While the penalty shootout was underway during that magical night in Istanbul, Hollywood star Mike Myers - better known as Austin Powers - left his seat at the Ataturk stadium and told fellow Liverpool fans 'I'm sorry I just cannot watch.'

However, once the Champions League trophy was won for the fifth time, Myers was one of many Liverpool fans throughout Istanbul and the world who partied the night away.

Despite being born in Ontario, Canada, in 1963 the comic genius says his offbeat humour is the legacy of his Scouse parents, Eric and Bunny who hailed from the Old Swan area of Liverpool.

"I was the only kid in Toronto to wear an olive-green Nehru jacket and support Liverpool FC."