Were Liverpool ever really destined to win No.6?

Football FanCast
columnist Jerome Johnstone is one unhappy Red tonight and wonders
whether the club were destined not to win it tonight.

I don't think sick would be the best way to describe the way
I am feeling tonight, distraught hurt and let down. I was one of many Liverpool
fans who stood on the Kop with scarf in hand, waiting for that final whistle
which should have been blown minutes before when Riise struck and turned the
tie on its head.

I was dumbstruck, shocked and felt that was it, game over.
This was not because I didn't feel we could go to Stamford Bridge and win,
anything is possible but I just felt that after 20 odd years of watching
football, you just know when fate deals its hand and I believe that was ours.

I couldn't get a ticket for the second leg, I had to watch
it closer to home and be around my own people. The truth of the matter is did
we actually expect a happy ending? So much turmoil and unrest has cost us dear
and while at times the Champions League has been that one glimmer of hope among
the backdrop of media intrusion and boardroom ructions. It hasn't happened and
we go into work tomorrow with empty hearts why you hoped we would all have had
sore heads.

Where did it go wrong tonight? In truth was this tie lost in
the first leg? What will be the fallout tomorrow? Were we destined not to win
the competition this season?

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