Oh well, thought I'd pop by to see how all you folks are doing :)
Kate is now 9 months old and is...
Oh well, thought I'd pop by to see how all you folks are doing :)
Kate is now 9 months old and is a little darling :)
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I thought I would write my landmark “100th opinion” about something I really do appreciate, in this case it is a certain “ROBBIE FOWLER” (known to us Liverpool fans as GOD).
This guy has got to be the most Honest and down to earth Player in the game, and is totally adored by EVERY single true Liverpool fan, despite missing the majority of games in the last few seasons and constantly getting a lot of bad press off the media.
Robbie was born on April the 9th 1975 and was brought up on a rough housing estate in the Toxteth area of Liverpool (scene of the infamous riots), as a youngster he was actually a Evertonian (he hasn’t always been perfect LOL), while attending Nugent Secondary School, he was selected for the Liverpool under 14’s team and was spotted by Liverpool scout Jimmy Aspinall, two years later he signed schoolboy forms for Liverpool, after turning down his childhood heroes Everton.
Fowler burst on to big time scene in 1993, when he immediately showed the world that he is the most natural goal-scorer the country has seen, since a certain Jimmy Greaves, by scoring on his debut in a 3-1 win League Cup win over Fulham and really hitting the heights in the second leg by unbelievably scoring ALL FIVE goals in the second leg (only his THIRD senior game), and then went on to score a hat-trick against Southampton in only his fifth league game and ended his first ever season by finishing leading scorer for Liverpool with 18 goals, and this was despite suffering an unlucky hairline fracture and missing 2 months of the season.
The next season Fowler went on to score at an incredible rate, and also scored the fastest hat trick the Premier League has witnessed, with a quick-fire hat-trick (4 mins 32 secs) against Arsenal at Anfield and once again finished the season as Liverpool’s top goal-scorer.
Over the next few seasons Fowler carried on his remarkable record, but began to blot his copybook by getting into one or two problems and he also started to suffer from regular injury problems, which halted his progress and his England career suffered.
As I’ve said Fowler has a habit of getting himself noticed for the wrong reasons i.e. Getting charged with dis-repute for bearing his bottom in a match against Leicester, the infamous incident with Graemne Le Saux and the line sniffing incident in the local derby against rivals Everton (but I must agree, this action was justified as the Everton fans had given him a terrible time over the news that his sister was supposedly addicted to drugs) and more recently he has twice been attacked (by Everton fans) whilst out in the town centre.
The thing that no-one ever seems to mention about Fowler is the incredible incident versus Arsenal, when going through on goal he fell over Seaman and the referee gave a penalty, Robbie immediately jumped up and said to the ref it was not a penalty and he fell over (thus saving Seaman from getting sent off), now how many of today’s players would do that and also the incredible support Fowler and team-mate Steve McManaman showed to the Liverpool Dockers, during the much publicised Liverpool Dockers strike, where they donated huge amounts of their wages to the Dockers and their families as well as bearing T-Shirts supporting them.
Over the last season or two, Fowler has had a dreadful time with injury after injury, and loss of form, and this seemed to attract the gutter press to start off no end of sensational stories about Fowler, and despite Liverpool boss Gerald Houllier constantly stating Fowler is “NOT FOR SALE” and actually making him captain of the team (albeit in club captain Jamie Redknapps absence), and Fowler himself stating he is not interested in moving from Liverpool, they just wont give up, constantly linking him with Chelsea, Arsenal, Rangers, Celtic, Middlesboro, etc.
This season began with gloom for Fowler as he failed to establish himself as a first team regular due mainly to the incredible form of Emile Heskey and Michael Owen, and more injuries and many a Liverpool fan was beginning to think the unthinkable “Maybe Robbie will leave”, but NO over the past few weeks Fowler has begun to show his old brilliant form with some superb link-up play and one or two of his trademark goals.
So here’s to Fowler steering clear of injuries and bad publicity, and getting back to his very talented best, which would benefit not only Liverpool, but England too.
I’ll end with a message to all the gutter-press people out there; leave the lad alone as he is GOING NOWHERE! And has no intention of leaving Liverpool.
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Advantages: Great insight into what goes on behind the scenes in football Disadvantages: Written before Fowler rejoined the reds so another chapter needed
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Advantages: Great insight into what goes on behind the scenes in football Disadvantages: Written before Fowler rejoined the reds so another chapter needed
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