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ALL NOW IN UR EAR ALL NOWS IN UR EAR cos i dream of all you say and you'll always be a coc.ck

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ALL NOW IN UR EAR ALL NOWS IN UR EAR cos i dream of all you say and you'll always be a coc.ck

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WTF?

F.I.V.E........................

[Dundalk]

Good man Barry!

[JBG]

ALL NOW IN UR EAR ALL NOWS IN UR EAR cos i dream of all you say and you'll always be a coc.ck

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Whats this about? You on the gargle again Barry?

[anfieldadorer]

I'm fatter, I'm slower, I'm older, but:

[mighty mo]

"When we had God on our side"


The streets around Craven Cottage, home of Fulham FC  were flooded on September 22nd 1993 and if you just happened to be a fan Of Liverpoool FC life wasn't at it's greatest. But whilst we walked through the storm under not so golden skys we didn't know we were about to witness a happening of biblical proportions. Or put it another way, Robbie Fowler made his debut. I dare say Fulham had no idea who he was but within a fortnight they knew his name. He scored on his debut, got 5 in the return leg, would bag an hatrick later in the season , break his leg and comeback to score the winning goal in the last ever "derby" to be played before the old Kop; quite a first season in the big time !

We would come to know him as "God" and this son of Toxteth, once a blue but definitely a Red was heaven sent. Suddenly you wanted to be there when Fowler played for Liverpool. He could be good, he could be great, he could be totally outrageous or he could be downright ****** but you always wanted to be there because you never knew what he could conjure up when all seemed lost.

They do say that Steve Staunton is still trying to undo himself after being turned inside out by Robbie in that game against Villa in 1996. A FOUR minute hatrick aginst Arsenal, goals against the Mancs that had the Red Nosed Rudolph fuming for months, goals against the Bluesnoses that had them wishing they;d kept their mouths shut, we saw great goals, sly goals and simple goals, we got the lot when we had Robbie Fowler.

I once read that Robbie Fowler epitomised Scouse and that might be right but whatever your opinions about his departure you surely have to admit he took a little bit of Liverpool with him. The unpredictable magic, the Scally and a fair sized chunk of the "Scouse Heart" as well. I will always love watching Liverpool but I have to admit I loved it a little bit more when we had God with us !

Robbie Fowler would have been more of a legend in the old days;he's have broken all scoring records and won more medals than he could have dreamed of. He'd have loved the football played by the team in the 70's and 80's, loved the social side as well, not to mention the chips on the way home from away games!

Legends are born, not made. In 10 years time as we watch a team of robots play the game we might yearn for the Toxteth Terror and the days when we had God on our side.

i remember that turn robbie  pulled on staunton,and the venomous shot from about 25 yards,awesome goal

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ALL NOW IN UR EAR ALL NOWS IN UR EAR cos i dream of all you say and you'll always be a coc.ck

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LIVERPOOL FC BELFAST!

Whats this about? You on the gargle again Barry?

Yes Mister moderator............u can only wish to ban me!!!


Give me a snog ya big wet fool !!!


YNWA

[laza]

Once i was lost but now im am found
Was blind but now i can see

Been walking about with a smile on my face all day,
the magic of football

[drummerphil]

You all know the circumstances i've had this year especially since June................i cant believe how seeing Robbie back at Anfield has given me a lift.................so fecking well chuffed.

[redsince2001]

What a lovely article from Oliver Kay.

The Times January 28, 2006


Anfield gets ready to cry Fowler once more
By Oliver Kay

IN COMMON with many inside the Ataturk Stadium on May 25, Robbie Fowler wept as he saw Liverpool’s players, including fellow Scousers such as Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, cavorting around with the European Cup. He told himself that he should have been among them. One of his old team-mates agreed. “If it hadn’t been for Gérard Houllier, you’d have been out there too,” he told him and Fowler nodded appreciatively, his eyes welling up.
It was as if one of the most famous parables was being retold with a nasty twist, that the prodigal son was left on the outside looking in as his family celebrated without him, but eight months later, he is back among them, doubtless to the apprehension of any fattened calves that happen to be grazing in the Anfield area.

The story of Fowler’s return to Liverpool is remarkable, and one that will have many wondering whether Rafael Benítez has taken leave of his senses and for once allowed emotion to infiltrate his judgment.

But whether he leaves with a whimper at the end of his six-month contract or spends the coming years inscribing his name deeper into Merseyside folklore, it is a truly astonishing change of fortune for a man whose memories from Istanbul sounded rather like Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff, telling a nonplussed Graeme Souness that “I could’ve been a footballer . . . but I had a paper round”.

This season, Fowler has played only 61 minutes of football in the Barclays Premiership for Manchester City, his only full appearance coming in the FA Cup against Scunthorpe United, when he rolled back the years with a hat-trick. At the time it felt like a last hurrah at City, with Coca-Cola Championship clubs, including Ipswich Town, Millwall and Wolverhampton Wanderers, sniffing around him. Everton and Wigan Athletic made inquiries, but the offer he was waiting for, in his wildest dreams at least, came yesterday.

Fowler has always maintained he had unfinished business at Anfield. He said as much in his autobiography, in which he blames Houllier, Benítez’s predecessor, for hounding him out of the club he loved. Some of his grievances with the Frenchman are justified, others not, but he feels that the manner of his departure was summed up by the fact that, on what proved his final appearance before joining Leeds United, he was substituted at half-time against Sunderland as Houllier made a tactical adjustment once Dietmar Hamann was sent off. “It was horrible not being able to say goodbye to the fans,” he said. “If there was one thing I could change, it would be that.”

The fans, though, never forgot him. Whereas Michael Owen was jeered by some on his return with Newcastle United, Fowler has always been revered. They love him for every one of his 171 goals for the club, but they also love him because he is one of them, a daft scally who could be seen winning Fifa fair-play commendations, earning the wrath of Uefa by wearing a T-shirt supporting the sacked Liverpool dockers and snorting the goalline in an ill-advised celebration in a Merseyside derby.

And he loves them back. A boyhood Evertonian he may have been, but, even after his late goal for City against Manchester United recently, he made a point of lifting five fingers to the away supporters, one for every European Cup Liverpool have won.

Now he has the opportunity to rekindle the love affair. Missed opportunities have been a story of Liverpool’s season. Fowler, who had to hold back the tears as he wore the red shirt in front of the Kop for a charity match last March, was never going to pass up this one.

great post and  a touching article ciggy ...thanks.

[*_Ruthless_*]

Oh man this has made my year already!!

Robbie *GOD* Fowler has returned cant wait for his first game this wed!!

[Kash_Mountain]

I just get this feeling that God will score in every game he plays.    

[stmichael]

welcome home god!

[wrighty (not mark!)]

our hero is back! u the man robbie! I hope when he is unveiled the whole crowd bows down chantin 'GOD, GOD, GOD, GOD!'

[stmichael]

our hero is back! u the man robbie! I hope when he is unveiled the whole crowd bows down chantin 'GOD, GOD, GOD, GOD!'

alright wrighty. where you been hiding?