidence, absolutely | 0:32:27 | 0:32:32 | |
superb. Some managers have got that, and some have not. He certainly has. | 0:32:32 | 0:32:36 | |
He has been criticised for the way he handled the Luis Suarez affair | 0:32:36 | 0:32:42 | |
but despite that, he remains a crucial player for them. He was | 0:32:42 | 0:32:48 | |
badly missed when he was out for eight matches. I think when you | 0:32:48 | 0:32:51 | |
look at success at Liverpool, and you measure the success that he had | 0:32:51 | 0:32:59 | |
with Fernando Torres, within six or eight weeks, it was Fernando who? | 0:32:59 | 0:33:03 | |
When you sit at Anfield and watch When you sit at Anfield and watch | 0:33:03 | 0:33:06 | |
this guy play, the anticipation of the supporters, every time he gets | 0:33:06 | 0:33:12 | |
the ball, there is a roar. Again Stoke City, a brilliant nutmeg and | 0:33:12 | 0:33:17 | |
a fantastic goal. It is the quick feet, that trickery. He beats about | 0:33:17 | 0:33:26 | |
14 men against Manchester United. The back-heel here is absolutely | 0:33:26 | 0:33:32 | |
sensational. Every time he gets the ball in the box, the defenders are | 0:33:32 | 0:33:37 | |
scared to go near him. Because he has that kind of ability. Quick | 0:33:37 | 0:33:43 | |
feet, that takes him away from players. That movement, allied with | 0:33:43 | 0:33:47 | |
the sort of thing. He is just the sort of thing. He is just | 0:33:48 | 0:33:54 | |
fantastic to watch. Terrific talent. Let us hear from Malky Mackay. | 0:33:54 | 0:33:57 | |
What is your state of readiness ahead of the game? I gather some of | 0:33:57 | 0:34:03 | |
the guys watch the Nathan Cleverley fight last night? Yes, they have a | 0:34:03 | 0:34:06 | |
look at the rugby and some of them are friendly with Nathan, he | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
trained with us for a few days. They watched him win last night. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:16 | |
Delighted for him. It has given you left? It was a good day. -- giving | 0:34:16 | 0:34:23 | |
you a lift. Some tough calls to make as the manager. Tom Heaton and | 0:34:23 | 0:34:28 | |
Mark Huddlestone. We were guarding his ankle last week, Tom Heaton, so | 0:34:28 | 0:34:33 | |
he goes in goals. And Mark Austin comes back in, shaking off a calf | 0:34:33 | 0:34:38 | |
injury. You must be delighted to be the underdogs. No pressure? So they | 0:34:38 | 0:34:44 | |
say. We are concentrating on our own thing. We are delighted to be | 0:34:44 | 0:34:48 | |
out there and making sure that we perform to the standards that I | 0:34:48 | 0:34:52 | |
know we can. Cardiff have been to Wembley a lot in recent times. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:57 | |
Unhappy memories of cup finals and play-off defeats. Does that they're | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
happy -- bear heavy on some of the players who took part in those | 0:35:01 | 0:35:06 | |
games. --? There are not many of them left. The group this year our | 0:35:06 | 0:35:11 | |
focus on what we have done this year. It is a new start. It is a | 0:35:11 | 0:35:16 | |
different group of players altogether. All we know we are run | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
for a tough game, playing against a good team, but we have our own mind | 0:35:19 | 0:35:29 | |
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set. -- we know we are up for a tough game. Underdogs should be | 0:35:30 | 0:35:38 | |
beaten nine times out of 10, but there is always the other time. | 0:35:38 | 0:35:44 | |
Malky Mackay and Craig Bellamy walking out there. He cannot get in | 0:35:44 | 0:35:49 | |
the Liverpool starting line-up, perhaps he once again with Cardiff? | 0:35:49 | 0:35:52 | |
He will be delighted he is not He will be delighted he is not | 0:35:52 | 0:35:58 | |
playing. Cardiff players, out on the pitch. An important time for | 0:35:58 | 0:36:02 | |
them. Like they said, they are very calm and it is important they do | 0:36:02 | 0:36:08 | |
not get overly nervous. Exactly. Many of the Liverpool boys have | 0:36:08 | 0:36:13 | |
played on big occasions but some of these Cardiff boys have not. It is | 0:36:13 | 0:36:16 | |
important they played a game. They know they're playing a good team in | 0:36:16 | 0:36:20 | |
Liverpool and yes, it is the final Liverpool and yes, it is the final | 0:36:20 | 0:36:22 | |
but they cannot concentrate on the surroundings. Concentrate on the | 0:36:22 | 0:36:31 | |
job in hand, and become. -- Be calm. They have to start well. When you | 0:36:31 | 0:36:35 | |
come to her first major Wembley appearance, you're going to be | 0:36:36 | 0:36:40 | |
nervous. Individually, collectively, you have to get to grips with the | 0:36:40 | 0:36:45 | |
game. The main thing, do not concede early. As you would expect, | 0:36:45 | 0:36:50 | |
terrific support for both sides. Comedian John Bishop is among the | 0:36:50 | 0:36:58 | |
Liverpool fans. And he is getting stick from some of the Cardiff fans. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:02 | |
In a to has been a long time as a Liverpool fan since you had a | 0:37:02 | 0:37:07 | |
chance to come to Wembley. How does it feel? I was not born last time. | 0:37:07 | 0:37:13 | |
It was 60 years ago. I think it will be a great day. It is a great | 0:37:13 | 0:37:21 | |
day for everyone. There is banter with the Cardiff lads, it is great. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:25 | |
There has been a massive turnaround under Kenny but it has been a long | 0:37:25 | 0:37:31 | |
time since Liverpool won a trophy. It is. And you can see the emotion | 0:37:31 | 0:37:35 | |
that he displayed in the semi-final. He loves the club. It means | 0:37:35 | 0:37:39 | |
something for the club to show that we're making steps in the right | 0:37:39 | 0:37:45 | |
direction. And there is a bit weak coming up for you, for Sport Relief. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:52 | |
-- Big week. Straight after the match, I am going to Paris and I am | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
doing a thing for Sport Relief -- Sport Relief called a week of hell, | 0:37:55 | 0:38:00 | |
where I start tomorrow morning, and then coming back here just after. I | 0:38:00 | 0:38:07 | |
am writing -- running 185 miles. We have just been allowed the approval | 0:38:07 | 0:38:12 | |
from the French government for me to run across the -- row across the | 0:38:12 | 0:38:15 | |
Channel and then run three marathons over three days, | 0:38:15 | 0:38:19 | |
finishing in London, to raise money for Sport Relief. You are looking | 0:38:19 | 0:38:26 | |
fit. How much training had he done? Loads! This is all make-up, it's | 0:38:26 | 0:38:31 | |
telly, it isn't a real! We are in front of a Green screen, we are not | 0:38:31 | 0:38:41 | |
even at Wembley! Found a to as it Stuffer. We wish him all the best. | 0:38:41 | 0:38:48 | |
The Sport Relief website has all the information on his challenge. A | 0:38:48 | 0:38:52 | |
key figure for Cardiff will be their lone striker, Kenny Miller. | 0:38:52 | 0:39:02 | |
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Kenny Miller on the turn! It is a remarkable story. There you were, | 0:39:10 | 0:39:15 | |
out in Turkey, you came to Cardiff City for �850,000 and during a | 0:39:15 | 0:39:20 | |
League Cup final. Did you think this would happen? -- you why in a | 0:39:20 | 0:39:25 | |
League Cup final. To reach the Cup final you rely on a lot, bowl-off | 0:39:25 | 0:39:33 | |
love -- the lot of the draw. We have come up against Blackburn in | 0:39:33 | 0:39:38 | |
the Cup, penalty shoot-out in the quarter-final, and I thought we won | 0:39:38 | 0:39:48 | |
0:39:48 | 0:39:48 | ||
that deservedly so. Miller scorers! How excited are you? I am looking | 0:39:48 | 0:39:55 | |
forward to it. It is a fantastic stadium. The only time I would ever | 0:39:55 | 0:39:58 | |
be here is if it is an international or a cup final. | 0:39:58 | 0:40:04 | |
Either way, it is a massive occasion. What does it mean for the | 0:40:04 | 0:40:09 | |
football club to be at Wembley again? You were not part of the | 0:40:09 | 0:40:14 | |
previous three trips. It is a huge achievement. This is four visits in | 0:40:14 | 0:40:18 | |
four years. It is fantastic. know what people are saying about | 0:40:18 | 0:40:22 | |
Cardiff City, the league form has dipped, it is obvious what has | 0:40:22 | 0:40:25 | |
happened, they have taken one eye off the Championship. Is that | 0:40:25 | 0:40:33 | |
right? Over the course of the season, you are going to have a dip. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:36 | |
For us, it coincides with the Cup final but I can say that the | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
players, personally, I have will be looking past any league games to | 0:40:40 | 0:40:47 | |
the Cup final. -- I have not been looking past. Promotion is our | 0:40:47 | 0:40:51 | |
bread and butter. We would swap a Carling Cup win for promotion any | 0:40:51 | 0:40:56 | |
day of the week. It has been unfortunate that we have hit this | 0:40:56 | 0:41:05 | |
drop in form. It is England versus Wales, if you like. But two shots - | 0:41:05 | 0:41:10 | |
- two Scots in the managerial positions. Was Kenny in Dalglish | 0:41:10 | 0:41:18 | |
and influence on you when you were a child? -- Kenny Dalglish. Yes. He | 0:41:18 | 0:41:21 | |
is a world-class footballer. Obviously, to come up against his | 0:41:21 | 0:41:25 | |
team, it is an honour. What do you make of his Liverpool side? There | 0:41:26 | 0:41:30 | |
is some great players, including Craig Bellamy, who was in his | 0:41:30 | 0:41:34 | |
dressing room this time last year. The Arie fantastic team. Craig | 0:41:34 | 0:41:38 | |
Bellamy is one of many. Five, six fantastic players. And their | 0:41:38 | 0:41:44 | |
captain, being their main man, Luis Suarez -- Luis Suarez. It is going | 0:41:44 | 0:41:50 | |
to be a tough task. How will you get on? We need to get back to | 0:41:50 | 0:41:56 | |
working hard. We need to play at high tempo, working hard. We are | 0:41:56 | 0:42:02 | |
not under any illusions that we are favourites. They are rightly | 0:42:02 | 0:42:09 | |
favourites because they are a top Premiership team. We do not -- we | 0:42:09 | 0:42:19 | |
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know we can impose ourselves on the Rangers and Celtic and Scotland. | 0:42:23 | 0:42:28 | |
Can he win a Cup in England with a Welsh club? It is getting far too | 0:42:29 | 0:42:33 | |
complicated for me. He is a handful. He will score goals and he has done | 0:42:33 | 0:42:38 | |
throughout his career. Even if it is not going for him, when he's out | 0:42:38 | 0:42:45 | |
of the game, if he gets a chance he will find a bit of space. He knows | 0:42:45 | 0:42:50 | |
where the net is. I was speaking to Malky Mackay about him. Just there, | 0:42:50 | 0:42:55 | |
you find him in between the two centre-halves, running in behind. | 0:42:55 | 0:42:59 | |
He does not like getting up against the big centre-halves. He likes to | 0:42:59 | 0:43:07 | |
find pockets of space. Watches the run. -- watches run. Once he gets | 0:43:07 | 0:43:15 | |
in there, and he has done that all his career, he scores goals. He had | 0:43:15 | 0:43:20 | |
big boots to fill because last year it was Bellamy, and Bothroyd, and | 0:43:20 | 0:43:27 | |
Chopra. He will do that time and time again and he is going to have | 0:43:27 | 0:43:29 | |
to do that today because he will not stand up against the centre- | 0:43:29 | 0:43:37 | |
halves. Malky Mackay was telling me that as a person he leads very well | 0:43:37 | 0:43:42 | |
and the dressing room. and the dressing room. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:45 | |
Anti-Scottish. And he has been given a bit of support. -- and he | 0:43:45 | 0:43:55 | |
0:43:55 | 0:43:57 | ||
is Scottish. The target man, up front, he is 6 feet 4. They will | 0:43:57 | 0:44:00 | |
have to change. That will be interesting to see if they employ | 0:44:00 | 0:44:07 | |
those targets. -- tactics. Liverpool players walking back into | 0:44:07 | 0:44:11 | |
the dressing room after warm-up. Craig Bellamy, on the bench for | 0:44:11 | 0:44:15 | |
Liverpool. And he is arguing, that is not like him(!) Who would have | 0:44:15 | 0:44:22 | |
thought? The last time Liverpool won a trophy was in 2006 with the | 0:44:23 | 0:44:32 | |
0:44:33 | 0:44:46 | ||
FA Cup. It was handled by Steven Six long years since Liverpool last | 0:44:46 | 0:44:51 | |
delivered on the big stage. That is a long time for you guys. It is for | 0:44:51 | 0:44:56 | |
a club the size of Liverpool. You would not expect us to go that long. | 0:44:56 | 0:45:00 | |
There has been some frustrating times since then. We have been | 0:45:00 | 0:45:05 | |
unfortunate. We got to the Champions League final in 2007 and | 0:45:05 | 0:45:11 | |
we lost it. That shows you how big this is for us. Bowl the last few | 0:45:11 | 0:45:15 | |
years, involved in the Champions League, this tournament gets | 0:45:15 | 0:45:18 | |
diluted. You have to make other competitions the priority. There | 0:45:19 | 0:45:23 | |
was no Europe this year. Three trophies up for grabs. We needed to | 0:45:23 | 0:45:29 | |
take them seriously. From Kenny's team selection and our performances, | 0:45:29 | 0:45:38 | |
we have shown how important it has been for us. Gerard scorers! I want | 0:45:38 | 0:45:48 | |
0:45:48 | 0:45:49 | ||
to win as many medals as I can. Finishing 4th is never good enough | 0:45:49 | 0:45:54 | |
but it is financially important for the club. From a selfish point of | 0:45:54 | 0:45:57 | |
view, playing at Wembley and walking up the steps and lifting | 0:45:57 | 0:46:02 | |
trophies, as captain of the team, that is what it is all about. | 0:46:02 | 0:46:06 | |
Playing at Wembley, it is extra special. Growing up as a kid, | 0:46:07 | 0:46:12 | |
watching Cup finals, I am really looking forward to the occasion. It | 0:46:12 | 0:46:19 | |
is very important that we perform and we do not underestimate Cardiff. | 0:46:19 | 0:46:24 | |
The to a self here than this time last year. You were out of all the | 0:46:24 | 0:46:28 | |
competitions 12 months ago. This time last year, the season was | 0:46:28 | 0:46:32 | |
basically over for us. It was not good enough. Kenny came in and | 0:46:32 | 0:46:38 | |
lifted everyone up. We have moved forward. We are in the Carling Cup | 0:46:38 | 0:46:44 | |
final and we are close. We are four points off 4th, and we believe we | 0:46:44 | 0:46:49 | |
can make up that gap. You know the manager very well. What kind of | 0:46:49 | 0:46:55 | |
character is he away from the dug- out? He still thinks he is a player. | 0:46:55 | 0:47:00 | |
He is a fantastic manager, he is a good man-manager. He shows the | 0:47:00 | 0:47:04 | |
players a lot of support and he is really honest. That is all you ask | 0:47:04 | 0:47:10 | |
for as a player. Around the ground, he still thinks he wants a game of | 0:47:10 | 0:47:14 | |
footie. He loves the game and his passionate. You have to be a winner | 0:47:14 | 0:47:17 | |
at this club but you have to play under pressure. There is a lot | 0:47:17 | 0:47:23 | |
expected. He's been there as a player and a manager. So we is the | 0:47:23 | 0:47:29 | |
ideal person to take advice from. Can ask you about Craig Bellamy? He | 0:47:29 | 0:47:33 | |
seems to be at ease with himself since coming back here. I think | 0:47:33 | 0:47:38 | |
that is down to Kenny. Kenny has confidence in him. He is protecting | 0:47:38 | 0:47:44 | |
a man looking after him. -- protecting him and looking after | 0:47:44 | 0:47:48 | |
him. His confidence is high and he is looking sharper. He was the | 0:47:48 | 0:47:52 | |
signing of the year, and he has scored some really important goal | 0:47:52 | 0:48:02 | |
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era. -- goals. For all the progress that Liverpool have made over the | 0:48:02 | 0:48:07 | |
last 12 months, a frustrating as it before you with the groin and ankle | 0:48:07 | 0:48:11 | |
problems, and the season that you have endured? It has been a tough | 0:48:11 | 0:48:15 | |
year. The last couple mums have been enjoyable because I had been | 0:48:15 | 0:48:20 | |
fit and back with the team. I have felt like a football player again. | 0:48:20 | 0:48:23 | |
I worked hard to get back four days like this, so why am looking | 0:48:23 | 0:48:31 | |
forward to it. That is the view from high above the Wembley Stadium. | 0:48:31 | 0:48:36 | |
This is what their plane for, the Carling Cup, being brought out onto | 0:48:36 | 0:48:42 | |
the field by Brian Keegan, a good Liverpool name but no relation. A | 0:48:42 | 0:48:46 | |
warrant Officer, first class, for the Royal Electrical and Mechanical | 0:48:46 | 0:48:53 | |
Engineers. It is a big occasion for him. Wonderfully done. Steven | 0:48:53 | 0:48:59 | |
Gerrard, we saw him talking there, and interestingly, there are more | 0:48:59 | 0:49:03 | |
gratuitous shots from the season of 1986. Liverpool's success over | 0:49:03 | 0:49:09 | |
Everton that I have just about got over! For him, he says it is more | 0:49:09 | 0:49:12 | |
about winning trophies than finishing 4th. I would disagree | 0:49:12 | 0:49:16 | |
with that because I think the only place to be in modern-day football | 0:49:16 | 0:49:20 | |
is the Champions League. If you look at him, in the champions' lead | 0:49:20 | 0:49:25 | |
to better than six and the FA Cup, six years about a trophy, a barren | 0:49:25 | 0:49:30 | |
spell, obviously the type of player he is he wants to win trophies. | 0:49:30 | 0:49:37 | |
This is his trademark. When he came back after Newcastle, it was all | 0:49:37 | 0:49:43 | |
into ball for Andy Carroll. -- ball after ball. It is a great save by | 0:49:43 | 0:49:53 | |
Roddy there. This is against Joe Hart. Good touch, bad touch, great | 0:49:53 | 0:49:58 | |
touch. He is such a big influence for Liverpool in the dressing room. | 0:49:59 | 0:50:03 | |
He is not back to his best but he is getting there. Every time I see | 0:50:03 | 0:50:09 | |
him play, he gets better. Terrific scenes out there. The fans warming | 0:50:09 | 0:50:19 | |
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up, expectant. It is a great occasion. It is a great advert for | 0:50:21 | 0:50:25 | |
football in this country, when you see how we have done the final. | 0:50:25 | 0:50:30 | |
Both sets of fans, fantastic fans. Liverpool I used to winning | 0:50:30 | 0:50:37 | |
trophies in Cardiff. Look at that, that is a great advert for football. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:41 | |
If you look back, how many clubs would be thinking, maybe I should | 0:50:41 | 0:50:47 | |
have put my best team out in one of the ties? Let's face it, at the | 0:50:47 | 0:50:50 | |
beginning of the competition you see the big clubs putting their | 0:50:50 | 0:50:54 | |
squad players out. How many of them are looking now and saying, I wish | 0:50:54 | 0:51:00 | |
we were there now won this magnificent occasion? The fans | 0:51:00 | 0:51:06 | |
think it is special. Let us hope the game lives up to the occasion. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:11 | |
We have two teams who like to play football. That is a big plus point. | 0:51:11 | 0:51:16 | |
Some big-name players out there. It made me laugh when I heard them say, | 0:51:16 | 0:51:21 | |
well, there is not a lot of pressure on us. There is pressure | 0:51:21 | 0:51:29 | |
on them, because there is a place in Europe at stake. You have | 0:51:29 | 0:51:33 | |
thousands of fans travelling miles to watch them perform. It is great | 0:51:33 | 0:51:37 | |
for Cardiff to be here. It is a terrific achievement but it is a | 0:51:37 | 0:51:42 | |
must win for Liverpool. No one likes to lose a final. It does not | 0:51:42 | 0:51:46 | |
matter who you are. The Cardiff City players are on show today. | 0:51:46 | 0:51:55 | |
Individually, they were not want to be shown up. Strange things can | 0:51:55 | 0:52:02 | |
happen. As you well know. 1988 at Wembley. You want to avoid 1986 but | 0:52:02 | 0:52:08 | |
you want to bring up 1988? Was that in colour or black and white? | 0:52:08 | 0:52:11 | |
a year looking forward to a great occasion and hopefully the teams | 0:52:11 | 0:52:18 | |
will play well. -- we are looking forward. Which team will win? | 0:52:18 | 0:52:22 | |
will be the boys in red. I think they have too much for Cardiff. | 0:52:22 | 0:52:29 | |
They are waiting to hammer somebody. Because of the impetus and momentum | 0:52:29 | 0:52:34 | |
that beating Brighton has given them, and I know the lack of goals | 0:52:34 | 0:52:38 | |
has been a problem, but because they scored six against Brighton, | 0:52:38 | 0:52:42 | |
they will go from strength to strength. It starts here. | 0:52:42 | 0:52:47 | |
Cardiff possibly do it? A lot has got to go wrong for Liverpool and | 0:52:47 | 0:52:51 | |
Cardiff will have to get everything right. It will be difficult for | 0:52:51 | 0:52:55 | |
Cardiff but we have seen it before. Cup finals being Cup finals, a lot | 0:52:55 | 0:53:01 | |
is going to go wrong for Liverpool. The beginning of the game is. | 0:53:01 | 0:53:05 | |
Cardiff have to keep it tight and make sure their players react well | 0:53:05 | 0:53:10 | |
to the atmosphere. I know a few of them have played here in play-offs | 0:53:10 | 0:53:14 | |
but this will be different. There is a lot of pressure and they have | 0:53:14 | 0:53:19 | |
to perform. There is no second chances. I think it will be a very | 0:53:20 | 0:53:24 | |
tight game. I do not think it will be as easy as many of the Liverpool | 0:53:24 | 0:53:28 | |
fans think it will be. It will be difficult to control the ball on | 0:53:28 | 0:53:35 | |
top of those covers. It has been six years since Liverpool won a | 0:53:35 | 0:53:38 | |
major trophy. It has been a lot longer since Cardiff got their | 0:53:38 | 0:53:43 | |
hands on some silverware. This hands on some silverware. This | 0:53:43 | 0:53:45 | |
really matters. Let us join the commentary team of Guy Mowbray and | 0:53:45 | 0:53:51 | |
Martin Lawrence in. Thank you, Gary. -- Mark Lawrenson. | 0:53:51 | 0:53:55 | |
It is a perfect spring afternoon. Just right for the first silverware | 0:53:55 | 0:54:03 | |
of the season to: -- glint in the sunshine. The trophy, the weather, | 0:54:03 | 0:54:08 | |
the hemisphere. Liverpool at Wembley, it is like a major final | 0:54:08 | 0:54:13 | |
of yesteryear. Kenny Dalglish and all. The team will be let out for a | 0:54:13 | 0:54:17 | |
Wembley final by one of the City's own, a Liverpudlian, for only the | 0:54:17 | 0:54:24 | |
second time. Tommy Smith in 1971, and Steven Gerrard in 2012. For | 0:54:24 | 0:54:31 | |
Cardiff City and the Bluebirds, it is familiar territory. For their | 0:54:31 | 0:54:36 | |
4th visit to Wembley in the 21st century. Looking to complete the | 0:54:36 | 0:54:41 | |
second Triple Crown of the weekend for Wales. A victory over England | 0:54:41 | 0:54:44 | |
at the Six Nations, and Nathan Cleverley defended his light | 0:54:44 | 0:54:48 | |
heavyweight title last night. Cardiff City are going for the hat- | 0:54:48 | 0:54:53 | |
trick. All that and it is St David's Day on Thursday as well as | 0:54:53 | 0:55:03 | |
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being the Chinese Year of the dragon. Those Liverpool players are | 0:55:05 | 0:55:09 | |
red hot favourites. We said that one year ago. You can get the same | 0:55:09 | 0:55:17 | |
odds on a Liverpool victory as you do on Arsenal. Birmingham City of | 0:55:17 | 0:55:23 | |
said those odds last year. Can Cardiff do the same? -- upset the | 0:55:23 | 0:55:33 | |
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odds. Out of the tension of the Wembley looks a picture. Really | 0:56:01 | 0:56:05 | |
good showcase for English football around the world, this game, being | 0:56:05 | 0:56:15 | |
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screened in an estimated 151 Liverpool manager. I expect he | 0:56:22 | 0:56:32 | |
thought that they would never come again. The 52nd League Cup final. | 0:56:32 | 0:56:38 | |
The presentation party. Mark Hunter, the Chief Executive of the sponsors. | 0:56:38 | 0:56:47 | |
Greg Clark, chairman of the Football League. And Lou Armstrong | 0:56:47 | 0:56:53 | |
representing the Football League's official charity this season. I | 0:56:53 | 0:57:01 | |
must mention the mascots. It is a huge day for them. Somebody has | 0:57:01 | 0:57:08 | |
told me that it was the Cardiff's nine-year-old mascot's birthday | 0:57:08 | 0:57:18 | |
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this weekend. Mark Hudson. He takes the dignitaries down the line. They | 0:57:28 | 0:57:38 | |
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won 3-1 against Peterborough at the Managers with birthdays a fortnight | 0:57:53 | 0:57:57 | |
apart. The Cardiff boss was 40 last Sunday and Kenny Dalglish will be | 0:57:57 | 0:58:07 | |
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61 in one week's time. There is a wonderful noise around the place. | 0:58:08 | 0:58:12 | |
Cardiff are delighted to be back. Liverpool supporters savouring | 0:58:12 | 0:58:22 | |
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their first taste, incredibly, of Glaswegians. Let's look at the | 0:58:32 | 0:58:37 | |
Cardiff City line-up. A bold team named by Malky Mackay with two | 0:58:37 | 0:58:42 | |
genuine strikers and width to supply them from Don Cowie and John | 0:58:42 | 0:58:50 | |
Mason. Peter Whittingham is joint top scorer with Kenny Miller on 10. | 0:58:50 | 0:59:00 | |
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plays for and captains Liverpool. In a team that has surprised those | 0:59:04 | 0:59:08 | |
who expected Craig Bellamy to play. Stuart Bellamy and Jordan Henderson | 0:59:08 | 0:59:18 | |
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atmosphere and hopefully enjoy the game, somebody well-versed to | 0:59:28 | 0:59:33 | |
winning League Cups with Liverpool, Mark Lawrenson. It was in black and | 0:59:34 | 0:59:37 | |
white. I have completely forgotten. You said that Cardiff have picked | 0:59:37 | 0:59:41 | |
an attacking team and I think Malky Mackay has decided that is the best | 0:59:41 | 0:59:48 | |
way to play against Liverpool. From Liverpool's point of view, without | 0:59:48 | 0:59:54 | |
Bellamy, I wonder if the view is that there is half an hour left, | 0:59:54 | 0:59:59 | |
maybe they will throw Craig Bellamy on and he will change the game. | 0:59:59 | 1:00:03 | |
has been struggling. His training has been limited. He has had | 1:00:03 | 1:00:07 | |
painful injections and maybe that is the reason why Craig Bellamy is | 1:00:07 | 1:00:13 | |
only a substitute today. Tough luck for air Steven Gerrard's Cousin, | 1:00:13 | 1:00:17 | |
Anthony. In the absence of their skipper, he has been playing with | 1:00:17 | 1:00:22 | |
them. But he was left out of the play-off last time Cardiff were | 1:00:22 | 1:00:28 | |
here, two years ago. Again, he has to sit on the bench. It is not | 1:00:28 | 1:00:30 | |
something you want to get used to. It has been a while since Hudson | 1:00:30 | 1:00:36 | |
has played. He has not played since the middle part of January. It is a | 1:00:36 | 1:00:46 | |
bit of a gamble. Mark Clatternberg is the referee today. Simon Beck | 1:00:46 | 1:00:56 | |
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will assist him with the flags. a big time Cup-final. I walked up | 1:01:01 | 1:01:09 | |
at 11 am and I have never seen that many people before kick-off. Five | 1:01:09 | 1:01:19 | |
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Cardiff in the huddle. And a great noise coming from writer around | 1:01:26 | 1:01:36 | |
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this wonderful stadium. -- from against Premier League. Cardiff | 1:01:56 | 1:02:06 | |
City against Liverpool. England against Wales. For a report, it is | 1:02:06 | 1:02:13 | |
their first visit to Wembley since 1996. -- for Liverpool. It is a | 1:02:13 | 1:02:23 | |
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while since they have won anything. And that is Jose Enrique. Left | 1:02:33 | 1:02:43 | |
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charge. And there are men on either side. He has gone for the top | 1:03:22 | 1:03:28 | |
corner! Rattles the woodwork! Gerrard! What an effort from | 1:03:28 | 1:03:38 | |
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Johnson! So, so close. Yes. Gerrard, travelling some 56 yards with the | 1:03:40 | 1:03:50 | |
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ball. Great technique. I think it was four against three at one stage. | 1:03:56 | 1:04:06 | |
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Gerrard blazed high and wide. And a as we speak, trying to sort that | 1:04:16 | 1:04:24 | |
out. I should think they will spend most of the match there. You are a | 1:04:24 | 1:04:34 | |
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long way away in your allocated matter - the ball has gone out | 1:05:07 | 1:05:17 | |
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anyway. This is a great angle to see this again. Tom Heaton was | 1:05:18 | 1:05:28 | |
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around. Over the top and there was a push from Carroll. A good | 1:06:40 | 1:06:45 | |
advantage play by Mark Clattenburg earlier on. Yes. Undoubtedly a push | 1:06:45 | 1:06:53 | |
by Carroll. What I your feelings on Andy Carroll at the moment? Is seen, | 1:06:53 | 1:07:02 | |
as he says at the moment, -- is he, as he says at the moment, getting | 1:07:02 | 1:07:08 | |
there? He is. He has definitely improved over the last few games. | 1:07:08 | 1:07:13 | |
He is back to match fitness but still not the awesome Andy Carroll | 1:07:13 | 1:07:17 | |
that played for Newcastle and used to frighten everybody. Especially | 1:07:17 | 1:07:24 | |
when you played against him! And he is a regular team mate now for | 1:07:24 | 1:07:34 | |
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and very much the second choice. looks like he is wearing orange | 1:08:52 | 1:09:02 | |
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Miller was. He was trotting back into midfield and was not sure who | 1:09:57 | 1:10:07 | |
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Coventry City. He played in the Carling Cup a four -- Carling Cup | 1:10:36 | 1:10:46 | |
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get onto the pitch. They are smiling. We saw that little | 1:11:04 | 1:11:07 | |
argument he was having before the match and it was a Football League | 1:11:07 | 1:11:11 | |
official. He was telling him to get off the pitch because the warm-up | 1:11:12 | 1:11:21 | |
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mate of Craig Bellamy. -- and the leant back as he struck and a great | 1:11:55 | 1:12:05 | |
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move and nice Work from Cowie. You should at least make the | 1:12:06 | 1:12:16 | |
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goalkeeper work. Two members of the strong cop -- Scottish connection, | 1:12:18 | 1:12:28 | |
Don Cowie and Kenny Miller. Those two will be in the Scotland squad | 1:12:28 | 1:12:33 | |
for the international next week. And Steven Gerrard will hope to be | 1:12:33 | 1:12:38 | |
back here perhaps leading England. We haven't had that question | 1:12:38 | 1:12:48 | |
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Cardiff that the space that Suarez is finding. Balls are going around | 1:13:05 | 1:13:15 | |
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the corner and Suarez is coming off people. He has scored in his last | 1:13:15 | 1:13:25 | |
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two games since he came back from for him. Up against Cardiff and | 1:14:28 | 1:14:34 | |
just one previous appearance against them. And scored in a | 1:14:34 | 1:14:44 | |
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Newcastle United win. Now in the they won against Manchester United. | 1:15:26 | 1:15:35 | |
That was in 2003. And twice against West Ham. I think we remember those | 1:15:35 | 1:15:45 | |
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opponent for Carroll, but he kicks the ball wide. Everybody across the | 1:16:56 | 1:17:05 | |
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midfield had lots of time and space again for Johnson. Almost playing | 1:18:03 | 1:18:13 | |
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has featured a club from outside the top division of English | 1:18:29 | 1:18:33 | |
football since 2001. Liverpool were in that one as well, beating | 1:18:33 | 1:18:43 | |
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Birmingham City, but they needed up position and drive forward. He | 1:19:33 | 1:19:43 | |
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thought about it... And on to wonder if it was sneaking in. | 1:19:52 | 1:19:57 | |
No pressure from Cardiff on the man either on the ball against | 1:19:57 | 1:20:07 | |
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Liverpool. They need to mount a bit of pressure of their own. And not | 1:20:07 | 1:20:17 | |
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the best return there to Miller but amazing! Cardiff City lead! Joe | 1:20:25 | 1:20:35 | |
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Mason! What a cool, cool finish! And it is the blue flags flying at | 1:20:38 | 1:20:46 | |
Wembley! And greater gains Liverpool as well. He had so much | 1:20:46 | 1:20:56 | |
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time and space. A lovely little ball there. I would have thought it | 1:20:56 | 1:21:03 | |
went through his legs. It is the 20-year-old's 8th goal of the | 1:21:03 | 1:21:07 | |
season. The man who scored the only goal of the 4th round tie against | 1:21:07 | 1:21:13 | |
Burnley. Signed from Plymouth Argyle. He's the talk of all | 1:21:13 | 1:21:23 | |
Cardiff right now! Didn't he take it well?! Excellent! Great ball | 1:21:23 | 1:21:31 | |
from Kenny Miller. The Carling Cup Final is a light, well and truly! | 1:21:31 | 1:21:38 | |
Against the run of play! What can Suarez do? No reply yet. Liverpool | 1:21:38 | 1:21:43 | |
have been finding a way through but then Malky Mackay's team have come | 1:21:43 | 1:21:47 | |
through and shown real confidence when coming forward. Look at the | 1:21:47 | 1:21:53 | |
manager, he can hardly get his breath! And Kenny is seething. | 1:21:53 | 1:22:03 | |
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yeah. A few echoes of last year in this final. Most of the noise came | 1:22:05 | 1:22:11 | |
from the Birmingham fans that time. Again, it is the red end that toss | 1:22:12 | 1:22:17 | |
sat with their arms folded, wondering how that happened. -- Map | 1:22:17 | 1:22:27 | |
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of ours sat. -- at that are sat for the goal there was outstanding, | 1:22:33 | 1:22:43 | |
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gets the chance and Cardiff almost give it to him. Against the run of | 1:23:46 | 1:23:52 | |
play, just a bit! Liverpool have had two thirds of the ball. Doesn't | 1:23:52 | 1:24:02 | |
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foot, I think. A rather desperate attempt there | 1:24:34 | 1:24:43 | |
from Gunnarsson. And it was the right call. Great position from the | 1:24:43 | 1:24:53 | |
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glowering. Any blame attached to him? Well, yeah, because he had | 1:25:04 | 1:25:09 | |
lots of time to head it to where you wanted and the last places one | 1:25:09 | 1:25:19 | |
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-- he wanted was to the guy he had when there was something a lot | 1:25:36 | 1:25:45 | |
safer on. Yes. He is getting nearer with his efforts. Well, I would | 1:25:46 | 1:25:54 | |
like to say that but I would be lying. We have talked about | 1:25:54 | 1:26:04 | |
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Liverpool not having clashes with the Cardiff midfield. Eyebrows were | 1:26:05 | 1:26:15 | |
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raised when we saw that Miller was defined Jose Enrique again. -- to | 1:26:56 | 1:27:06 | |
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find. And a bit of confusion as to which way things are going. Yeah, a | 1:27:08 | 1:27:18 | |
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good game, this, for Stewart Downing. And a big week for him | 1:27:23 | 1:27:28 | |
with England game coming up as well. Yes. Henderson would be another one | 1:27:28 | 1:27:38 | |
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for me. Two really big Liverpool buys. I think the jury is still out | 1:27:43 | 1:27:52 | |
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was my shirt. Free kick. -- a receive it. Great ball in. It was | 1:29:52 | 1:29:56 | |
only Andy Carroll within five yards. That is one of the problems were | 1:29:56 | 1:30:00 | |
Liverpool, more so at home, the lack of midfield players moving | 1:30:00 | 1:30:04 | |
into the box. I think it is a reason why they have drawn so many | 1:30:04 | 1:30:14 | |
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better than that. It was almost a nervous starter before he hit it. | 1:32:01 | 1:32:09 | |
When he came end, it was like, maybe. "I can't take it with my | 1:32:09 | 1:32:13 | |
right, but I'll have a goal". the one goal in English football, | 1:32:14 | 1:32:19 | |
for Newcastle against Nottingham Forest tonight years ago. He has | 1:32:19 | 1:32:29 | |
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Made by Taylor. I think the ball took some one's hand but it was hit | 1:33:00 | 1:33:08 | |
so quick. We will sit in a minute. It happens a lot but you have an | 1:33:08 | 1:33:18 | |
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post. I think Heiton thinks this is in. Watches dive. -- watch his | 1:33:34 | 1:33:39 | |
diver. Where are you so poor to put your hand. His hand got nowhere | 1:33:39 | 1:33:49 | |
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be doing it right in front of the manager. He scored 11 goals for | 1:34:16 | 1:34:23 | |
Cardiff City last season whilst on loan from Manchester City. He has | 1:34:23 | 1:34:27 | |
been excellent for Liverpool. Every time he has played, he has made | 1:34:27 | 1:34:35 | |
things happen. The man who got to Liverpool to this Wembley final. | 1:34:35 | 1:34:45 | |
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The second goal in the second leg refereeing. Let's have one more | 1:35:01 | 1:35:07 | |
look at the Liverpool appeal. His left-arm his outstretched. If that | 1:35:07 | 1:35:17 | |
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is a penalty, we may as well go Clatternberg. I think he talks to | 1:35:20 | 1:35:30 | |
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the players and they appreciate for Cardiff. Throw your body in the | 1:36:49 | 1:36:56 | |
way. I think he threw his head in. John Mason, putting his head in | 1:36:56 | 1:37:06 | |
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where it might just heard. -- Joe competition in the finals. It never | 1:38:23 | 1:38:33 | |
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seems to go quite as planned for Cup as a manager. Runner-up in 1987. | 1:38:38 | 1:38:44 | |
And there is the big boss, John Henry is here. The one on the left? | 1:38:44 | 1:38:54 | |
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Excellent. With respect to Anthony Gerrard, you can see why Mark | 1:39:32 | 1:39:41 | |
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Kenny Miller, but one huge assisted Gerrard. Biggest Liverpool chance | 1:40:31 | 1:40:37 | |
of the game. How did he miss that? He was nowhere near it. Great play | 1:40:37 | 1:40:43 | |
by Downing. Mick Naughton is twisted over the place, every | 1:40:43 | 1:40:53 | |
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single way. He has to have closed with Liverpool's Spanish full-back. | 1:41:19 | 1:41:29 | |
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I'm sure he has got a free kick. was a theatrical dive. He asked to | 1:42:11 | 1:42:21 | |
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get this right. -- he has to get getting involved. Needlessly. That | 1:42:53 | 1:43:03 | |
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Suarez in this competition. Malky Mackay and Andrew Taylor slowing it | 1:44:13 | 1:44:23 | |
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down. Two minutes until 45 have last big chance before the break | 1:44:36 | 1:44:44 | |
for Liverpool. I thought for a moment, at him and Skrtel were | 1:44:44 | 1:44:54 | |
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missed. It was an unbelievable chance. Either side of the | 1:45:23 | 1:45:33 | |
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was a great ball in, and poor defensively from Cardiff. Is that | 1:45:38 | 1:45:48 | |
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one of those moments that makes you has fallen. The ball has gone way | 1:46:08 | 1:46:18 | |
behind. Good pressure. He in the end, that made him snatch at it. It | 1:46:18 | 1:46:22 | |
was a great block, and then just as he gets it out of his feet, they | 1:46:22 | 1:46:32 | |
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very good game. Kenny Dalglish might disagree. He will have words | 1:46:35 | 1:46:44 | |
ready. The goalkeeper has been man of the match in the Cup finals of | 1:46:44 | 1:46:50 | |
the last two seasons. Both times, Ben Foster. Ones for Manchester | 1:46:50 | 1:47:00 | |
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United and once for Birmingham. -- the risk of smashing a 40 yard | 1:47:47 | 1:47:57 | |
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first half of football. John Mason, in the 19th minute for Cardiff City, | 1:48:11 | 1:48:17 | |
with a wonderful finish. -- Joe Mason. Tom Heaton managed to keep | 1:48:17 | 1:48:22 | |
out a Daniel Agger header. On a wonderful weekend for Welsh Sports, | 1:48:22 | 1:48:28 | |
the dragon is flying high. At half- time in the 2012 Carling Cup final, | 1:48:28 | 1:48:32 | |
we have an upset on the cards. we have an upset on the cards. | 1:48:32 | 1:48:36 | |
Cardiff City 1, Liverpool 0. Five teams from outside the top | 1:48:36 | 1:48:40 | |
flight have won this League Cup over the years. Cardiff City has | 1:48:40 | 1:48:44 | |
got themselves in a good position. They have not read the script. The | 1:48:44 | 1:48:48 | |
first 20 minutes was all the trouble. I thought Cardiff gave | 1:48:48 | 1:48:53 | |
them too much time and space. After that, Cardiff have defended | 1:48:53 | 1:49:01 | |
magnificently. They have got the goal. 6 and 7s behind the ball but | 1:49:02 | 1:49:05 | |
apart from a couple of brilliant Downing crosses, Liverpool have had | 1:49:05 | 1:49:12 | |
a lot of possession. Second best at half-time, but you have got to say | 1:49:12 | 1:49:17 | |
that Cardiff deserved what they have got. Great start. The Welsh | 1:49:17 | 1:49:23 | |
weekend goes on and on. Less to a saw a be it carries on. The first | 1:49:23 | 1:49:27 | |
20 minutes are all for Liverpool. One good attack from Cardiff with a | 1:49:27 | 1:49:34 | |
great ball from Kenny Miller into Joe Mason. Malky Mackay was brought | 1:49:34 | 1:49:40 | |
in, and that was a wise move, bringing in Mark Hudson. They have | 1:49:40 | 1:49:44 | |
had bodies in front, but he has made one or two interceptions. He | 1:49:44 | 1:49:50 | |
has been top class. I think what has happened, the way Malky Mackay | 1:49:50 | 1:49:56 | |
has set up his team with his stead and Miller, Miller has been trying | 1:49:56 | 1:50:06 | |
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to drop-off. -- Gestede. Normally there would be a whole but that has | 1:50:08 | 1:50:13 | |
not been happening. I have to agree, they have deserved it. Two players | 1:50:13 | 1:50:17 | |
in the Liverpool team have to do more. Jordan Henderson and Andy | 1:50:17 | 1:50:25 | |
Carroll, we need more. Within 10 are 15 minutes, I would bring Bell | 1:50:25 | 1:50:32 | |
on. Liverpool are starting to faucet. Kenny will be stressed with | 1:50:32 | 1:50:38 | |
them at half-time, they have to get it done. If Bellamy comes on, they | 1:50:38 | 1:50:43 | |
have to get it to him. Downing has put two sensational balls into the | 1:50:43 | 1:50:53 | |
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box. For this game to become a box. For this game to become a | 1:50:54 | 1:50:58 | |
spectacle, it needs a Cardiff goal. A Kenny Miller is great in his | 1:50:58 | 1:51:02 | |
position. He is always looking to come away from the defenders. He | 1:51:02 | 1:51:10 | |
comes in, and that is a lovely pass. That is a sweet finish. Great play | 1:51:10 | 1:51:15 | |
but poor defending. It was a poor defender by Skrtel. Jose Enrique | 1:51:15 | 1:51:19 | |
and Daniel Agger are miles apart. It could have been avoided, | 1:51:19 | 1:51:27 | |
basically. It was a clever pass. Fantastic. And a great finish and | 1:51:27 | 1:51:31 | |
tremendous composure. 20 minutes before that, they could not get | 1:51:31 | 1:51:35 | |
into the game. They could not get a kick of the ball. What a stupid | 1:51:35 | 1:51:45 | |
game, footballers. Except with that Kenny Miller chance. We sport about | 1:51:45 | 1:51:51 | |
Kenny Miller before the game. In PE does not want to stand against | 1:51:51 | 1:51:56 | |
Kenny Miller. He uses his brain and he is clever. Look at and there. | 1:51:56 | 1:52:00 | |
Standing between the centre halves. He finds the space. That was the | 1:52:00 | 1:52:07 | |
only decent chance. But that is only decent chance. But that is | 1:52:07 | 1:52:12 | |
top-class play for. The only thing that lets him down was the finish. | 1:52:12 | 1:52:16 | |
Liverpool went close early on. we mentioned earlier on about | 1:52:16 | 1:52:19 | |
Cardiff playing and attacking. They Cardiff playing and attacking. They | 1:52:19 | 1:52:25 | |
have so many men appear. -- men up here. Between that and the centre | 1:52:25 | 1:52:32 | |
backs, it is a million miles. Glen Johnson hits the bar. He runs from | 1:52:32 | 1:52:36 | |
right-back to inside-left. They come back to him and the liver | 1:52:36 | 1:52:39 | |
bought -- there are Liverpool bodies there. It is a fantastic | 1:52:39 | 1:52:45 | |
effort and he is unlucky. I do not think we will ever see five Cardiff | 1:52:45 | 1:52:51 | |
players... Look at best. He wins the ball there. The space between | 1:52:51 | 1:52:58 | |
that lot and the centre backs is miles. And he got punished for it. | 1:52:58 | 1:53:05 | |
Terrific effort. You watch that, and you're thinking, trouble. The | 1:53:05 | 1:53:09 | |
way the game panned out in the first 20 minutes, we were sitting | 1:53:09 | 1:53:13 | |
here saying that Liverpool have too much time and space and Cardiff are | 1:53:13 | 1:53:19 | |
much time and space and Cardiff are not getting in their faces. Maybe | 1:53:19 | 1:53:24 | |
marquee will have to sacrifice a striker. There is too much space in | 1:53:24 | 1:53:29 | |
midfield for Liverpool. I expected it stays 1-0, he may sacrifice one | 1:53:29 | 1:53:38 | |
later. -- I expect if it stays. A possible and ball from Taylor. | 1:53:38 | 1:53:41 | |
for me. I think Mark Clatternberg for me. I think Mark Clatternberg | 1:53:41 | 1:53:50 | |
got it absolutely right. I am not sure. Not for me. It just clips him. | 1:53:50 | 1:53:56 | |
Are you sure? I do not think that is a penalty. I think the referee | 1:53:56 | 1:54:03 | |
got it right. It is movement, isn't it? There is movement with his left | 1:54:03 | 1:54:08 | |
hand. It doesn't matter what we hand. It doesn't matter what we | 1:54:08 | 1:54:12 | |
think. It is of the referee thinks. That is a good point. Liverpool had | 1:54:12 | 1:54:16 | |
their chances early on. Overall, their chances early on. Overall, | 1:54:16 | 1:54:24 | |
they have had chances. Chris mentioned it. Jordan Henderson | 1:54:24 | 1:54:34 | |
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picks it up. It is too easy. No pressure on the ball. Into Suarez | 1:54:35 | 1:54:45 | |
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and Andy Carroll comes in... He has to do better here. We mentioned the | 1:54:45 | 1:54:50 | |
crosses. This is what Downing is capable of. That is a great ball. | 1:54:50 | 1:54:54 | |
Andy Carroll is expecting the ball to be in the air. He has to attack | 1:54:54 | 1:55:04 | |
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that ball. Downing his inside out. That is a poor finish. You want | 1:55:10 | 1:55:17 | |
Steven Gerrard, rather than Anderson. -- Henderson. That tackle | 1:55:17 | 1:55:25 | |
from Mark Hudson was fantastic. A fantastic challenge. They have had | 1:55:25 | 1:55:30 | |
their fair share of chances but in fairness, Cardiff have defended | 1:55:30 | 1:55:34 | |
really well. Plenty to do in the really well. Plenty to do in the | 1:55:34 | 1:55:39 | |
second half. Not long now until you have to do your bit for Sport | 1:55:39 | 1:55:49 | |
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There was some important games played in the Barclay's Premier | 1:56:19 | 1:56:22 | |
League today. An extraordinary League today. An extraordinary | 1:56:22 | 1:56:25 | |
north London derby watched by Jonathan Pearce. | 1:56:25 | 1:56:30 | |
Another North London epic on Oscar's weekend. Lily sat astride | 1:56:30 | 1:56:34 | |
an unopposed into the middle. He put Tottenham ahead after four | 1:56:34 | 1:56:38 | |
minutes. Arsenal seemed on the way to successive home league defeats | 1:56:38 | 1:56:43 | |
when Adebayor scored half an hour later after Szczesny was judged to | 1:56:43 | 1:56:51 | |
have brought down Gareth Bale. Two minutes later, van Persie curled in | 1:56:51 | 1:56:56 | |
a delicious equaliser from 20 yards. Six minutes after the break, the | 1:56:56 | 1:57:01 | |
comeback was complete. Rosicky in one of his best displayed started a | 1:57:01 | 1:57:09 | |
counter-attack. He finished existing clay. Theo Walcott tucked | 1:57:09 | 1:57:15 | |
in two inside three minutes to put them 5-2 up. Spurs' misery was | 1:57:15 | 1:57:17 | |
completed once Bob Parker was sent off. | 1:57:17 | 1:57:21 | |
off. Also in action, Norwich and | 1:57:21 | 1:57:25 | |
Also in action, Norwich and Manchester United. | 1:57:25 | 1:57:30 | |
On his 900th Manchester United appearance, Ryan Giggs scored the | 1:57:30 | 1:57:35 | |
crucial winning goal. That other veteran, Paul Scholes, had put the | 1:57:35 | 1:57:42 | |
champions in front in the 7th minute. Two brilliant saves kept | 1:57:42 | 1:57:45 | |
out Antony Pilkington. It was the Norwich captain who equalised eight | 1:57:46 | 1:57:51 | |
minutes from time with an explosive drive. United dug deep and after | 1:57:51 | 1:57:55 | |
Welbeck missed a glorious chance, Ryan Giggs converted young's | 1:57:55 | 1:58:04 | |
inviting centre for. You could not inviting centre for. You could not | 1:58:04 | 1:58:06 | |
write that script. I think this script has been written off and | 1:58:06 | 1:58:09 | |
about Manchester United. Another game played in the | 1:58:09 | 1:58:13 | |
Barclay's Premier League, and it has just the second finished. Stoke | 1:58:13 | 1:58:18 | |
City have beaten Swansea by 2-0. Goals from Peter Crouch and Oxon. | 1:58:18 | 1:58:28 | |
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We will have a full report at the seven points and are only just | 1:58:34 | 1:58:42 | |
clear of North London neighbours Arsenal. Stoke climb two places | 1:58:42 | 1:58:49 | |
after victory. They beat Swansea today. Blackburn and we can end the | 1:58:49 | 1:58:59 | |
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week in the relegation places. -- There's been a big game in League 1 | 1:59:05 | 1:59:12 | |
today. A game of few chances between the two promotion chasers. | 1:59:13 | 1:59:17 | |
That was until Lewis Buxton which put in this cross with 17 minutes | 1:59:17 | 1:59:22 | |
remaining and Chris O'Grady headed in his 7th league goal of the | 1:59:22 | 1:59:32 | |
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And we have some decent live football coming up on BBC | 2:00:09 | 2:00:19 | |
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television! With four games in the We have got a perfectly balanced | 2:00:59 | 2:01:04 | |
game here in the Carling Cup Final. What about that Derby, it was | 2:01:04 | 2:01:14 | |
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You were thinking if got none would win this, they would come back. It | 2:01:21 | 2:01:31 | |
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was the most amazing game we have Let's look ahead now to the second | 2:01:45 | 2:01:51 | |
half here. Kenny is the man under pressure now. You know him really | 2:01:51 | 2:01:56 | |
well. What will he be like in the dressing room? I think if he | 2:01:56 | 2:01:59 | |
doesn't make a change already he will give it 10, 15 minutes and | 2:02:00 | 2:02:03 | |
then bring on Craig Bellamy for Andy Carroll or Henderson, who I | 2:02:03 | 2:02:08 | |
said I believe have to give more to the team. More than they gave in | 2:02:08 | 2:02:16 | |
the first half. No surprised me there. I would be surprised if it | 2:02:16 | 2:02:19 | |
stays exactly the same. Is there the sense that he can make his | 2:02:19 | 2:02:24 | |
players believe they can do this? Yes. Somehow keep your composure. | 2:02:24 | 2:02:29 | |
The fans will be getting more and more excited. Just keep your | 2:02:29 | 2:02:34 | |
composure of know what you're doing. Melt the attack, by all means, but | 2:02:34 | 2:02:44 | |
just keep your composure. -- amount to the attack. You'll get put under | 2:02:44 | 2:02:47 | |
massive, massive pressure by Gerrard is the man. He has got to | 2:02:48 | 2:02:53 | |
galvanise and lead the team boss Bob Kenny will be stressed. They | 2:02:53 | 2:03:03 | |
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have to put Cardiff under more We have seen them whip in | 2:03:07 | 2:03:13 | |
tremendous balls. Kenny is having a word with the officials. He is | 2:03:13 | 2:03:20 | |
smiling now but he might be pointing out that ball, that | 2:03:20 | 2:03:30 | |
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will be difficult because if they do what Allen has just said and | 2:03:32 | 2:03:38 | |
keep Cardiff running about and keep the ball, 30 minutes to go, Bellamy | 2:03:38 | 2:03:43 | |
has got that pays better than anybody. That is where they could | 2:03:43 | 2:03:50 | |
come unstuck. But it remains to be seen. I am pretty sure that you | 2:03:50 | 2:03:56 | |
could see them sacrifice a centre- forward. Or put another midfield on. | 2:03:56 | 2:04:00 | |
But I suspect we will see more chances in this hot. Liverpool will | 2:04:00 | 2:04:04 | |
have lots and lots of possession and it is just how they use it that | 2:04:04 | 2:04:09 | |
will determine whether they win this game or not. This could be the | 2:04:09 | 2:04:14 | |
most important 45 minutes in the lives of those Cardiff players. The | 2:04:14 | 2:04:19 | |
chance to win some silverware. We shall seek. Back to our | 2:04:19 | 2:04:27 | |
commentators. Thank you, Gary. Liverpool's player | 2:04:27 | 2:04:32 | |
has just been made to wait. And they would like to win a major | 2:04:32 | 2:04:36 | |
trophy again. At the moment, they are going to have to work really | 2:04:36 | 2:04:42 | |
hard to turn this around because it is Cardiff's to news at the moment, | 2:04:42 | 2:04:52 | |
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thanks to this young man. -- Wembley during the half-time break! | 2:05:06 | 2:05:16 | |
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You can't believe anybody wants to listen to that! Pardon? Sorry?! | 2:05:17 | 2:05:26 | |
we go. If that is ringing in our ears, I am sure the words of Kenny | 2:05:26 | 2:05:30 | |
Dalglish of bringing in the ears of the Liverpool players. No changes | 2:05:30 | 2:05:40 | |
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things don't improve. -- know what having. Scored in his last | 2:06:10 | 2:06:20 | |
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appearance, 23rd January, a 3-2 win advantage should have been played, | 2:06:27 | 2:06:37 | |
and with good reason. Yes. Unless the referee blew the whistle a bit | 2:06:37 | 2:06:41 | |
earlier and we didn't hear it. Words being exchanged between the | 2:06:41 | 2:06:50 | |
Liverpool manager and the officials in the technical area. Things are | 2:06:50 | 2:07:00 | |
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not going for that young man at the Dalglish on the edge of that | 2:07:05 | 2:07:09 | |
technical area. What will he have said at half-time? You know him | 2:07:09 | 2:07:14 | |
well enough. Just a key player in, keep the ball moving. I do think | 2:07:14 | 2:07:22 | |
they have got to get a couple of people more forward. -- just to | 2:07:22 | 2:07:32 | |
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know that Cardiff have got that tackle. Cardiff City, 22 times the | 2:07:46 | 2:07:56 | |
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Welsh Cup winners. Just one FA Cup win. Cardiff are putting the | 2:07:56 | 2:08:06 | |
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lovely bit of approach from Cardiff. Excellent, isn't it? This is the | 2:08:29 | 2:08:39 | |
ball here... It all opened up. We've seen two of those from Don | 2:08:39 | 2:08:44 | |
Cowie now. I think he can lay claim to be the greatest ever footballer | 2:08:44 | 2:08:51 | |
to come from the Highlands. Ross Jack was another. You need to get | 2:08:51 | 2:09:01 | |
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not pick it up, but there is hardly any reaction from Carroll when the | 2:10:00 | 2:10:10 | |
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ball get picked up. Just on the equalising goal. And a huge | 2:11:32 | 2:11:38 | |
deflection on that Liverpool corner. He is claiming handball, Suarez. He | 2:11:39 | 2:11:48 | |
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that will be the first yellow card of the match. Unfortunately, Jordan | 2:12:12 | 2:12:22 | |
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Henderson, he has had a poor day knee. I go back to your comment - | 2:12:34 | 2:12:44 | |
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you have got arms, so where are you Liverpool will make a change. They | 2:13:00 | 2:13:10 | |
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in anything like that, that little clatter there. -- Henderson cannot | 2:14:12 | 2:14:21 | |
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great pace but Mason is through the middle. And now back from | 2:14:35 | 2:14:41 | |
Whittingham. A pretty good tackle in the end from Agger and Cardiff | 2:14:41 | 2:14:51 | |
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are to throw it. Still shaking his head at his own mistake. Three | 2:14:54 | 2:15:04 | |
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Liverpool players are going through it out... We're just going to look | 2:15:58 | 2:16:08 | |
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back at the possible handball too Blanc. -- Suarez just held on a | 2:16:30 | 2:16:39 | |
little too long. Yes. The timing of those tackles from the Cardiff | 2:16:39 | 2:16:49 | |
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to those balls, the Liverpool That was lazy more than anything. | 2:17:26 | 2:17:32 | |
And now we think we have a change we expected. Craig Bellamy coming | 2:17:32 | 2:17:41 | |
on and Jordan Henderson, having been booked, going off. Now it is | 2:17:41 | 2:17:47 | |
happening. It is great when you come on and you are cheered by both | 2:17:47 | 2:17:57 | |
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sets of supporters. Cardiff side between the Borough boys. | 2:18:14 | 2:18:24 | |
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shimmy to divert the attention of try and knocking it into the path | 2:18:50 | 2:19:00 | |
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of Miller but couldn't get to the Liverpool have had eight now. -- | 2:19:36 | 2:19:46 | |
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Skrtel with the equaliser! Liverpool are level! Anfield South | 2:19:55 | 2:20:01 | |
has erupted! That is the first time in this game Cardiff have failed to | 2:20:01 | 2:20:06 | |
clear their lines. They have been so good. Talk about defending | 2:20:07 | 2:20:16 | |
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decisively. Suarez was unlucky. He only found the woodwork. But Skrtel | 2:20:21 | 2:20:28 | |
reacted like a striker of. scored last week, did he not? | 2:20:28 | 2:20:33 | |
Two in two for Skrtel. And that the other end, Cardiff breaking | 2:20:33 | 2:20:43 | |
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forward... Just having a look back on the touchline. Very frustrated | 2:20:58 | 2:21:08 | |
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at seeing Liverpool equaliser. is it. Certainly not a penalty, | 2:21:09 | 2:21:19 | |
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now. You can seem from Skrtel's reaction, no thought of celebration. | 2:21:44 | 2:21:53 | |
-- you can see. Just back to the hard work. This end is the noisiest | 2:21:53 | 2:22:03 | |
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it has been all there! I wonder if he decided to change his team to | 2:22:05 | 2:22:12 | |
change the game a little bit. Dalglish wants anything but calm | 2:22:12 | 2:22:22 | |
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from his team now. They are feeding of scoring goals, but two in two | 2:23:02 | 2:23:11 | |
weekends. Yes. And had a really good season as well. Quite a bit of | 2:23:11 | 2:23:21 | |
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injury in the early days. And Jamie Carragher can't get into the team | 2:23:22 | 2:23:32 | |
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pass the ball. And that is going nowhere. No. Cardiff need to go | 2:23:52 | 2:24:02 | |
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through a spell of "just keep the from the start. Both teams for a | 2:24:56 | 2:25:06 | |
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committed to attacking. -- fully And Bellamy claims that Heaton put | 2:25:41 | 2:25:51 | |
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that through for the corner. He did get a touch on it. The referee's | 2:25:55 | 2:26:05 | |
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assistant gave it. But after some fully expecting him to shift that | 2:27:20 | 2:27:30 | |
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from his left foot. Yes. You try to run across your marker. A big | 2:27:30 | 2:27:40 | |
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moment. They are chasing around for at the moment. Taylor's just heard | 2:28:01 | 2:28:11 | |
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himself in blocking that. He will for a goal kick. I think the | 2:28:28 | 2:28:38 | |
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referee is right. He asked, did it come off me? It didn't tell us. But | 2:28:42 | 2:28:52 | |
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competition. I suspect we knew they would score at some point today. | 2:29:06 | 2:29:12 | |
Who scores next is so important. Yeah. Cardiff and their defending | 2:29:12 | 2:29:19 | |
are excellent. This was Joe Mason's best ball so far. Needed some sort | 2:29:19 | 2:29:29 | |
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of heavy deflection on it to find a deep, isn't he? We could see | 2:29:58 | 2:30:08 | |
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are a real threat down the right. They were down the left in the | 2:30:14 | 2:30:21 | |
first but now down the right. ball has been played out by Charlie | 2:30:21 | 2:30:28 | |
Adam. And that is because Gunnarsson has a problem. Was he | 2:30:28 | 2:30:35 | |
hit on the ear? Mackay would have shrub that sort of thing off in his | 2:30:36 | 2:30:45 | |
playing days! -- would have shrugged. Based at Norwich and at | 2:30:45 | 2:30:54 | |
Carrow Road. That was Gerrard smashing into Gunnarsson. He was | 2:30:54 | 2:31:01 | |
blocking him, no doubt about that. Even so... And Gerrard is raise the | 2:31:01 | 2:31:09 | |
arms. Self-defence? I think he is a bit lucky. No real Cardiff | 2:31:09 | 2:31:14 | |
complains apart from Aron Gunnarsson. Look at that. It was a | 2:31:14 | 2:31:24 | |
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deliberate block from Gunnarsson. three seasons and a Road, Norwich, | 2:31:47 | 2:31:57 | |
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a lull in the action. The it is just that the back injury. -- it is | 2:32:45 | 2:32:55 | |
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figure through, 89,041 spectators Instinctive, it came at him in a | 2:33:39 | 2:33:49 | |
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important says, albeit from efforts Wales are still enjoying their | 2:34:57 | 2:35:01 | |
afternoon, at their 4th trip for quite a few of them. Still in good | 2:35:01 | 2:35:06 | |
voice, as are those in red. Thereafter there has got a lot | 2:35:06 | 2:35:16 | |
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better in the last 20 minutes. -- It is Hudson. A -- some body is | 2:36:10 | 2:36:16 | |
down. Jose Enrique Ponce dead. There is some jeering from the | 2:36:17 | 2:36:21 | |
Liverpool supporters, but I think it is right -- Jose Enrique put it | 2:36:21 | 2:36:27 | |
out. They would wanted the other way. It is the way that thankfully | 2:36:27 | 2:36:37 | |
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the game is played at 90% of the distance. He has played -- missed | 2:36:45 | 2:36:49 | |
six games and performed really solidly. He has done really well. | 2:36:49 | 2:36:55 | |
And in the Cup final, there is an added tension. Change of plan. | 2:36:55 | 2:37:02 | |
Malky Mackay is desperately trying to get the message to Kenny Miller. | 2:37:02 | 2:37:08 | |
There is the liveable equalising goal. -- Liverpool. Suarez thought | 2:37:08 | 2:37:13 | |
he had got it. He reacted really quickly, Skrtel. Andy Carroll | 2:37:13 | 2:37:23 | |
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played a part as well, used its celebrating the, barging Charlie | 2:37:23 | 2:37:33 | |
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came in to try and pick up the rebound. What for? Downing has | 2:38:00 | 2:38:04 | |
thought about it once or twice, this time he has had a go. A decent | 2:38:04 | 2:38:12 | |
strike and a good save. I guess he was active as he chased it. Off- | 2:38:12 | 2:38:22 | |
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course you are active. Arguably. one goalkeeper in sparkling form in | 2:38:29 | 2:38:34 | |
the Carling Cup final and Tom Heaton his sparkling this year. -- | 2:38:34 | 2:38:44 | |
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Or did he slip? Or was that both. That is how Mark Clattenburg saw | 2:39:17 | 2:39:25 | |
red. There is a brush-off hands. Shall We Dance? -- brush of hands. | 2:39:25 | 2:39:35 | |
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A bit of both. But a card a free down straight away. How does Mark | 2:40:39 | 2:40:44 | |
Clattenburg interpret this? Accidental from Turner? It must | 2:40:45 | 2:40:54 | |
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have been. A just feeling for it. The way that Agger went down | 2:40:57 | 2:41:07 | |
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players and I thought he would slotted into someone on the edge of | 2:42:02 | 2:42:12 | |
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warm ups. He could still -- soon be Gunnarsson long throw for Liverpool | 2:42:53 | 2:43:03 | |
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to defend. No, it's not. Taken By really clever bit of football, | 2:43:10 | 2:43:16 | |
it will lolled Liverpool into thinking it was the long throw. | 2:43:16 | 2:43:21 | |
Then turn around the back. He just didn't make contact. -- Ben Turner | 2:43:21 | 2:43:31 | |
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around the back. It should have been a goal. It has got the Cardiff | 2:43:37 | 2:43:47 | |
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fans are on their feet and singing times and the Carling Cup this | 2:44:27 | 2:44:33 | |
season. Twice, they have gone to penalties. -- in that the Carling | 2:44:33 | 2:44:43 | |
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goalkeeper. Cardiff were struggling to get back there. The manager was | 2:45:18 | 2:45:20 | |
frantically waving them back to frantically waving them back to | 2:45:20 | 2:45:30 | |
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frantically waving them back to Turner. It started reaching Suarez. | 2:45:58 | 2:46:08 | |
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A key just threw himself in the way getting in the way of everything | 2:46:12 | 2:46:18 | |
for Cardiff. Liverpool forced to make a change -- change thanks to | 2:46:18 | 2:46:28 | |
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injury. Agger coming off and on organising the minute he set foot | 2:46:41 | 2:46:51 | |
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on the pitch. Liverpool's hour. If they are not going to get | 2:46:54 | 2:47:04 | |
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a win now, that is. I think we all Apologies to those who are pretty | 2:47:24 | 2:47:34 | |
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win it than that? Liverpool are arguing amongst themselves. They've | 2:47:49 | 2:47:53 | |
been Charlie Adam left him. It was exactly the player they wanted it | 2:47:53 | 2:48:03 | |
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to come to. Great run by Kenny You would absolutely back him to | 2:48:34 | 2:48:44 | |
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Joe Mason did score in the first hard to say who has been better, | 2:49:04 | 2:49:14 | |
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Gestede. Then holding on to the ball, eating up a bit of time to | 2:49:46 | 2:49:52 | |
make sure Cardiff can't break. Keystone cops, there. That is a | 2:49:52 | 2:50:02 | |
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good touch from the raft. -- be at least Macro 4 minutes. -- | 2:50:26 | 2:50:36 | |
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he tried for a really special finish. Bellamy had made a late run | 2:50:39 | 2:50:49 | |
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and he could have spread the ball man to finally kill off the hopes | 2:51:37 | 2:51:46 | |
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Kenny Miller chance will turn out to be. That was the moment for | 2:52:11 | 2:52:19 | |
Cardiff to win it. Malky Mackay is well used to giving his team at | 2:52:19 | 2:52:29 | |
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talk about going another half-an- game and not the occasion and they | 2:52:29 | 2:52:39 | |
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have certainly done that. But they in the Premier League. The Premier | 2:52:43 | 2:52:47 | |
League team have had more of the ball and more effort on goal, but | 2:52:47 | 2:52:52 | |
Cardiff have given everything to this final as well. A final that | 2:52:52 | 2:53:02 | |
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looks as though it will go another reaction. You can smile and look | 2:53:16 | 2:53:26 | |
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incredulous at the same time. it right? There is your answer. Yes. | 2:53:30 | 2:53:40 | |
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Now we look at Mark Clattenburg. Both sets of supporters are in full | 2:54:20 | 2:54:28 | |
voice. They are going to have Duc carry on singing. They will have to | 2:54:28 | 2:54:33 | |
summon up energy levels as well. That is it, full-time in the 2012 | 2:54:34 | 2:54:38 | |
Carling Cup final, which is going the distance. Joe Mason in the | 2:54:38 | 2:54:41 | |
first half of for Cardiff, Martin Skrtel with the early second-half | 2:54:41 | 2:54:47 | |
equaliser. But neither team able to find a win as yet. Another 30 | 2:54:47 | 2:54:51 | |
minutes of extra time to come. Time for Malky Mackay and Kenny Dalglish | 2:54:51 | 2:54:55 | |
to weave their words of magic. I hope you enjoy the extra time, we | 2:54:55 | 2:55:05 | |
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will. Full-time, 1-1. GARY LINEKER: Great stuff, | 2:55:11 | 2:55:14 | |
enthralling, and the Carling Cup are still up for grabs. Give us | 2:55:14 | 2:55:19 | |
another 30 minutes and it could even be decided by the penalty | 2:55:19 | 2:55:24 | |
shoot-out. Gutsy stuff. Unbelievable, a great game to watch. | 2:55:24 | 2:55:31 | |
Only one word to describe the Cardiff performance, grit. When you | 2:55:31 | 2:55:36 | |
think about determination and character, lots of quality, but | 2:55:36 | 2:55:40 | |
playing their heart out when they are basically on their knees. They | 2:55:40 | 2:55:44 | |
are a credit to Malky Mackay. Kenny Miller could have won it in the end, | 2:55:44 | 2:55:48 | |
and in all honesty, the last 20 minutes, when you thought because | 2:55:48 | 2:55:51 | |
Liverpool had so much possession that Cardiff would be struggling, | 2:55:51 | 2:55:57 | |
they were every bit as good as Liverpool. Down on their backs, | 2:55:57 | 2:55:59 | |
getting amass large, it is important to keep concentration and | 2:55:59 | 2:56:05 | |
try and get some energy levels -- a mass large. I felt that the longer | 2:56:05 | 2:56:11 | |
the second half went on and it was still 1-0 and Cardiff hadn't got | 2:56:11 | 2:56:15 | |
the second, they were running a lot without the ball. When Liverpool | 2:56:15 | 2:56:20 | |
equalised, you thought they would win it. We saw Kenny Miller follow- | 2:56:20 | 2:56:25 | |
up, we thought he had done his hamstring and he had got a bit of | 2:56:25 | 2:56:32 | |
treatment and he was a fine! The Cardiff players had to stay in the | 2:56:32 | 2:56:37 | |
game at times but it has been an enthralling final. Just two goals, | 2:56:37 | 2:56:45 | |
one for each side. This was the card of one. It was great play from | 2:56:45 | 2:56:50 | |
Kenny Miller in a whole. One-touch, left but, pass with the right foot. | 2:56:50 | 2:56:54 | |
The wake of the pass was brilliant to Mason and an excellent finish. - | 2:56:54 | 2:57:00 | |
- the weight. Kenny Miller has a look around and says where | 2:57:00 | 2:57:07 | |
everybody is and picks out the past. -- sees where. And this, Skrtel | 2:57:07 | 2:57:13 | |
scores the sand Hudson has been magnificent, just look at him here. | 2:57:13 | 2:57:22 | |
He lets him go, and it is in the back of the neck. Skrtel is making | 2:57:23 | 2:57:30 | |
up for that his poor positioning on the Cardiff goal. We -- for his. | 2:57:30 | 2:57:35 | |
When we thought a liveable by just keep calm and push on, they did | 2:57:35 | 2:57:39 | |
have one or two chances -- when we thought Liverpool would just kick | 2:57:39 | 2:57:43 | |
on and push on, they did have one or two chances but not as many as | 2:57:43 | 2:57:48 | |
we thought. This is Skrtel again, at a little volley. This was a | 2:57:48 | 2:57:53 | |
great chance. A great ball in, Ben Turner at the back post. If that | 2:57:53 | 2:57:57 | |
was a great chance, this one was even better. For me minutes from | 2:57:57 | 2:58:06 | |
time. Look who is trying to tackle him, Andy Carroll. You have got to | 2:58:06 | 2:58:11 | |
score that, it is a fantastic chance. How do you see it going? It | 2:58:11 | 2:58:16 | |
is so tough to call. It will be harsh on whoever. Quality wise, | 2:58:16 | 2:58:19 | |
there has been no different and that is the biggest compliment I | 2:58:19 | 2:58:24 | |
can play Cardiff. There has been nothing between the teams. What | 2:58:24 | 2:58:28 | |
will go in Cardiff's favour is they have been here two or three times | 2:58:28 | 2:58:35 | |
this season in the Cup. Four times. Twice two penalties. I think | 2:58:35 | 2:58:40 | |
liveable will win, and I want them to win, but I don't want Cardiff to | 2:58:40 | 2:58:47 | |
lose -- I think Liverpool will win. Howdy work that one out? -- How do | 2:58:47 | 2:58:53 | |
you work that one out? They had done so much. And he has played | 2:58:53 | 2:59:00 | |
brilliantly. They have given it a lot. Extra time is ready for Guy | 2:59:00 | 2:59:05 | |
and mark. The bad news is, somebody is going | 2:59:05 | 2:59:10 | |
to lose at the end of this, either in the next half-an-hour or on | 2:59:10 | 2:59:14 | |
penalties. You may have seen the graphic coming up to tell you about | 2:59:14 | 2:59:18 | |
the Cardiff changed for extra time. It is one for the headline writers, | 2:59:18 | 2:59:24 | |
Joe Mason has gone off and on has come Fill kiss. Can he see it for | 2:59:24 | 2:59:34 | |
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on a season-long loan. They will be glued to this there, as in so many | 2:59:48 | 2:59:53 | |
countries around the world. What an advert for English football, a | 2:59:53 | 2:59:57 | |
packed Wembley, great noise, a cracking game of football and a | 2:59:57 | 3:00:01 | |
team from the second Dear holding their own against a team from the | 3:00:01 | 3:00:11 | |
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That looked as though it might creep in and then... It was going | 3:00:23 | 3:00:33 | |
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wide but he couldn't take that chance. It was and he couldn't. | 3:00:33 | 3:00:43 | |
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Craig Bellamy has just acknowledged cracking start! Brilliant Cardiff | 3:01:05 | 3:01:15 | |
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City defending. All in the right area and it is claimed there was a | 3:01:21 | 3:01:31 | |
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touch. And there was. They are stretching the game all the time | 3:01:33 | 3:01:43 | |
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target like that the whole Dave. -- played the full might himself. | 3:02:14 | 3:02:18 | |
Calling for big breaths and extra effort from his players. The 5th | 3:02:18 | 3:02:27 | |
time they have gone into extra time in this competition this season. | 3:02:27 | 3:02:33 | |
Huddersfield, Leicester, Oxford, way back when in the first round. | 3:02:33 | 3:02:42 | |
And Cardiff starting from scratch. And then Crystal Palace in the | 3:02:42 | 3:02:52 | |
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spite of that cramp at earlier on. Yes. He has had some treatment and | 3:03:17 | 3:03:27 | |
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some liquid dye, so he should be OK. up. He was looking for just the | 3:04:07 | 3:04:17 | |
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right red-show did player -- distance of the kick. And Enrique | 3:04:37 | 3:04:45 | |
ran into the challenge of Kiss. Enrique somehow managed to keep | 3:04:45 | 3:04:55 | |
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it against Jose Enrico. -- Jose clubs. Those Marigolds have done | 3:06:46 | 3:06:56 | |
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well! They certainly have! card for Kiss. Yes. It told him his | 3:07:31 | 3:07:40 | |
future! Well and truly collared. And I don't think he was after a | 3:07:40 | 3:07:50 | |
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kiss, either! Hudson has struggled and I think his time has come. He | 3:07:52 | 3:07:58 | |
has been outstanding in his first match to lead the team. Coming on | 3:07:58 | 3:08:06 | |
in his plays will be Anthony Gerrard. An outstanding performance | 3:08:06 | 3:08:15 | |
by him, when you consider how long he played... There widow. Steve's | 3:08:15 | 3:08:19 | |
cousin. Of course, they were heavily featured in the build-up to | 3:08:19 | 3:08:22 | |
the game and remember playing football in their grandmother's | 3:08:22 | 3:08:32 | |
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back garden together. Apparently with the family, a hundred tickets | 3:08:37 | 3:08:47 | |
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spread between them around the very much a Liverpool fan growing | 3:08:57 | 3:09:07 | |
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hit one and he did, but not particularly accurate leave. But | 3:09:35 | 3:09:45 | |
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that said, is this a better game for him? Absolutely, yes. He did a | 3:09:45 | 3:09:52 | |
runner as a version a couple of years ago against Aston Villa. But | 3:09:52 | 3:09:56 | |
he says he doesn't count that because he didn't get onto the | 3:09:56 | 3:10:06 | |
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the yellow-card that Filip Kiss received. Never quite developed | 3:10:52 | 3:11:02 | |
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Not surprising. Things have slowed They were going to put Kuyt on but | 3:11:38 | 3:11:44 | |
I think they will delay that for this corner. Not exactly packing | 3:11:44 | 3:11:54 | |
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the box, Liverpool, here. Didn't miss by much. I think that might | 3:11:57 | 3:12:02 | |
have been his best header of the game. And probably one of the more | 3:12:02 | 3:12:12 | |
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difficult. And his last touch as scoring all match, Andy Carroll. | 3:12:23 | 3:12:31 | |
Not happening at Wembley for Liverpool today. Maybe it can with | 3:12:31 | 3:12:39 | |
Kuyt. He would include only fitting if he got his first winners' Medal | 3:12:40 | 3:12:49 | |
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of the club with a goal scored by the blink of an eye. Yeah. Very | 3:13:52 | 3:13:55 | |
difficult and a great bit of play there, when he runs across you, | 3:13:55 | 3:14:01 | |
Bellamy. He comes back and you know where he is going. It is so | 3:14:01 | 3:14:07 | |
difficult to get close enough to him. Patient as well, isn't he? | 3:14:07 | 3:14:17 | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds | 3:14:17 | 3:15:27 | |
Just waiting for the gap to finally many have gone wide from Liverpool. | 3:15:27 | 3:15:34 | |
Yeah. We are nearly finishing the game as we started it, with Glen | 3:15:34 | 3:15:44 | |
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Johnson firing into that Cardiff goal. Our first period of extra- | 3:15:45 | 3:15:55 | |
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in the first 15 minutes. Another 15 minutes to decide the 2012 Carling | 3:15:58 | 3:16:08 | |
Cup Final... Or it will be decided on penalties. Malky Mackay is out | 3:16:08 | 3:16:14 | |
to read the script to his team. I was going to ask you, Mark, where | 3:16:14 | 3:16:19 | |
used all this going, but it is impossible to call? Yes. There you | 3:16:19 | 3:16:29 | |
go! You have called it! I should say, there is a message being read | 3:16:29 | 3:16:39 | |
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out on the Wembley announcer, and trains are now apparently back up | 3:16:41 | 3:16:46 | |
and running from Euston to Liverpool Lime Street. So they can | 3:16:46 | 3:16:54 | |
get home OK! Will they be going home in celebratory mood? And they | 3:16:54 | 3:17:04 | |
don't run that laid on a Sunday. -- that late. Things seemed relaxed in | 3:17:04 | 3:17:08 | |
the Liverpool camp. I think they are thinking, just keep playing, | 3:17:08 | 3:17:16 | |
just keep playing. Cue the Liverpool anthem. They were happy | 3:17:16 | 3:17:24 | |
with that news about the trains! 15 minutes. 15 more huge minutes for | 3:17:24 | 3:17:33 | |
Cardiff City and Liverpool. Or we are going to a penalty shoot-out. | 3:17:33 | 3:17:43 | |
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Nearly always an outstanding chance, going to play for the next 15? Get | 3:18:20 | 3:18:30 | |
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it out, get it away? I can only assume he picked up an injury there | 3:18:30 | 3:18:39 | |
because he is coming off. Nice for Darcy Blake to get on. A Welsh | 3:18:39 | 3:18:48 | |
player through and through. Grew up with and his close friends with | 3:18:48 | 3:18:58 | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds | 3:18:58 | 3:19:47 | |
Wales' boxing hero from last night. was back-pedalling, and that was | 3:19:47 | 3:19:57 | |
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the problem. Just going backwards Cup for Liverpool? The man who's | 3:20:34 | 3:20:41 | |
waited so long to win this battle! He may just have grabbed one for | 3:20:41 | 3:20:50 | |
himself! The thing is, you're watching fresh legs. Look at the | 3:20:50 | 3:20:55 | |
Cardiff players struggling to get anywhere near him. And to react so, | 3:20:55 | 3:21:03 | |
so quickly. -- and he reacts. No one can get near him. No chance to | 3:21:03 | 3:21:13 | |
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react to that what so ever, Tom Heaton. Heaton beaten by the pace | 3:21:14 | 3:21:23 | |
of Kuyt. Will it be the winner? Andy Carroll must be shaking those | 3:21:23 | 3:21:30 | |
long locks. Tried hard with no reward. His team made grabbed the | 3:21:30 | 3:21:35 | |
glory. Let's see what Cardiff had got left now. They have got to go | 3:21:35 | 3:21:45 | |
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one for Liverpool, and yet, he may be the one to bring the silverware | 3:22:18 | 3:22:28 | |
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the most enthusiastic of young fans. Now he is trying hard to stay in | 3:22:44 | 3:22:54 | |
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is the big Tweeter. He is all smiles, Andy Carroll. He would be. | 3:23:17 | 3:23:25 | |
Made the move from Tyneside to Merseyside. A bit harsh on | 3:23:25 | 3:23:32 | |
Newcastle. This is here and now and Liverpool are less than 10 minutes | 3:23:33 | 3:23:39 | |
away from winning the 2012 Carling Cup. Cardiff will keep going, no | 3:23:39 | 3:23:44 | |
doubt about that. Difficult for some of the players to keep going, | 3:23:44 | 3:23:54 | |
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with cramp. Happening again, by the City's ball. Gunnarsson might be | 3:24:23 | 3:24:29 | |
bedevilled by cramp at the moment but his arms are still going! | 3:24:29 | 3:24:39 | |
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moved. Gunnarsson doesn't want it. And Gunnarsson again! And his team | 3:25:00 | 3:25:09 | |
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away from the Cardiff players in front of your eyes. And the fans | 3:25:41 | 3:25:51 | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds | 3:25:51 | 3:26:37 | |
the landing? They have used all three substitutes. He just wants a | 3:26:37 | 3:26:44 | |
bit of TLC, first and foremost. You can just see him bursting past | 3:26:44 | 3:26:54 | |
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them. They just can't keep up. is looking very likely to turn out | 3:26:56 | 3:27:01 | |
to be a famous goal in the history of Liverpool Football Club. Is that | 3:27:01 | 3:27:06 | |
the springboard goal? And that is the reaction of Andrew Taylor. That | 3:27:06 | 3:27:16 | |
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is the reaction of one delighted Kenny Dalglish! He will be 61 next | 3:27:19 | 3:27:24 | |
Sunday, world Kenny Dalglish. If he hadn't got that call 14 months ago | 3:27:24 | 3:27:29 | |
to come back to Liverpool, I wonder what you would have been doing. | 3:27:29 | 3:27:36 | |
on a cruise ship in Bahrain when he got the shout. As it is, you will | 3:27:36 | 3:27:42 | |
be back for a Premier League game against Arsenal next weekend. | 3:27:42 | 3:27:52 | |
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thing is, with this game, it has many red show ats in the way now. | 3:28:15 | 3:28:25 | |
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They can't see through. -- red has been caused a problem. -- of a | 3:28:43 | 3:28:51 | |
touch. He was slow to react, let the ball bounce. Could it be? At | 3:28:51 | 3:29:01 | |
Cardiff's first corner of the match? Four minutes of extra time | 3:29:01 | 3:29:11 | |
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in one of his legs. -- I think he's is another Cardiff corner. They | 3:29:43 | 3:29:50 | |
can't say they're not having a go. Cardiff, giving it everything. And | 3:29:50 | 3:29:57 | |
off the line! And behind for another corner! We have just big | 3:29:57 | 3:30:01 | |
DUP the goalkeeper. I think he has made a mistake, there, though, | 3:30:01 | 3:30:11 | |
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hasn't he? Here becomes again! It is in! Cardiff are level! Turner | 3:30:11 | 3:30:21 | |
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witnessing! If anyone deserved a goal for his team, it is this boy, | 3:30:34 | 3:30:44 | |
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but fantastic, he reacted like a centre forward, I am going to score | 3:30:48 | 3:30:54 | |
this! There you go, they did not have a corner for nearly two hours, | 3:30:54 | 3:30:58 | |
then two Khan in quick succession, two great corners. Yes, and | 3:30:58 | 3:31:08 | |
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Liverpool struggled to defend the booking for that, but he will not | 3:31:19 | 3:31:28 | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 72 seconds | 3:31:29 | 3:32:14 | |
tries to again, and he gets the So gritty, Cardiff, absolutely | 3:32:14 | 3:32:24 | |
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fantastic grit and determination, almost up. There will be one minute | 3:32:44 | 3:32:54 | |
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Gunnarsson. Mark Clattenberg has looked at both of the watchers on | 3:33:32 | 3:33:42 | |
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have gone all the way to penalties, and all the gears are coming from | 3:33:50 | 3:33:54 | |
the Cardiff City supporters. They were beaten, they were finished in | 3:33:54 | 3:33:58 | |
this Carling Cup final, but they had the passion, they had the | 3:33:58 | 3:34:03 | |
resolve to come at Liverpool again and draw themselves level. Quite | 3:34:03 | 3:34:08 | |
incredible! It is going to be settled by kicks from 12 yards. It | 3:34:08 | 3:34:12 | |
has been a superb final, and there's more to come. The full-time | 3:34:12 | 3:34:22 | |
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score his Cardiff City 2, Liverpool performance than what we have seen | 3:34:23 | 3:34:27 | |
from Cardiff this afternoon? Liverpool have played a wonderful | 3:34:27 | 3:34:32 | |
part in a truly memorable game, and now, all of that, it will be | 3:34:32 | 3:34:35 | |
settled by the cruellest and most exciting of outcomes, the penalty | 3:34:35 | 3:34:42 | |
shoot-out. As is said, Alan, you do not want anyone to lose, but I'm | 3:34:42 | 3:34:46 | |
afraid the penalty shoot-out means somebody has to. The game itself | 3:34:46 | 3:34:49 | |
has been pulsating, it really has, one of the best games you will ever | 3:34:49 | 3:34:54 | |
see. Twists and turns, the number of times you thought that Cardiff | 3:34:54 | 3:34:58 | |
were dead and buried, especially in the last five or 10 minutes. They | 3:34:58 | 3:35:03 | |
have come back into it again. He was a hero, every one of the | 3:35:03 | 3:35:08 | |
Cardiff players was. Really interesting seeing Heiton there, | 3:35:08 | 3:35:14 | |
this fellow put it this way, Gerrard hits it that way. For sure. | 3:35:14 | 3:35:18 | |
Nowadays, the key KERS do their homework, if there is a penalty, | 3:35:18 | 3:35:22 | |
the weather is taking the penalty, he has taken three and the left | 3:35:22 | 3:35:26 | |
corner, two in the right. That is the information that he is getting. | 3:35:26 | 3:35:34 | |
Now he has got to remember them all! Kenny is a bit more of school. | 3:35:34 | 3:35:40 | |
But of course Liverpool thought they had won it. Absolutely, I have | 3:35:40 | 3:35:45 | |
to say that I thought Kuyt would have been on earlier. He gets past | 3:35:45 | 3:35:48 | |
the defenders, a little bit of luck with the shot, that was going miles | 3:35:48 | 3:35:54 | |
wide, but he was quickest to react and a very good finish. That is a | 3:35:54 | 3:36:00 | |
shot, not a cross. A fantastic finish. And now there is no way | 3:36:00 | 3:36:07 | |
back. No way at all! They seemed to be dead on their feet. How he gets | 3:36:07 | 3:36:11 | |
that off the line... Kuyt appeared to be the ultimate hero. And he | 3:36:11 | 3:36:16 | |
nearly was with that goal as well, he nearly started. That just sums | 3:36:16 | 3:36:20 | |
Cardiff up, isn't it? They never gave up, all afternoon, they have | 3:36:20 | 3:36:24 | |
been a credit to their manager and to their fans, you have to say. | 3:36:24 | 3:36:28 | |
This fellow has done as much as anyone. My knickers and. Imam | 3:36:28 | 3:36:35 | |
Hudson at the back. He was equally, if not better than Hanson. The | 3:36:35 | 3:36:39 | |
energy that he gave, he went up front for five or 10 minutes. | 3:36:39 | 3:36:45 | |
Thoroughly deserved. A have they got the energy to celebrate? And he | 3:36:45 | 3:36:49 | |
got a yellow card for that. A new lease of life, they have found. | 3:36:49 | 3:36:53 | |
what an absolute pleasure to have sat through that again, incredible, | 3:36:53 | 3:37:01 | |
it really was. A shame that someone has to lose. Will we see a villain, | 3:37:01 | 3:37:06 | |
a terrible mess? Going into penalties, psychologically, Cardiff | 3:37:07 | 3:37:10 | |
are in a better position, they were dead and buried. Liverpool did not | 3:37:10 | 3:37:15 | |
want penalties, because they were leading. Cardiff, psychologically, | 3:37:15 | 3:37:20 | |
are in a better place. Five or 10 nervous guys now, it is such a | 3:37:20 | 3:37:24 | |
horrible position to being, knowing that you have got to go at there. | 3:37:24 | 3:37:28 | |
You have got 80,000 people in the stadium, millions watching on | 3:37:28 | 3:37:33 | |
television. The trophy could depend on you. I do not think we have got | 3:37:33 | 3:37:39 | |
five players fit enough to take penalty kicks! If you look at it | 3:37:39 | 3:37:43 | |
now, it should favour the technically gifted players, which | 3:37:43 | 3:37:53 | |
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Liverpool would age. He doesn't always work like that. You can | 3:37:53 | 3:37:56 | |
practise and practise in training, but you cannot replicate this | 3:37:56 | 3:38:04 | |
situation. Just before we came back, we got knocked out of the Cup, it | 3:38:04 | 3:38:08 | |
came down to the goalkeepers, once thought, one didn't. You never know. | 3:38:08 | 3:38:16 | |
A big factor. Good luck, guys, good luck! OK, well, we will leave the | 3:38:16 | 3:38:19 | |
penalty shoot-out and go to the news. No, in all honesty, we are | 3:38:19 | 3:38:24 | |
going to stick with it! The news will follow this mash. We will stay | 3:38:24 | 3:38:30 | |
with it right to the end. Who knows what is about to happen? We can | 3:38:30 | 3:38:33 | |
join Mark Lawrenson and Guy Mowbray to talk us through it. | 3:38:33 | 3:38:38 | |
Well, this is the news today! Cardiff City against Liverpool in | 3:38:38 | 3:38:44 | |
the Carling Cup final, penalties. Cardiff have already won twice this | 3:38:44 | 3:38:48 | |
way on the road to Wembley. Liverpool have only lost two of 12 | 3:38:48 | 3:38:51 | |
penalty shoot-outs in the club's proud history, including the last | 3:38:51 | 3:38:54 | |
one against Northampton in the second round of this Cup last | 3:38:54 | 3:38:59 | |
season. This is a whole different kettle of fish. First up, Steven | 3:38:59 | 3:39:07 | |
Gerrard, and it is saved by Tom Heaton! What A Safe! Brilliant save. | 3:39:07 | 3:39:15 | |
Absolutely brilliant. What a day he has had. Who would have thought | 3:39:15 | 3:39:21 | |
it?! Under the crossbar. The goalkeeper saved the first two | 3:39:21 | 3:39:30 | |
Crystal Palace penalties in the Miller went first for Cardiff and | 3:39:30 | 3:39:38 | |
he missed. Funny, often the team which misses first ends up winning. | 3:39:38 | 3:39:48 | |
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just about gets his head up, but Miller has missed as well! The | 3:39:53 | 3:40:03 | |
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known cure for constipation, unbelievable if you are taking one | 3:40:10 | 3:40:20 | |
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of them. How is Charlie Adam two first up for Liverpool, who he | 3:40:36 | 3:40:46 | |
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would have banked on, Gerrard and you consider the pressure that he | 3:41:09 | 3:41:19 | |
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Was won it once for Liverpool today. Merseyside derby this season. No | 3:41:28 | 3:41:38 | |
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He has struggled to move in the latter stages of extra time. What | 3:41:55 | 3:42:05 | |
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He just looked tired running up to address the ball, indeed? A lack of | 3:42:12 | 3:42:22 | |
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semi-final, but he would have been fresher then. Stewart Downing has | 3:42:26 | 3:42:30 | |
had a good game for Liverpool, and he carries on that way, too. And | 3:42:30 | 3:42:36 | |
that was nice. Yes, class, he picked his spot. Now the pendulum | 3:42:36 | 3:42:46 | |
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has just swung the red wave. -- Reina. Excellent, wasn't it? It was | 3:43:02 | 3:43:08 | |
as good as Stewart Downing's. after four penalties, and now we | 3:43:08 | 3:43:18 | |
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are really at sudden death. And it Liverpool fans nearly lift the roof | 3:43:32 | 3:43:42 | |
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off Wembley. Cardiff have to score. always knew that he would play a | 3:43:58 | 3:44:04 | |
big part today, but it is the wrong part for Cardiff City, and it is | 3:44:04 | 3:44:09 | |
sheer joy for Liverpool, Bill are bringing a trophy back to the | 3:44:09 | 3:44:15 | |
Anfield cabinet at long last again. They cannot be a worse way to lose | 3:44:15 | 3:44:21 | |
a game than this. Cardiff did absolutely fantastic today. To a | 3:44:21 | 3:44:26 | |
man, they should all be extremely proud of each other. It is always | 3:44:26 | 3:44:31 | |
like Russian roulette, penalties. Liverpool have won it, but Cardiff | 3:44:31 | 3:44:34 | |
should not be themselves up over this, because they have been | 3:44:34 | 3:44:40 | |
outstanding. There always has to be a poor guy. Sadly for Cardiff City, | 3:44:40 | 3:44:44 | |
it was Anthony Gerrard. His cousin Stephen missed his for Liverpool. | 3:44:44 | 3:44:49 | |
It seems as though the nerves and the tired legs got to quite a few | 3:44:49 | 3:44:53 | |
of the players at there. There were more honest than sport, wasn't | 3:44:53 | 3:45:00 | |
there? There work. That is the last one. That they may now when the | 3:45:00 | 3:45:05 | |
right way, but he did not need to get there. -- Pepe Rayner did not | 3:45:05 | 3:45:15 | |
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go down to the pitch to a hear from What a cruel way to lose and a win? | 3:45:26 | 3:45:32 | |
Yes. There always has to be a loser. Cardiff supporters were fantastic | 3:45:32 | 3:45:36 | |
today and they can be proud of their performance. We got through | 3:45:36 | 3:45:41 | |
by the skin of Our teeth. We always do recover some reason, we have | 3:45:41 | 3:45:46 | |
done it again. How does the Gerrard family feel today? One winner, one | 3:45:46 | 3:45:53 | |
Musa? It was always going to be one sad and one are celebrating. It | 3:45:53 | 3:45:57 | |
happens. I have got mixed emotions at the moment. Obviously I am | 3:45:57 | 3:46:07 | |
delighted to win the Cup for our team but I feel for Anthony. Orwell | 3:46:07 | 3:46:13 | |
you say to him? To it doesn't matter what I say. The whole family | 3:46:13 | 3:46:23 | |
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will be behind him. Thank you very nice words to cut and Anthony. He | 3:46:25 | 3:46:35 | |
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knows how he will field. -- cousin Anthony. There awkward if you | 3:46:37 | 3:46:42 | |
couldn't summon up the energy to move. -- there were quite a few | 3:46:42 | 3:46:52 | |
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false -- quite a few. And Kenny Dalglish will feel it has been too | 3:46:57 | 3:47:06 | |
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long since that anthem has been heard. A nice consoling pat from | 3:47:08 | 3:47:17 | |
Pepe Reina but it won't make Let's hear from the man who thought | 3:47:17 | 3:47:25 | |
he had won it -- Kuyt. It has been an incredible day. Disappointed not | 3:47:25 | 3:47:31 | |
to play for very long. Only 15 minutes. It was 30 seconds before | 3:47:31 | 3:47:36 | |
the end of the game and I thought, this is it. Then the cornet came in | 3:47:36 | 3:47:42 | |
and it ended up as penalties. The team worked really hard. At the end | 3:47:42 | 3:47:47 | |
of the day, I think we deserve this. It is fair to say that Liverpool | 3:47:47 | 3:47:51 | |
four penalties have not been great disease and apart from Steven | 3:47:51 | 3:47:58 | |
Gerrard. When he missed, you must have been worried? Well, I thought, | 3:47:58 | 3:48:02 | |
we have a few more to take and we will get back in the game. And we | 3:48:02 | 3:48:11 | |
did. Her and your feelings when you went up to take your penalty? | 3:48:11 | 3:48:18 | |
knew I had to score otherwise it was over. That is always the case. | 3:48:18 | 3:48:22 | |
And a word about Cardiff, if you would, because they have | 3:48:22 | 3:48:27 | |
contributed to a brilliant final? Brilliant. I have massive respect | 3:48:27 | 3:48:34 | |
for the manager and the team and the supporters. We wanted this | 3:48:34 | 3:48:38 | |
trophy so desperately. At six years, your first medal? It is | 3:48:38 | 3:48:44 | |
unbelievable! This is why I came to Anfield. To get my first one at | 3:48:44 | 3:48:54 | |
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Wembley and hopefully we can get getting his hands on a winners' | 3:48:56 | 3:49:05 | |
medal. You said, Mark, the first one misses at the penalty shoot- | 3:49:05 | 3:49:13 | |
out... It often happens. And the despair of Anthony Gerrard plain to | 3:49:13 | 3:49:18 | |
see. But at the other side of the pitch, Kenny Dalglish with a smile | 3:49:18 | 3:49:27 | |
as wide as the Mersey. And up goes the vanquished team. You can see | 3:49:27 | 3:49:33 | |
how much they put into the game. They can barely get up those steps. | 3:49:33 | 3:49:38 | |
In the extra time, there must have been three, four of them who | 3:49:38 | 3:49:43 | |
couldn't run with cramp. So it has been an amazing performance. Next | 3:49:43 | 3:49:49 | |
weekend, may play West Ham United in the Championship. So they will | 3:49:49 | 3:49:54 | |
need to secure a place. They will have to get back in training before | 3:49:54 | 3:50:04 | |
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that one. Liverpool are beaming ear to ear. Except Craig Bellamy, | 3:50:13 | 3:50:17 | |
perhaps of stocky will have mixed feelings. Some have headed for the | 3:50:17 | 3:50:27 | |
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Welsh hills but plenty are here to cheer on the Welsh team. And | 3:50:28 | 3:50:34 | |
congratulations for the captain, Mark Hudson. Really good to see | 3:50:34 | 3:50:43 | |
them smiling and full of congratulations for their players. | 3:50:43 | 3:50:49 | |
Here's the chairman. The major investor. And I should think that | 3:50:49 | 3:50:53 | |
has only encouraged them to put a bit more in, having seen what they | 3:50:53 | 3:51:03 | |
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have today. You would hope so. come the Victors. Steven Gerrard | 3:51:10 | 3:51:17 | |
leads the team up the steps. Absolutely no better feeling. | 3:51:17 | 3:51:22 | |
nice to see such a big team really make a big play of this cup | 3:51:23 | 3:51:29 | |
competition, right from the very start. They were a strong team and | 3:51:29 | 3:51:34 | |
they have carried on like that right through. Liverpool is a club | 3:51:34 | 3:51:41 | |
that wins trophies. More than many others. And it has been too long | 3:51:41 | 3:51:50 | |
without one. As they said, never mind being in the Premier League. | 3:51:50 | 3:51:57 | |
Are we want to win stuff. And they have done today. He might have | 3:51:57 | 3:52:03 | |
missed his penalty... But his team- mates didn't. Stewart Downing, who | 3:52:03 | 3:52:11 | |
was officially named the Colin man of the match. -- Carling Cup man of | 3:52:11 | 3:52:21 | |
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Steven Gerrard, to be greeted. The 19th major Cup Final at Wembley for | 3:52:34 | 3:52:44 | |
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them. The Cup has the red and white ribbons on it. Ready for Steven | 3:52:46 | 3:52:51 | |
Gerrard to hold aloft. Liverpool have silverware again! Liverpool | 3:52:51 | 3:53:01 | |
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are the winners of the 2012 Carling Liverpool win the 2012 Carling Cup | 3:53:23 | 3:53:29 | |
and the celebrations, you suspect, will go on and on. Steven Gerrard, | 3:53:29 | 3:53:35 | |
getting the plaudits. Andy Carroll enjoying his moment. Kuyt being so | 3:53:35 | 3:53:41 | |
close to being their hero in extra- time. Liverpool are triumphant. And | 3:53:41 | 3:53:47 | |
Johnson nearly scored, of course, in the first few minutes with that | 3:53:47 | 3:53:51 | |
crossbar. But you have to spare a thought for Cardiff. What a | 3:53:51 | 3:53:56 | |
magnificently brave effort it was right to the very end. Until the | 3:53:56 | 3:54:03 | |
penalty shoot-out... That finally did it for them. The new owner, J W | 3:54:03 | 3:54:09 | |
Henry's first trophy as owner of Liverpool Football Club. Well would | 3:54:09 | 3:54:13 | |
be a springboard for further success in future years? We shall | 3:54:13 | 3:54:21 | |
see. -- will that be? It has been a while since Liverpool won a trophy. | 3:54:21 | 3:54:28 | |
Absolutely. Am delighted for Kenny. He has got the team together at the | 3:54:28 | 3:54:38 | |
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football club. On the day, I thought that the game was so great. | 3:54:39 | 3:54:46 | |
We had a division below Liverpool that played, I thought, sensational | 3:54:46 | 3:54:53 | |
football for 90 minutes plus extra time. And brilliant for Kev. -- for | 3:54:53 | 3:55:00 | |
Kenny. He has been brilliant for the club, brie and average player, | 3:55:00 | 3:55:04 | |
brilliant as they manage it. But you have got to feel sorry for | 3:55:04 | 3:55:10 | |
Cardiff. They contributed so much to the game. And a magnificent | 3:55:10 | 3:55:20 | |
final. We talked before the game and said that maybe if Liverpool | 3:55:20 | 3:55:24 | |
been getting right on the day, Cardiff could. Both teams have | 3:55:24 | 3:55:28 | |
contributed to a fantastic final. One of the best I have seen for | 3:55:28 | 3:55:33 | |
some time. We have players going down with cramp, just managing to | 3:55:33 | 3:55:37 | |
stay on the field because of replacements. We saw such | 3:55:37 | 3:55:44 | |
excitement. An absolutely magnificent final! It has been a | 3:55:44 | 3:55:50 | |
while since we have heard this at the end of a game. You will never | 3:55:50 | 3:55:59 | |
walk alone. It was an epic game, it and really was. The only thing I | 3:55:59 | 3:56:02 | |
can say to Cardiff is that I genuinely hope they get promotion | 3:56:02 | 3:56:08 | |
now because they did not deserve to lose today. Good luck to them in | 3:56:08 | 3:56:11 | |
their quest to get to the Premier League, because they deserve to do | 3:56:11 | 3:56:17 | |
that. Cardiff are a credit to themselves, to the club and to | 3:56:17 | 3:56:24 | |
Wales, of course. Let's hear from their manager, Malky Mackay. | 3:56:24 | 3:56:33 | |
Many commiserations. A bad way to lose a Carling Cup Final? Yes. It | 3:56:33 | 3:56:40 | |
was. We had a chance in the last minute of the game. Kenny just | 3:56:40 | 3:56:48 | |
plays it over. I thought, I am so very, very proud of them. So many | 3:56:48 | 3:56:52 | |
misses in the penalty shoot-out. Is that with people being dead on | 3:56:52 | 3:56:57 | |
their feet? I think it was. You saw that. You saw the misses and that | 3:56:57 | 3:57:03 | |
is the way it was going to be. But higher very proud of my team. | 3:57:03 | 3:57:06 | |
some of your players looking disconsolate in tears. Is this your | 3:57:06 | 3:57:12 | |
biggest test as a manager? You lose with dignity and we lost today with | 3:57:12 | 3:57:18 | |
dignity. For some, it is the first time they have been anywhere near | 3:57:18 | 3:57:22 | |
anything like this. There are very young and emotions are running | 3:57:22 | 3:57:30 | |
through them. Some have been through similar things before. | 3:57:30 | 3:57:36 | |
it a comfort that it was an epic game of football? Erm... My first | 3:57:36 | 3:57:41 | |
reaction is no because we were beaten and we wanted to come and | 3:57:41 | 3:57:44 | |
win this debate. But the team and the club have done the Carling Cup | 3:57:44 | 3:57:50 | |
proud this season. We played a top, top team and we have a lot to be | 3:57:50 | 3:57:55 | |
proud of in that group of players. How to lift your players to the | 3:57:55 | 3:57:59 | |
promotion now? I don't think we will have a problem with that now. | 3:57:59 | 3:58:04 | |
Thank you. Such a contrast in emotions between | 3:58:04 | 3:58:11 | |
the two sides. Malky Mackay speaking with such dignity there. | 3:58:11 | 3:58:16 | |
That very brave defeat as the Liverpool players celebrate. That | 3:58:16 | 3:58:20 | |
is the thing. When you have got the cup and you go down and you go down | 3:58:20 | 3:58:24 | |
to your supporters, it is absolutely magnificent. The best | 3:58:24 | 3:58:28 | |
feeling you will add a have. And as we have said before, Liverpool | 3:58:28 | 3:58:32 | |
supporters have supported their team through thick and thin. | 3:58:32 | 3:58:36 | |
Wonderful sets of supporters and they deserve it, they really do. | 3:58:36 | 3:58:39 | |
Would you have thought years ago that Kenny Dalglish would be back | 3:58:39 | 3:58:46 | |
winning trophies as manager of Liverpool? No. He deserves it, he | 3:58:46 | 3:58:50 | |
really does. He is a fantastic person, a great personality. A | 3:58:50 | 3:58:54 | |
great manager. And he thrives on winning things. His desire, his | 3:58:54 | 3:58:59 | |
hunger to go back in and turn the club around. And it has been a long | 3:58:59 | 3:59:08 | |
time for a football club. It now looks as if they are back on track. | 3:59:08 | 3:59:13 | |
This can be the captain is now to push on and move on and be bigger | 3:59:13 | 3:59:17 | |
and more success for and be the Liverpool of all. This could be a | 3:59:17 | 3:59:21 | |
really watershed moment, couldn't it? Because if it had gone the | 3:59:21 | 3:59:27 | |
other way, it could have had that Arsenal affect, and capitulated | 3:59:27 | 3:59:35 | |
them until tipping us? Absolutely. They crave winning trophies. They | 3:59:35 | 3:59:39 | |
expect to win trophies in Anfield. They are that sort of football club. | 3:59:39 | 3:59:44 | |
And it has been a long time. You're absolutely by. This could now be | 3:59:44 | 3:59:50 | |
the first of many. But with more financial backing. Once he gets a | 3:59:50 | 4:00:00 | |
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taste, he once more. He put himself in the eye! -- Brooke himself! | 4:00:01 | 4:00:11 | |
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Congratulations, what a hard way to win a car. It was a long way, | 4:00:18 | 4:00:22 | |
wasn't it? Anyway, the name is on the trophy, that is all that | 4:00:22 | 4:00:27 | |
matters. I thought the boys played particularly well, and Cardiff were | 4:00:27 | 4:00:30 | |
always going to be difficult. The big guy of France did well for them. | 4:00:30 | 4:00:35 | |
At the end of the day, we have got our name on the drover. Dirk Kuyt | 4:00:35 | 4:00:39 | |
came on and scored that goal, so close to being the winning goal, | 4:00:39 | 4:00:42 | |
you must have been going through murder, really. We were always | 4:00:42 | 4:00:47 | |
going to be under pressure. Very good delivery from set plays. They | 4:00:47 | 4:00:51 | |
were never going to lie down, they were always going to come back. | 4:00:51 | 4:00:57 | |
They were tired, but they were a great credit to Cardiff. Not a nice | 4:00:57 | 4:01:01 | |
way to win a car, but we will take it. Anything can happen in | 4:01:02 | 4:01:05 | |
penalties, and virtually everything did, really, an extraordinary | 4:01:05 | 4:01:10 | |
shoot-out. Yeah, but unfortunately it is sad that the boy misted. You | 4:01:10 | 4:01:15 | |
always feel for somebody like that. But I don't know, it has got to be | 4:01:15 | 4:01:20 | |
decided some way. You feel for the person that missed its, even in our | 4:01:20 | 4:01:26 | |
celebrations. 40,000 Liverpool fans absolutely ecstatic. There will be | 4:01:26 | 4:01:36 | |
more than that when we go home! The party scenes continue, and as | 4:01:36 | 4:01:39 | |
Kenny says, I think that party will grow and grow. It is funny about | 4:01:39 | 4:01:44 | |
penalty shoot-outs, isn't it? Whatever you think about them, the | 4:01:44 | 4:01:48 | |
worst way to lose all the best way to win, boy, do they provide | 4:01:48 | 4:01:52 | |
grammar! They are entertainment, but for a player they are an | 4:01:52 | 4:02:00 | |
absolute nightmare. Dirk Kuyt's children, I am reliably informed. | 4:02:00 | 4:02:04 | |
More than likely! He came on and changed the game, didn't he? He had | 4:02:04 | 4:02:11 | |
the courage to go and take a penalty and stick is the way. -- | 4:02:11 | 4:02:19 | |
The people and red are enjoying themselves. For a while during that | 4:02:19 | 4:02:24 | |
she doubt, we thought maybe he would be the hero, Chris. We saw | 4:02:24 | 4:02:29 | |
him doing his homework, telling him that Steven Gerrard generally hits | 4:02:29 | 4:02:36 | |
it to the keeper's right. Unbelievable save. The reaction | 4:02:36 | 4:02:40 | |
with his left arm, he goes down low and throws his left arm out, that | 4:02:40 | 4:02:47 | |
is incredible. As good as you'll see from a penalty. Fantastic. | 4:02:47 | 4:02:53 | |
then the other Gerrard. This is the catalyst for Liverpool to go on and | 4:02:53 | 4:02:56 | |
start winning trophies, the name Gerrard will be important to it. | 4:02:56 | 4:03:01 | |
You think it is Steven Gerrard, but it is Anthony Gerrard that has | 4:03:01 | 4:03:05 | |
helped them to win the first stroke before star ban was the best player, | 4:03:05 | 4:03:15 | |
Skrtel, magnificent right the way through the match. What you notice | 4:03:15 | 4:03:20 | |
is the chasm of difference in emotions between winning and losing. | 4:03:20 | 4:03:26 | |
That is what makes sport what it is. It is, but if you have been in both | 4:03:26 | 4:03:30 | |
positions, you know, you know, you are our there wot Dun there, it is | 4:03:30 | 4:03:36 | |
horrible for Cardiff. -- up their walk down there. To play as well as | 4:03:36 | 4:03:40 | |
they did and come away with nothing is horrific. We can hear from | 4:03:40 | 4:03:47 | |
Stewart Downing. Stuart, League Cup winner, and man-of-the-match. | 4:03:47 | 4:03:51 | |
Will made hard work of it! It was a tough game, we were running on | 4:03:51 | 4:03:57 | |
empty at the end. It is a very good win at the end. Can you tell me how | 4:03:57 | 4:04:02 | |
it felt when they equalised at the end of extra time? I thought we had | 4:04:02 | 4:04:07 | |
won it, but they never gave up. They kept going, it is a cruel way | 4:04:07 | 4:04:12 | |
to lose a game, on penalties, but I thought we were the better team. | 4:04:12 | 4:04:16 | |
Standing on the halfway line watching the shoot-out, Steven | 4:04:16 | 4:04:20 | |
Gerrard Mrs, Charlie Adam missus, what were you thinking? Maybe it | 4:04:20 | 4:04:25 | |
was not going to be our day. Credits to the last, we kept going, | 4:04:25 | 4:04:29 | |
we have got a great goalkeeper in Pepe Reina. We got the job done, | 4:04:30 | 4:04:34 | |
which was good. Dirk Kuyt says it is just about confidence. Were you | 4:04:34 | 4:04:40 | |
confident? I was confident, a bit nervous, but I picked my spot, and | 4:04:40 | 4:04:44 | |
luckily it went in. Unlucky for the last missing theirs, but it does | 4:04:44 | 4:04:48 | |
happen. Liverpool fans will remember that Liverpool won the car, | 4:04:48 | 4:04:53 | |
but a word about Cardiff, they were exceptional. A credit to them, they | 4:04:53 | 4:04:57 | |
have been brilliant for the way through the rounds. We knew it | 4:04:57 | 4:05:01 | |
would be tough today. People expected us to win 3-0, but that | 4:05:01 | 4:05:05 | |
was not the case. They were a bit unlucky at the end. Well played, | 4:05:05 | 4:05:13 | |
thank you very much. You obviously do not decide who is a man of the | 4:05:13 | 4:05:18 | |
match, you said Skrtel, but Downing got it. He has got unbelievable | 4:05:18 | 4:05:23 | |
ability, Downing. He has got tremendous pace, he put in some | 4:05:23 | 4:05:26 | |
great crosses, but I would not have given him man of the match. I hate | 4:05:26 | 4:05:32 | |
to disagree with any money! Go all the way back to Liverpool's first | 4:05:32 | 4:05:37 | |
game, Exeter? He put out a very strong side, that was a signal to | 4:05:37 | 4:05:40 | |
say, we mean business in this competition. They did not really | 4:05:40 | 4:05:45 | |
play well today, Liverpool, not as well as they can do. Right | 4:05:45 | 4:05:50 | |
throughout their team, it is hard to say, as Alan said, Skrtel was, | 4:05:50 | 4:05:55 | |
for me, the pick of the bunch. Taking out, Downey had one or two | 4:05:55 | 4:05:59 | |
crosses, but the others... They worked extremely hard, and they | 4:05:59 | 4:06:06 | |
never gave up. If the two best players on the day was Ben Turner | 4:06:06 | 4:06:13 | |
and Skrtel. Grit, determination and the defenders. Cardiff took the | 4:06:13 | 4:06:23 | |
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foot, left foot, control, pokes through. A cool finish from Mason. | 4:06:28 | 4:06:33 | |
That is Skrtel's bad positioning. He looks around to see where | 4:06:33 | 4:06:37 | |
everybody is. It is a great pass, tremendous composure. Not a bad | 4:06:37 | 4:06:43 | |
finish either. And up until then, they had a chance 15 minutes before | 4:06:43 | 4:06:47 | |
that, but they could not get hold of the ball and was starting to | 4:06:47 | 4:06:52 | |
fear the worst. The goal gave them greater confidence. It took a while | 4:06:52 | 4:06:56 | |
for Liverpool to get an equaliser, a scrambling effort when it came | 4:06:56 | 4:07:00 | |
from the corner. It was a decent ball, Andy Carroll did well to get | 4:07:00 | 4:07:06 | |
on the end of it, Suarez was there with the flick. It falls to Skrtel, | 4:07:06 | 4:07:10 | |
how many times? Through the keeper's legs again. Once Liverpool | 4:07:10 | 4:07:15 | |
got that goal, you felt they would go on to win it, maybe 2-1, 3-1, | 4:07:15 | 4:07:21 | |
and it never happened. Cardiff came right back into it, didn't they? | 4:07:21 | 4:07:25 | |
soon as Liverpool levelled, you thought it was the end of the game. | 4:07:25 | 4:07:29 | |
Malky Mackay mentioned it, Chris, but there was one moment where they | 4:07:29 | 4:07:33 | |
could have pinched it, Cardiff, writes towards the end. A terrific | 4:07:33 | 4:07:37 | |
opportunity for Kenny Miller. the ball has gone to court to | 4:07:37 | 4:07:42 | |
anyone in that position, you want to forget to Kenny Miller. -- he's | 4:07:42 | 4:07:49 | |
going to fall. He snatches at it. It is a magnificent first touch, | 4:07:49 | 4:07:54 | |
sensational. The turn and the swivel. He will have got to give | 4:07:54 | 4:07:59 | |
Andy Carroll credit. He just does enough. Amazing piece of defending, | 4:07:59 | 4:08:03 | |
he throws himself at it. He did not have a great day. He put Kenny | 4:08:04 | 4:08:09 | |
Miller off at the last minute. Extra-time, second half of extra- | 4:08:09 | 4:08:13 | |
time, Dirk Kuyt came on as a substitute. A bit of energy. A bit | 4:08:13 | 4:08:18 | |
of pace, a bit of energy. This time the Cardiff guys are virtually dead | 4:08:18 | 4:08:25 | |
on their legs. Not your archetypal 12. He was a poor effort to begin | 4:08:25 | 4:08:30 | |
with, but as Kenny said, the name is on the trophy. You think that | 4:08:30 | 4:08:38 | |
now there is absolutely no way back for Cardiff, no way back. Unreal. | 4:08:38 | 4:08:43 | |
They are on their knees, they cannot come back. And yet just | 4:08:43 | 4:08:47 | |
before they scored, they had one of the line, which was incredible, | 4:08:47 | 4:08:54 | |
wasn't it?! Talking about Skrtel, before Cardiff got the equaliser, | 4:08:54 | 4:08:58 | |
Skrtel had some headers in important positions, and we were | 4:08:59 | 4:09:03 | |
saying, magnificent defensive display. I think we can see that | 4:09:03 | 4:09:09 | |
clearance of the line that you mentioned. When Kuyt gets it off | 4:09:09 | 4:09:14 | |
the line, even though they get another corner... He is thinking, I | 4:09:14 | 4:09:19 | |
am going to get the headlines tomorrow! For 10 minutes, man-of- | 4:09:19 | 4:09:26 | |
the-match. Unbelievable. And then obviously it goes for a corner, and | 4:09:26 | 4:09:31 | |
it is in the back of the net. marking Ben Turner, isn't he? | 4:09:31 | 4:09:36 | |
Absolutely. If one man deserved the goal, it was this guy. Right from | 4:09:36 | 4:09:42 | |
the start, he was gigantic at the back. He was huge and put in a | 4:09:42 | 4:09:52 | |
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Turner. He worked his socks off to get back to fitness. A nicer fella | 4:09:54 | 4:09:59 | |
you will never meet. He is a 100% true professional, I was delighted | 4:09:59 | 4:10:02 | |
that he was fit and got the equaliser. Terrific game, | 4:10:02 | 4:10:07 | |
terrifically exciting. The Premier League was not bad either, you had | 4:10:07 | 4:10:17 | |
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better catch Match of the Day 2 If you missed any of the Carling | 4:10:33 | 4:10:39 | |
Cup final, you can see highlights on BBC One tonight at 11:05pm. And | 4:10:39 | 4:10:42 | |
Cardiff live again next week if they have got anything left to give | 4:10:42 | 4:10:49 | |
against West Ham on Sunday afternoon on BBC One from 12:30pm. | 4:10:49 | 4:10:54 | |
Remarkable stuff, and what does this mean for Liverpool? Again, | 4:10:54 | 4:10:58 | |
like Alan says, if they had been beaten today, you would worry about | 4:10:58 | 4:11:02 | |
them, but they are still in the FA Cup, they have still got a great | 4:11:02 | 4:11:06 | |
chance of getting a 4th. It does not matter what Stevens says, he is | 4:11:06 | 4:11:11 | |
talking about trophies, but I still think that Liverpool and Thorpe is | 4:11:11 | 4:11:16 | |
a priority. They have obviously got a much better chance having won. | 4:11:16 | 4:11:21 | |
have not got a long left, but a big game for you on Wednesday, your | 4:11:21 | 4:11:25 | |
first as Wales manager, bound to be a poignant occasion. It is all | 4:11:25 | 4:11:29 | |
about Gary Speed, to be honest. It will be difficult for the players. | 4:11:29 | 4:11:33 | |
We are hoping for a good turnout, his family will be there. It is | 4:11:33 | 4:11:37 | |
just about Gary Speed. I will be there but just in the background. A | 4:11:37 | 4:11:43 | |
wonderful person, we are there to remember him and celebrate. Very | 4:11:43 | 4:11:46 | |
much so, and looking further ahead as manager of Wales, you seem to | 4:11:46 | 4:11:51 | |
have a good batch of players at the moment. How far you think you can | 4:11:51 | 4:11:55 | |
go? Well, importantly, a lot of our players are playing in the Premier | 4:11:55 | 4:12:00 | |
League, which is always a big help. Welsh football is on the rise, | 4:12:00 | 4:12:04 | |
Cardiff we saw there, so it is an exciting time, and I just want to | 4:12:04 | 4:12:09 | |
take it forward from where Gary left off. We certainly we should do | 4:12:09 | 4:12:13 | |
best. Alan, your thoughts and a terrific game. Oh, magnificent, I'm | 4:12:13 | 4:12:17 | |
just so pleased that we were here to witness it, an incredible | 4:12:17 | 4:12:20 | |
occasion, great football match. It is a shame Cardiff had to be on the | 4:12:20 | 4:12:24 | |
losing end. I wish them well in their promotion push. They deserve | 4:12:24 | 4:12:28 | |
something from this season, because Malky Mackay has done a magnificent | 4:12:28 | 4:12:32 | |
job. A pleasure and a privilege to be here, delighted Liverpool and | 4:12:32 | 4:12:37 |