"- I’m sure 99 per cent of Liverpool fans think they’re now through, said Jose Mourinho, using his mind games to try to shift the pressure on to us. /.../

- Jose is wrong, said Phil Thompson. A hundred per cent of Liverpool fans think they’re now through.

He was reminding Mourinho he was right to be extremely worried about what the fans had in store for him a week later. Nothing Jose and his players had experienced previously in football would prepare them for this.

In fact, nothing I had experienced compared to the evening of 3 May 2005.

As Thommo had warned, the fans really had turned up believing we were going to win. Now we felt it too, and the Chelsea players couldn’t avoid being affected by the surge of absolute conviction coming from the stands. They’d later admit they’d never known an atmosphere like it. Despite the hype beforehand about Anfield’s terrifying sounds, playing in those conditions was tough for them."

- Jamie Carragher i sin självbiografi, om andra semifinalsmatchen mot Chelsea i CL -05