  The discovery of EUV and soft X-ray excess emission in clusters of galaxies
(the cluster soft-excess phenomenon) challenged the notion of the hot ($\sim
10^{7-8}$ K) gas as the only dominant thermal component of the intracluster
medium (ICM). The spatial analysis of ROSAT PSPC 1/4 keV images presented here
reveals compelling evidence for substantial amounts of cold gas (HI) in the ICM
of the Coma and Virgo clusters. This finding bolsters the original
interpretation of the soft excess as emission from a `warm' ($\sim 10^6$ K) gas
and points to the scenario of a multiphase ICM where the hot component
co-exists with gases at sub-Virial temperatures (the `warm' and `cold' phases).
