Great player, and had so much ability. But a legend he certainly ain't.
Though it's the whole Spice Boys thing isn't it? That has to be one of the most embarrassing episodes in Liverpool's history. We had young lads from the youth system, and players who were brought into the club, who all suddenly felt they were fashionable and more important than opposition players because they were playing for the great Liverpool FC. Liverpool's glory years as the best team in the world was still recent memory back in the mid 90s, so it's obvious these players all thought they were big time charlies in line with the legends of our league and European winning sides.
I don't think Robbie Fowler was innocent in all of this either - he wasn't the worst offender, but the lack of professionalism by Liverpool players in the 90s was astonishing. If I saw the team now walking out onto the field at a cup final wearing cream suits, I'd make sure they'd all be blood soaked by time I'd finished with them. They had all the tools at their disposal, and they wasted all that potential. If any team summed up the prima donnas and overpaid playboys that the general public connotate with footballers today, then that Liverpool side in the mid 90s epitomised it.
Ironically enough, they couldn't be further opposites from being in a league with the likes of Barnes, Rush, Dalglish, Heighway, St John, Thompson, Hansen, etc.... (I could go on for ever and ever).
I expect every Liverpool player to run through brick walls and shed blood, sweat and tears for the club, just like how all our legends did it. If anything set back Liverpool so far back, it was the majority of those arrogant bell ends that apparently 'represented' this club. Sickening.
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