He drinks Sangria

Frustrating player in that he gave the ball away more than even Firmino, but boy did he give us incredible memories!
A couple of remarkable headers in there that we haven't seen anyone doing since for Liverpool.

 

Closest we've had since is Jota

 

My abiding memory of Garcia was that I always knew when he was shit in the first half, as he often was, he would win us the game in the second.
And I will always love him for his continued trolling of Jose about the "ghost goal".

 

lock-pick

every team needs one

 

My favourite ever player.

 

His left-right foot ability confounded opponents. Added to that was the predatory reactions to any spills or parries.

 

I remember all the great goals he scored, but I also remember how inconsistent he was. He could look like a world class player one game and be completely useless the next. What was especially frustrating is how often he lost the ball.
But still, club legend in my book and a pity he couldn't play in the FA cup final he lead us to

 

Yossi and Suarez had better headers.

 

Always thought his real calling was as more of a number 9 poacher type - like a Robbie Fowler. He had an incredible eye for goal - but was one of the most wasteful players in possession I've ever seen in a Liverpool shirt.

 

Garcia's header vs Anderlecht is one of the best headers ever scored.

 

I can't believe it was all twenty years ago. I mean I was about a decade out in my head.

 

No fucking way that ball crossed the line. Would have been a penalty and a red anyway.

Garcia did my head in, like a lot of the players we had then, close to world class, but just lacking something. For him that was consistency.

 

He pulled them out of his arse in big games.

Not everyone is a world beater in every game. Not everyone has a body that stays at peak through a season. There were better players than Garcia, and we couldn't get any of them, because our team was shit. For us to win a champions league with that team, everyone had to bring the best of themselves, the right players had to be world class on the night, and the football gods, though long dead, had to smile on us.

No one was more all of that than Garcia. I don't get angry at players for not being better than they are, I get angry at the players who don't extract what talent they have. It's why I hate myself, and why I love Luis.

 

It drives them more nuts to be insistent the ball did cross the line. The attempts to prove it conclusively after the fact at the time were amateurish, the lines didn't even line up. That's the sort of shit I say to them to make them angrier. Invent a friend who was sat strategically looking down the line. They start rolling their eyes at the biased hearsay, then you dutifully break into tears about how he died of bowel cancer. I don't concede the first point and move on to the red card thing, however valid. Up your game. Know your enemy.

 

salah loses the ball just as much

*runs behind couch

 

I first started to believe we could win the Champions League when Garcia's sublime strike against Juve hit the back of the net.

It's permanently etched into my memories, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

 

Liverpool Team v Milan 2007

   
GK 25  Pepe Reina
RB 3  Steve Finnan 88'
CB 23  Jamie Carragher  60'
CB 5  Daniel Agger
LB 6  John Arne Riise
DM 14  Xabi Alonso
DM 20  Javier Mascherano  58'  78'
RM 16  Jermaine Pennant
LM 32  Boudewijn Zenden 59'
AM 8  Steven Gerrard (c)
CF 18  Dirk Kuyt

Substitutes:
GK 1  Jerzy Dudek
DF 2  Álvaro Arbeloa 88'
DF 4  Sami Hyypiä
MF 7  Harry Kewell 59'
MF 11  Mark González
FW 15  Peter Crouch 78'
FW 17  Craig Bellamy

 

When i saw the thread I thought he was brown bread. Then again, it would’ve been he drank sangria.