Talk:Liverpool F.C. in international football

Europa League is missing
Liverpool had a semi-final run in the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League. It's not found here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.173.243.143 (talk) 03:28, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Fact checking
"from 1964 to 1985, Liverpool qualified for the European Cup on eight occasions by winning the former Football League First Division, and qualified for the UEFA Cup and Cup Winners Cup by winning the FA Cup and Football League Cup".

The areas in bold above need to be double checked for accuracy. this seems to be an excellent online resource. Jprw (talk) 09:14, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

The first two paras
I'm thinking of changing

Liverpool Football Club is an English professional football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside which has regularly and successfully taken part in European competitions since 1964. Qualification for English football clubs to European competitions is determined by teams' domestic league and cup performances; from 1964 to 1985, Liverpool qualified for the European Cup on eight occasions by winning the former Football League First Division, and qualified for the UEFA Cup and Cup Winners Cup by winning the FA Cup and Football League Cup.

Liverpool's first participation in European competition was in the 1964–65 European Cup against KR Reykjavik of Iceland. Liverpool competed in Europe for 21 consecutive seasons until the 1985 European Cup final, the occasion of the Heysel Stadium disaster, following which all English clubs were banned from UEFA competitions for six seasons. Since being reaccepted in 1992, Liverpool has qualified for either the Champions League or the UEFA Cup in most seasons to date.

to

Liverpool Football Club is an English professional football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside which has regularly and successfully taken part in European football competitions since 1964, winning a total of ten European trophies.

Liverpool's first participation in European competition was in the 1964–65 European Cup against KR Reykjavik of Iceland. Liverpool competed in Europe for 21 consecutive seasons until the 1985 European Cup final, the occasion of the Heysel Stadium disaster, following which all English clubs were banned from UEFA competitions for six seasons. Since being reaccepted in 1992, Liverpool has qualified for either the Champions League or the UEFA Cup in most seasons to date.

Any thoughts?

Jprw (talk) 10:05, 13 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes you do realise that the article is currently on hold at GA, and that the reviewer suggested the lead that is currently there. For this reason I would wait to see what he has to say on the matter. NapHit (talk) 10:11, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes sure, apologies if I jumped the gun. I do think however that the changes I made addressed a lot of issues, mainly to do with repetition and excessive detail in the lead. The UEFA Cup photo semed to work well too. Buy you're right let's see what the reviewer says. Jprw (talk) 12:49, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

I've just noticed that the suggested lead given by the reviewer above DOES NOT correspond to what is currently in the article. I would go with installing the reviewer's, which similarly deals with a lot of the repetition problems as my rewrite, but I would cut the last sentence as it is stats that is repeated in the stats-like appendix at the end. Jprw (talk) 13:03, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Not a lot seems to be happening at all, so I'm going to revert to my edit in the lead which seems to be at least an improvement to work from. Jprw (talk) 09:22, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Newly worded, shorter and tighter lead
This is what we now have (pictures of cups not shown):

Liverpool Football Club are an English professional football club which have regularly taken part in European competitions since 1964, winning a total of ten trophies, including five European Cups—the most successful haul of trophies of any British club.

Liverpool's first appearance in European club football was in the 1964–65 European Cup, and they went on to compete in Europe for 21 consecutive seasons, until the 1985 European Cup final, the occasion of the Heysel Stadium disaster, following which all English clubs were banned from UEFA competitions for six seasons. Since being reaccepted in 1992, Liverpool qualified for either the Champions League or the UEFA Cup nearly every season up to 2010.

Liverpool have won the the European Cup five times, a British record, most recently in the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final. As a result of that victory, Liverpool won the European Champion Clubs' Cup outright and were awarded a multiple winner badge. Only Real Madrid and A.C. Milan have won the competition on more occasions. Liverpool have also won the UEFA Cup (now called the Europa League) three times, a record in Europe which they share with Juventus and Internazionale.

I believe that in order for the rest of the article to get up to GA status, it needs to be copy edited and reworked as boldly as this—to cut out the numerous examples of language that are non-encyclopaedic; to reduce the bloated feel of much of the language; and to deal with examples of repetition. Jprw (talk) 09:42, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I disagree the lead that the reviewer suggested was fine seeing as he is reviewing the article and has done a great job so far his lead should be used. Plus the way you have used the images makes the lead look awful in my opinion. On this basis I'm going to revert back to the reviewer's lead as it is more comprehensive than yours. NapHit (talk) 14:28, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

The lead that the reviewer suggested was a massive improvement on what was there before, but it was a provisional first stab. What I and he then did was to improve it further—it still contained repetition and too much detail for the lead. The fact that the reviewer made further cuts to my reduced lead would I have thought been a tacit acknowledgement from the reviewer that the changes I made were a move in the right direction. The addition of the image of the UEFA cup was also a clear improvement (though I'm beginning to have doubts about where it should go exactly, maybe next to the description of their win in Dortmund. I'm therefore going to revert it back, putting the cups (for the time being) 100px size and both on the right Jprw (talk) 16:27, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The image was not an improvement it made the lead look clunky and awful. It's not repetition, the lead is supposed to summarise the whole article see WP:LEAD. Therefore it should include aspects of all sections, by this notion if a para about the records is not included then it fails this criteria. Plus there should not be a one sentence paragraph in the lead. The lead is supposed to summarise the article not introduce it at the moment it just introduces it that's way I think the reviewer's lead was much better as it conforms to the MOS on leads. Your edits were in violation of some of the MOS see WP:MOS and Manual_of_Style_(layout). Images should not be stacked and the two images now in use are too small to be seen. It was better with the one image in the lead and one in the main text. I'm not going to revert the lead back as it will just result in an edit war, I'm going to message the GA reviewer to get his opinion as at the moment with reverting and re-reverting the article is never going to get to GA. Hopefully the three of us can reach a consensus in this regard. NapHit (talk) 16:58, 28 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I thought the changes introduced to the lead by Jprw earlier today might have consensus so I confined myself to removing repetition and general copyediting. I think there should be only one image in the lead section so I would prefer to put the UEFA Cup photo in the main text where it is appropriate and can easily fit: best place is next to the 2001 win (I would prefer the 1973 win but that will cause stacking).
 * NapHit is right that the lead must summarise the whole article and, in my view, should outline the scope. Therefore, I think it should include mention of the main records and, given that the structure is based on management terms, it should also say something about those managers who won trophies.  I've been working on it again to try and combine the best aspects of both your versions but I would point out that more content will be necessary because the article should be expanded to improve its coverage, per the latest review.  --Mykleavens (talk) 20:56, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks to you both, I agree that it's all about striking a balance now and I apologise if I went too far in my edit. I now look forward to trying to optimise the lead according to WP:LEAD, and, of course, with a view to achiving GA. I also fully agree about the issue with the images and stacking as well, I actually wasn't aware of this. Jprw (talk) 06:31, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

More tidying up
I've just had another go at tidying up the article; see   and. There still seemed to be quite a bit of non-encyclopaedic language, irrelevance, and repetition, and a couple of important bits missing. At this stage I'm worried about the following sentence:

'''The final, at Rome's Stadio Olimpico, was in fact an away match against A.S. Roma, and as they were playing in Roma's home ground, they had to take chances as it was unlikely Roma would not score. The tactics worked: Liverpool went ahead in the 13th minute when Phil Neal scored, but Roma equalised towards the end of the first half.'''

Is this source reliable? the wording/tone also seem to be questionable. Jprw (talk) 12:11, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * LFC History is an extremely reliable source, the stats are always updated regularly, plus the owners of the site are releasing a book very soon which I think verifies that the site is reliable. NapHit (talk)

I'm just not 100% sure that it meets WP:RS criteria, it looks like some kind of a fansite. Also, I wonder if we can use this image somewhere. Jprw (talk) 17:15, 5 June 2011 (UTC)


 * It is definitely 100% its not a fansite its the most comprehensive site related to Liverpool and there info has been used on the official site so I think that indicates how reliable the site is. The image cant be used as its not free use, the fair use rationale on the image page specifies that it can only be used on the article it is relevant to. NapHit (talk) 23:59, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for clearing that up. I wonder if we could contact that site to try and get them to donate WP some photos, especially of Liverpool team captains lifting a E trophy? Jprw (talk) 08:21, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Ye go for it, I'm sure they'd be willing to submit a few photos NapHit (talk) 06:31, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I shall :) Jprw (talk) 10:32, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Images, continued
I've written to the website; in the meantime, this image from flickr seems to be usable. Jprw (talk) 14:38, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm not sure it says all rights reserved at the bottom which normally means it cant be used. Try uploading it to the commons using the flickr upload bot if it won't upload it, we won't be able to use it unfortunately, which is a shame as its a great image. NapHit (talk) 14:42, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Good idea, hopefully it will work as there are tonnes of them... Jprw (talk) 14:49, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

It's complicated! Hopefully it will be possible to get a couple of images but it may take some time. Jprw (talk) 16:40, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Emlyn Hughes
Hughes isn't mentioned anywhere in the article, which seems wrong as he lifted consecutive European cups as Liverpool captain in 1977 and 1978, and possibly the UEFA Cup in 76 as well. Jprw (talk) 16:39, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Background to 84 final
Under new manager Joe Fagan, Liverpool reached their fourth European Cup final in 1984, after first- and second-round victories over Danish champions Odense BK and Spanish champions Athletico Madrid, respectively, a quarter-final 5-0 aggregate victory over Benfica (managed by Sven Goran Eriksson), and a highly physical 3-1 semi-final encounter against Dinamo Bucharest, which Liverpool won 3-1 on aggregate. In his 2009 autobiography Ian Rush wrote, "our games against Dinamo were the most brutal of my entire career".

This keeps getting removed and I'm not sure why. It looks like necessary background information to 1984 final, with a salient ref included. The games in the run up to the final are important and need mentioning. Jprw (talk) 16:47, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Although on second thoughts this looks better:

and a highly physical 3-1 semi-final tie against Dinamo Bucharest, which Liverpool won 3-1 on aggregate, and which Ian Rush described as "the most brutal" games of his career. Jprw (talk) 16:51, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
 * We can't mention all of the games in the run up to the final, the article would be too long, and as there were no notable matches in the run up to the 1984 final there is no need to include them. Quite frankly, the bit about Ian Rush is most definitely not needed so what if he considered it the most brutal game of his career, that has no relevance in article about Liverpool in Europe. Why not include what Thompson, Hughes, Yeats etc through was their most brutal game or favourite game, why Rush? That sort of info belongs in the player's article not this one. NapHit (talk) 18:48, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

"There were no notable matches in the run up to the 1984 final"

This is simply not true. The Benfica and Bucharest games, at least, deserve a mention. Also, the games leading up to other European finals are documented in the article; hence by not including the 84 run up games the article is inconsistent. You may be right about the inadvisability of singling out the Rush quote, although both Hansen and Dalglish mention the ferocity of the tie in their bios so maybe a general description is warranted. I’m also wondering if this could be included somewhere, it looks like a great ref.

Please note that all these changes are with a view to further improving the article and I welcome the chance to discuss them. Rgds, Jprw (talk) 06:49, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Fair enough I'll have a look at my books and try and pick out some notable tidbits about the run-up, I'm fairly sure there was an infamous incident with Souness who broke one of the Bucharest's players jaw, which could be included. Instead of the Rush quote I'll try nd find one from Fagan, or from all the team which corroborate what Rush said. NapHit (talk) 12:24, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

The semi-final against Bucharest and the threats and abuse suffered and endured by Souness in the second leg ("the backs of his socks were in ribbons") are covered in detail here. Souness had broken the jaw of the Romanian player Movila in the first leg. Alan Kennedy also documents it in his book, Kennedy's Way. See here. Rgds Jprw (talk) 16:36, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Photos
I have rearranged the photos of the cups to more logical places in the article. Jprw (talk) 04:56, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid the way you rearranged the photos is against policy, you can't stack photos. The photo of the trophy in the museum is fine in the lead, its more relevant to the article than the other one. Please stop removing the European competition section, this was requested in the recent Peer review by an experienced editor. It is for people who are unaware of all the different competitions UEFA has had. The goal is to get the article to FA, this section will be needed, as many people that read the article will not follow football, and will be baffled by all the competitions. This section helps them understand the different competitions. NapHit (talk) 15:21, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

The article is going backwards: the section outlining all the competitions is lengthy and inappropriate. A see also section with the appropriate link gets round the problem perfectly; a footnote may be another solution. The image in the lead is terrible -- out of focus, not even centred. The best possible image of the trophy should be in the lead and your image relegated later on to, say, the Istanbul section until a better image of the Istanbul trophy is found. These are logical and sensible suggestions. You seem to think that you own the article and resist / immediately undo the helpful edits of other editors for taking the article forward. Jprw (talk) 15:37, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Personally, I believe that you think you own the article considering your edits. I keep telling you that the competitions section was recommended at the recent PR, because you obviously haven't read it. If a respected editor such as Ruhrfisch suggests the section is needed then it should be implemented. A see also does not solve the problem perfectly, the problem is still there. The problem being that readers unaware of European football will be confused by the different competitions. Therefore, a section outlining them is necessary, a see also section means they have to trawl through another page to find the information when it can be provided briefly at the start. Its not my image by the way, its a random one from flickr, but its more relevant to the article that's why it should be in the lead, as it is the trophy they won permanently, as opposed to a random one. Plus moving it to the relevant section doesn't solve anything as then there are three images of the trophy in the article, when others should be used. The article is not going backwards at all, I have experience getting articles to FA standard and this article is heading there. I don't what to start mud-slinging but to say I am stopping editors from taking the article forward is not the case. If an edit improves the article I'm gine with that, but removing a section tat was requested in a peer review is not taking the article forward, so perhaps you should take a look at yourself before accusing others first. NapHit (talk) 15:50, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Out of interest how is the article unbalanced? As regards needing to be rewritten, I've recently requested a copyedit with regards to FAC so once that is done it should be fine. I personally think your doing the reassessment to make a POINT, which shouldn't be done. But I'm sure the GA community will find the article is up to scratch. NapHit (talk) 15:53, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

1) I'm trying to get permission for this image from Flicker. As a thumbnail image next to the Istanbul para, I think it would work well.
 * I agree this image would be useful. NapHit (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

2) Re: the lengthy detour to describe the history of UEFA footballing comps, it just to me looks bizarre and wrong. That is surely why we have things like internal refs, "See also" sections, and footnotes. An opinion from another editor is perhaps needed.
 * It is definitely needed the more I think about it. For me and you who know about the intricacies of European football its not necessary, but for the casual reader with no knowledge it is needed as they won't understand the competitions. See also sections are in my opinion a waste of time. As the topic is about European competition it makes sense to explain the different European competitions to the reader as its relevant to the article. Especially since some of them, have changed their name recently. Getting the opinion of other reviewers is what peer reviews are for, and seeing as it was suggested I'm going to put it back in. NapHit (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

3) The article is unbalanced in terms of there being no logical reason for certain sections having greater coverage than others.
 * Well, it would help if you mentioned what sections these are, so I can see if they need improving. NapHit (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

4) Re: ownership, you have undone on a number of occasions work I have done to improve the text / wording with no discussion or (usually) for very flimsy reasons. If I was in your position, I would welcome another editor wanting to take the article forward; you do seem to see this as a "solo project" and input from other editors as akin to "interference". At the same time, the enormous amount of work that you have put into the article is of course commendable. Jprw (talk) 05:34, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Well you've undone work I've done, with regards to the European competition, so I think we're both to blame here. I'll admit I have not been very co-operative, but that's because I don't have experience working with another editor improving an article, I tend to do them by myself. Obviously, we both want the article to improve and get to FA, so I think we need to find a way to work together to achieve this. NapHit (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Great, clearly a spirit of cooperation is the best way to take the article forward. At the moment I'm concerned about the extended description of the Torres signing; it seems to smack of recentism, as well as being somewhat off-topic. Re: the images, why don't we experiment with a few options before deciding on the best layout. I didn't realize about the multiple-winner badge being non-free use, sorry about that. Let's also get some input from another editor re: the extended background description of the Euro comps, it still to me looks decidedly odd. Also, isn’t it repetitious of information already included in the lead? Jprw (talk) 14:02, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Another (slight) criticism I have is that the Ponting book is overused. Unfortunately I'm not in the UK at the moment, and so can't get to a library where I could do some spadework to rectify an issue like this. Jprw (talk) 14:13, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep, I agree. Hmm, I see your point, but the GA reviewer said he wanted to see info like this in the article, although to be fair Benitez did moan a lot about money to buy players after losing the final, so in that regard its relevant. Ye experimenting with options is good for me, just make sure the images are free use otherwise when the article goes to FA, we'll be pulled up on this. I agree the opinion of another editor would help, ideally one who is not familiar with football, to see if the section serves its intended purpose. Regarding the lead, the job of the lead is to summarise the content of the article, so in that regard it is fine. But another opinion would help. Well, seeing as the book has the same name as the article I was bound to use it more than the other books I have, but I'll try and use a few more of my other books for refs. NapHit (talk) 15:05, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Looks like a trip to the library might be called for :) Jprw (talk) 16:20, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

GOCE copyedit October 2011
Hi

During the copyedit a few things came to light that may need attention:


 * Return to Europe (1991–2004)

(Paragraph 4)
 * "Having finished fourth in the 1999–2000 FA Premier League, Liverpool qualified for the 2000–01 UEFA Cup and won the competition for a record-equalling third time. The season was the club's most successful since the 1980s as, domestically, Liverpool won both the FA Cup and the League Cup to claim a cup treble." - the sentences implies that the treble was domestic (maybe also link to Treble (association football) ?). Perhaps reword to "The season was the club's most successful since the 1980s as Liverpool won a cup treble with the UEFA Cup, the FA Cup and the League Cup." There is also the last sentence, where it tells of Liverpool wining the Cup winners' cup - surely this is a quadruple? Alternatively the words "Continental treble" could be used?


 * Benítez years (2004–10)
 * (para 2) "Trailing 3–0 at half-time, ..." The para graph starts without saying which match this is in. If it refers to the last sentence of the previous para (AC Milan) then they need tying together.


 * General
 * Scores - sometimes the scores are written 0-1 and others are 1-0. I do not know what the recommended way of writing them is, but it did not make sense to have them in contradicting styles. One Liverpool loss was written "Liverpool blah blah beaten by Another club 0-1" while others followed the narrative "Liverpool blah blah lost Another club 1-0". I would suggest writing them either all from the perspective of Liverpool, where Liverpool's score is always the left-hand one, or following the narrative, where the first mentioned team is the left-hand score.

Good luck with the FA :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 12:32, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Winter quote
The Winter quote looks like an excellent addition to capture the historic nature of the match, yet it has been removed twice. It is difficult to understand this, especially given that less important descriptions such as The performance of Gary McAllister, whose free-kick resulted in the winning goal, was praised as "outstanding" by Trevor Brooking. seem to be allowed. Jprw (talk) 07:19, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * The difference between the two is that the quote about McAllister is not POV as he was the man of the match in the final, whereas this is Winter's own personal opinion, what makes his opinion so important above others? Its not encyclopaedic neither is the inclusion of the ref which refers to the match as the miracle of Istanbul, the article is supposed to have a neutral tone, inclusion of stuff like this does give a neutral tone. Also why did you remove the bit about the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup, this is relevant as Liverpool qualify for the competition through the Champions League and are Europe's representatives in the competition so by that token it is relevant, it would help if you discussed these things before jumping in carte blanche and making changes, ignoring the fact that there is an ongoing peer review which is aiming to improve the article. NapHit (talk) 11:06, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

There seem to be three main points that need to be addressed:


 * The problem is that as it stands the very dry and matter-of-fact description of the 2005 final (it didn't even have an internal ref to the WP article on it, by the way) doesn't convey that this was, undoubtedly, the most extraordinary event in Liverpool's participation in European competition (if not the club's history), as well as being one of the truly extraordinary European nights. There is nothing wrong with trying to give the reader a taste of that by using e.g. the Winter quote (which is one of many that can be found in the literature, though I opted to use his because he may well be the most pre-eminent football writer covering the sport in the UK today), or referring to the event as the "miracle of Istanbul" (which the game is commonly called by all manner of media). I don't think this would compromise "neutrality" at all, but rather would give the reader more insight into the event.
 * I agree it was an extrordinary match, but wikipedia is an encyclopedia it has to maintain neutrality, and your claim that it is "the most extraordinary event in Liverpool's participation in European competition (if not the club's history)" is your opinion it can't be claimed as fact as other people will view other finals as more important, the 1977 or 1984 finals for instance its a matter of opinion not fact. Thinking about I think there is a way to get the refs in the article without it sounding too POV, and we have to remember not to focus too much on this one match, as its undue weight, I'll include them now and you tell me what you think. NapHit (talk) 12:28, 22 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Also why did you remove the bit about the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup. Because the article is called Liverpool F.C. in European football. And it's not a "bit" – you even go on to say how many shots they had on target in the final!
 * Yes and I explained why that final is relevant above they are representing Europe in that competition, they qualified for it through European competition, it is relevant, editors asked for this to be included at the recent FAC, so I think consensus incurs that it should be included. NapHit (talk) 12:28, 22 December 2011 (UTC)


 * it would help if you discussed these things before jumping in carte blanche and making changes, ignoring the fact that there is an ongoing peer review which is aiming to improve the article. I believe that I am making obvious improvements, which will help the article gain FA status: the references I want to include are excellent, and the material that I am trying to remove / pare down is quite clearly irrelevant.
 * You can't make sweeping statements like "the material that I am trying to remove / pare down is quite clearly irrelevant" when other editors have requested this information be included. Granted some of the edits you've made have improved the article, but you can't move parts of the article that we're requested by other editors without discussion. NapHit (talk) 12:28, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Regards, Jprw (talk) 12:11, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

1) I don't think there can really be any doubt that the 2005 final, as well as being the final that earned them the right to keep the trophy, eclipses all other Euro finals that Liverpool competed in (there are numerous statements by players past and present to support this, as well as countless media references, etc.) The article must therefore in some way try to reflect this. I fully understand the point about weight, that's why I think it would be a good idea to try and find the juiciest quote by a very high-profile football commentator. 2) A clear compromise would be to state that by winning x they qualified to play in y and then leave it at that. No details of match y need to be given if it falls outside the purview of UEFA competitions. 3) I'm glad that we're making some progress on content. I have to say though that I'm having trouble understanding the rationale of other editors' wanting to include details about a match that should clearly be outside the scope of this article. I suggest a wording along the lines of "which meant that they qualified for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship" and then editors can click on the internal ref if they want to know more. Jprw (talk) 13:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed the bit about the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship right down its just two short sentences stating that were entitled to play in it and lost the competition, should be enough. Regarding the quote, the problem I have it is trying to get it to sound NPOV, which is hard, I agree that it is probably the greatest match in Liverpool's history (greatest in my living memory anyway), but other editors might disagree. We've got to try and word it right so it puts the point across about the match, yet does it in a neutral tone, not an easy task. NapHit (talk) 23:09, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Image of 2005 CL trophy uploaded
I've uploaded a cropped image of the 2005 trophy which could be used somewhere in the article. See Jprw (talk) 15:48, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

And now have uploaded another one which perhaps is better? Jprw (talk) 13:56, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Ye the one in the article is much better, looks a lot crisper and clearer. NapHit (talk) 21:07, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes I also thought it was in better focus and clearer, let's stick with it then. Jprw (talk) 06:46, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations on achieving FA status for this article
Congratulations to those editors who took this article from scratch to Featured Article status on Wikipedia. I saw for myself how much of a Herculean effort it was, in particular on the part of NapHit. Well done – you have done yourselves, the encyclopedia, and Liverpool Football Club proud. "What we do in life echoes in eternity" (one of the LFC banners at the Istanbul 2005 final). Jprw (talk) 12:56, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Champions League, European Cup
In the intro, and elsewhere in the article, it is stated that LFC has won "the UEFA Champions League (formerly known as the European Cup)" and "the UEFA Europa League (formerly known as the UEFA Cup)". More accurate would be to state that LFC has won "the European Cup (since replaced by the UEFA Champions League)" and "the UEFA Cup (since replaced by the UEFA Europa League)". -The Gnome (talk) 09:03, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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