Ciaran Hanley

In the end what happened was what everybody thought would happen - Liverpool would win but so would City, though that only tells part of the story of one of the most exciting final days in Premier League history. The dream of being at Anfield to see us win the title began last Monday evening when I got a text out of the blue offering me a ticket. A former work colleague and long time fan card holder had been planning to go to the final game of the season with his son, who now lives in Canada but their plans changed when they got FA Cup Final tickets so he came over for that instead. I quickly looked for flights to see what was cheap. Belfast to Liverpool or Manchester was over £300 return, Dublin to Liverpool the same. Dublin - Manchester was about £200 if I got the 06.30 flight and the 22.05 home. I even contemplated flying to Leeds and renting a car but it was too much hassle. Next, I had to get permission to go as I'm also going to Paris on Saturday for the Champions League Fina...

  When Ahmet Ertegun died on my 30 th birthday, 14 th December 2006, it completely passed me by because I’d no idea who he was. Someone showed me the film of The Song Remains The Same one night at university and I bought every Led Zeppelin album after but never thought about who the person behind the red and green Atlantic Records logo was. Suddenly the death of this man led to something I never thought I’d see happen – a Led Zeppelin reunion. Rumours were rife on the internet that it was happening but who would sit in for legendary drummer John Bonham whose death in 1980 had brought an end to the band. They reformed for Live Aid in 1985 with Phil Collins, a performance the band deemed so bad they refused to let it be included in the VHS of the marathon charity concert. In September 2007, it was announced that Bonhams son Jason would play drums, I was such a big fan of all things Zeppelin I even had an album of his band, Bonham. Everything seemed right and the concert was confi...