God not this again, we had all this when Carra retired.
If we were to retire a shirt number every time a legend left the club, we'd be into the hundreds by now. Roger Hunt, one of the all time greats for Liverpool wore number 8. If we retired his shirt number, there wouldn't even be a number 8 for Stevie to wear - this after he wore 28 and 17 as well don't forget. Let's retire them as well?
Great players will come and go and eventually we will have another great number 8. It may start next season, it may not happen in my lifetime. Who knows. But the fact is, we will have another great number 8, so retiring shirt numbers is one of the daftest F***ing ideas in football and that includes when it's done in honour of somebody like City did with Marc Vivian Foe's number 23 or when clubs retire the number 12 shirt for their fans, it's daft.
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