Bruce Grobbelaar is “still laughing” at his ‘spaghetti legs’ routine in the 1984 European Cup Final and is confident Liverpool will beat Roma again.
The clubs have been drawn in the Champions League semi-final, which will be their first meeting since that fateful 1984 Final decided on penalties at the Stadio Olimpico.
It became legendary for Grobbelaar’s ‘spaghetti legs’ dance on his way to the touchline that made many think he was crazy, yet it managed to put off Bruno Conti enough to miss.
Bruce Grobbelaar is “still laughing” at his ‘spaghetti legs’ routine in the 1984 European Cup Final and is confident Liverpool will beat Roma again.
The clubs have been drawn in the Champions League semi-final, which will be their first meeting since that fateful 1984 Final decided on penalties at the Stadio Olimpico.
It became legendary for Grobbelaar’s ‘spaghetti legs’ dance on his way to the touchline that made many think he was crazy, yet it managed to put off Bruno Conti enough to miss.
“I just improvised it,” Grobbelaar told La Repubblica newspaper.
“I made my legs like spaghetti, even the goal looked like spaghetti, so I ate it up. I am still laughing at that. The photographers went mad, I was winking and shaking my head.
“That’s why Bruno Conti missed: I paralysed Roma.”
When they go head-to-head again in the semi-finals, the goalkeeper from Zimbabwe has no doubts.
“Liverpool will win the semi-final and the Final too. Football was invented by the English, don’t forget. Roma must’ve been mad to sell Mohamed Salah, either that or they really needed the money.”
Grobbelaar left Liverpool in 1994 and months later was embroiled in a match-fixing scandal, then declared bankrupt when unable to pay newspaper The Sun’s legal costs in a libel case.