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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Connor O'Neill

UEFA should be watching Merseyside very closely after Everton and Liverpool developments

It was all the way back in June 1996, that Anfield hosted a European Championship quarter-final between France and the Netherlands.

The game, which featured the likes of Zinedine Zidane, Laurent Blanc, Patrick Kluivert and Dennis Bergkamp, finished 0-0 in normal time. The French would ultimately win 5-4 on penalties, with Clarence Seedorf the only player to miss.

It is also hard to believe - even harder when you are shoehorned into one of the most cramped and restrictive press boxes in England - that Goodison Park was once a World Cup stadium.

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