I woke up screaming and sweating after poisonous lies and huge injustice in Liverpool horror show

Andriy Shevchenko is one of the greatest strikers of modern football. A Ballon d’Or winner, too no less, having won the coveted prize back in 2004.

Enjoying the peak of his powers with AC Milan, he scored 175 goals in 322 games for the Italian outfit, winning Serie A, the Champions League, the Coppa Italia, the UEFA Super Cup, and the Supercoppa Italiana.

It was his winning penalty that clinched the Champions League for the club in 2003, with the Ballon d’Or following the following year after winning Serie A.

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And after reaching the Champions League final again in 2005, the Ukrainian was dreaming not only of another European Cup, but of another Ballon d’Or win too.

Yet it was to be Liverpool’s night in Istanbul rather than Milan and Shevchenko’s. The Italians raced into a 3-0 lead, with it even suggested they were heard celebrating victory at half-time. Yet the Reds famously fought back with three goals in the space of six minutes after the break, before winning on penalties.

But you already know all that. What you won’t know is Shevchenko’s own version of events.

The Ukranian’s autobiography, ‘My Life, My Football’, was initially published in 2021, but the British translated version was released last month. Within his memoir, Shevchenko recalls that iconic night in Istanbul as he rues two ‘huge injustices’ that he insists cost AC Milan dear.

“We were a great Milan team, ready to face Liverpool at the Ataturk Stadium,” he wrote. “We approached the game in an extremely calm frame of mind, well aware of our ability…

“For everyone connected with