ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Oct 14, 2013 2:13 pm wrote:Paddock Wool
Can't quite believe I've just read this post........
Suarez is an excellent footballer, but Fowler in his prime was unplayable. Scored goals from everywhere, diving headers, left foot, right foot, in the box, out the box. In terms of status with the fans Fowler is a God. I'd take Fowler in his prime everytime over Luis.
suarez is a far better player than fowler and calling fowler god is embaressing imo, you`d think this club had never had a decent striker before the 1990`s.
the likes or rush and hunt scored twice as many goals as fowler did, they did the business for this club for a decade in high pressure situations too like title run in`s and european cup semi finals etc
fans who over rate fowler are usually born from 1980-1990, they never saw the true greats
Not all mate ,not all ,and speaking as a child of the mid 70's I would have to say that Fowler was the most naturally gifted goalscorer I have ever seen
at the club .....My old man used to say he was the closest thing to Jimmy Greaves he had ever seen ,and he's supported Liverpool for 50 years man
and boy .
Robbie's phenomenon began long before he pulled the first team shirt on ,his talent was talked of in pubs the length and breadth of Liverpool even
when he graced the reserves,in truth I honestly cant remember a first team debut being swathed in such lofty expectation.
As for the nickname ,I believe the reverence he received from the Dockers lifted him to those exalted heights....Like I said Robbie Fowler had more
natural ability than any striker I have ever seen in the red of Liverpool ,he scored goals with contemptuous ease ,he regularly embarrassed the best
and most taut defences in England at the time,and he done it with an impudence and arrogance.
Luis Suarez is possibly the most outrageously talented player ever to wear the red of Liverpool ,but in terms of him being revered with the same level
of esteem as Fowler, then its simply not feasible. The Kop don't anoint people with such platitudes unless they're duly merited.