They get involved in the game a lot more and create a much better atmosphere.”Fellow defender Steve Finnan said he hoped that winning the Champions’ League would be enough to see Liverpool in the competition next season even though they might finish outside the top four in the Premiership.”We have knocked out some big teams to get here and the feeling is that we can go one more and win the trophy,” he said.Djimi Traor?meanwhile, said Liverpool had revelled in being underdogs.. “Chelsea have bought great players and have an excellent manager, but you can’t buy fans like ours,” he said. “We’ve got a working-class support while the majority of fans at the game last week (first leg at Stamford Bridge) are probably a bit more well-to-do.”In my opinion, clubs which have that traditional core of working-class fans are always going to be more passionate about football. “I controlled the ball, hit it quite well and thought it was going in, but it came off Carragher’s thigh,” Gudjohnsen said. He was just about everywhere.” The Liverpool defender deflected away Gudjohnsen’s goal-bound shot in the sixth minute of injury-time. I saw it clearly.”Trials are under way to provide goal-line technology.

Two months ago Fifa, the governing body of world football, agreed to experiment with a ball containing a microchip. The idea will be implemented at September’s under-17 World Championships in which the referee will be alerted by a bleeper-style system when the ball crosses the line, rather than a video replay.The Football Association has already confirmed it would welcome such technology following incidents such as Pedro Mendes’s 50-yard strike for Tottenham Hotspur against Manchester United.The Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said he supported the use of technology. “I think it should be brought in for whether it is the ball over the line or a foul just inside the box,” he said. “These are the decisions that lose games, lose people’s jobs. I don’t think it would slow the game down because it does not happen that often.”The Chelsea players paid tribute to Carragher, the man of the match, with Terry calling him “magnificent” while Gudjohnsen added: “Carragher cloned himself. It was a very hard situation and in that kind of situation a person has only a few hundredths of a second to react.

“William Gallas was in the way of the ball from where the linesman was but he gave it,” he said. “If you’re not sure, then don’t give a goal.”Eidur Gudjohnsen was equally critical: “I thought the official was in a very bad position to judge it. It was a brave decision – to give a goal without being sure.”The goalkeeper, Petr Cech, who possibly should have been sent off for upending Milan Baros in the build-up, added: “The linesman was standing in such a position that he simply could not see the ball as Gallas blocked it with his body. I asked him (the assistant referee) how he could be so sure.”Cech said the incident provided further evidence that video technology was needed – although even footage from four different camera angles proved inconclusive.Nevertheless Slysko, part of the three-strong Slovakian team of officials, said he was adequately positioned adding: “My first feeling, and which I remain convinced of, is that it was a goal. I still love football, that’s the main thing, and it’s difficult to walk away from that.”That plays a major part in my decision. But there could be a lot of negative things coming from the boss as well, so we’ll see.”.

But you want to have a very good team that is challenging for trophies next season,” Bergkamp said.”I want to listen to what he has to say and what he thinks about my position. Dennis Bergkamp has confirmed he will retire from football at the end of this season if he is not offered a final one-year contract by Arsenal. Depending on that, I want to make my decision.”I would like to know what kind of team will still be here next year – is it going to be a much younger team for the future?”I’m not going to be part of that future, of course, in three or four years’ time. As a transfer undertaking it would rate as the most protracted, not to mention expensive, that Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea have ever undertaken and the sheer size of the price they would be forced to pay might just discourage Mourinho.He is acutely aware that all that he hope to achieve with Chelsea could be undermined if the club’s capacity for buying success is allowed to run away with itself.