Top - me and Lucy
Second - Steven Gerrard's penalty
Third - the pitch
Bottom - outside Le Stade Velodrome
After work I met up with Rachel. We went to hers and ate together, then Lucy came round and we walked to La Joliette metro together. Rachel went to meet Louise at Vieux Port. Me and Lucy took the metro to Le Stade Velodrome. It was busy. Everyone was going to the match. We didn't have to queue to get in because they were searching everyone and it was separate for men and women and the women were few and far between so we got through really quickly. There was a clever machine which scanned our ticket to let us through and then we went to our seats. It was really impressive to look down on the pitch and to see all the fans all around the stadium. We were sat with the OM supporters, there didn't seem to be many Liverpool fans there, there was a bit of red opposite us but not as many fans as we'd expected. We were quite far back but we could see the whole pitch and everything that was going on. It was strange, if you missed something there was no replay like there is on sky sports, also, there was no commentary (apart from the man next to us). Liverpool seemed to start off better with more possession and then obviously they got the penalty and scored, and then scored again and OM seemed to adope a defeated attitude. Liverpool enjoyed lots of possession but then it changed. OM began to play and me and Lucy both expected OM to score before half time but they didn't. OM played quite dirtily and the supporters were not impressed that they were losing. Even though OM now had more possession that weren't playing very well. In the second half they had most of the possession but it was Liverpool who kept scoring. Towards the 70 minute mark lots of OM supporters began to leave. They knew they had lost, that they were out of the champions league. We stayed until the end of course and then got the metro (which was packed, we had to queue for an age just to get through the ticket barriers) back to La Joliette. It was good the way they kept the OM and Liverpool supporters separately. OM supporters used one metro station and the Liverpool supporters used another one. This was because Liverpool supporters were on one side of the stadium near to one metro supporters and OM supporters were on the otherside near to the next metro stop. The atmosphere in the stadium was amazing, the fans were singing from one side of the stadium to the other and held up coloured paper to spell out 'droit au but' - OM's caption thing. Sky sports may provide replays and a commentary but you don't get the atmosphere! Yes, so, it was amazing. Amazing, amazing, amazing.
