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As an interesting aside from yesterday's debacle. I'll go with McManaman. He was insanely good when I saw him. I know he left under a cloud but he really was fucking mint when I saw him! Opposing player I'll go with Laudrup. What a player! He scored the goal for Chelsea against the reds when Babb done his knackers in. Sublime player though. Post your faves. 🙂
 
Dalglish. If anything he's underrated these days, as well as penalised for the fact he shone in a whole team of stars (you don't hear that argument against Messi). He had incredible vision, an almost spooky awareness, great technique, great strength, beautiful balance and a real genius for turning a game. He didn't play in any particular position; he was decades ahead of his time. And yes, if he'd played in a mediocre team, he would have carried it with his brilliance.
 
gkmacca said:
Dalglish. If anything he's underrated these days, as well as penalised for the fact he shone in a whole team of stars (you don't hear that argument against Messi). He had incredible vision, an almost spooky awareness, great technique, great strength, beautiful balance and a real genius for turning a game. He didn't play in any particular position; he was decades ahead of his time. And yes, if he'd played in a mediocre team, he would have carried it with his brilliance.
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Nice. Thanks GK. I love hearing stuff like this.
 
So I have to go with Modern Times and I've not seen Liverpool play many great teams so haven't got much to choose from but here goes...

LFC Player - Suarez, was absolutely brilliant in everything he did and his attitude and will to win were unbelievable.

Opposition - Hazard, brilliant football, technically amazing, quick feet and fast on the move too.
 
Us - John Barnes. He was 10-15 years ahead of his time. I don't think people realise quite how brilliant he was.

Other cunts - Ronaldinho.
 
For us - Kenny Dalglish, it's a cliché but he really did have great vision. When the ball went to him there was an expectation, that's hard to define, but the crowd really felt something was about to happen.

Others - bit obscure now but back in the mid 70's Stoke had a player called Alan Hudson who played midfield, everything Stoke did (and they had a decent team at the time) started with him. He had a bit of a badboy reputation and it cost him international caps but he was a great player in my opinion. I'd see him alternate Saturdays when LFC where away.
 
Best player I have seen would be Gerrard.

Best performance I have seen - Omar Abdulrahman of UAE.
 
jexykrodic said:
For us - Kenny Dalglish, it's a cliché but he really did have great vision. When the ball went to him there was an expectation, that's hard to define, but the crowd really felt something was about to happen.

Others - bit obscure now but back in the mid 70's Stoke had a player called Alan Hudson who played midfield, everything Stoke did (and they had a decent team at the time) started with him. He had a bit of a badboy reputation and it cost him international caps but he was a great player in my opinion. I'd see him alternate Saturdays when LFC where away.
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Who?
 
Suarez for us.

Slightly sentimental one for other: Pat Jennings. I was a keeper as a kid, and I firmly believed Pat Jennings was the best keeper to wear gloves. Saw him near the very end of his playing career but still adored him. Met him too, and was transfixed by the size of his hands. He looked like he could pick up a football with one hand with his fingers meeting on either side of the thing.
 
Not the best player Ive seen but a performance that has always stuck with me was Sol Campbell us away at the lane, Carragher scored an own goal or maybe 2! He was immense, big, strong, quick, technically good and read the game superbly.
 
Really difficult to pin it down to one so heres my top five. Dalglish, just so reliably brilliant for so long, always had so much time. John Barnes before his injury - just unplayable, and Rush for his workrate as well as the goals, did he invent pressing? I can't recall other teams defending from the front like we did, he was constantly harrassing. Souness, the hardest midfielder I've ever seen but he could play too and Hansen - the best central defender I've ever watched - so cultured on the ball, so aware off it
 
Dalglish...by a mile. As others have already said he had incredible vision and balance. What's often overlooked is his strength. He was incredibly difficult to knock off the ball, thanks in part to his incredibly large and powerful arse. He used that to great effect to shield the ball when he had his back to goal. He also worked incredibly hard for the team...making clever little runs to pull defenders away from others. Combine all of that with sublime skills and God-given talent and you have an extraordinary footballer.
 
I also have no idea how many great performances I've missed by other players as a result of not being able to take my eyes off what Dalglish was doing on the pitch irrespective of whether he or we had the ball. He had that effect. It's funny how even when I see him now, especially if I'm watching a game on the telly and there's a close up of him in the stand, he still makes me smile. If I sound like I'm infatuated by the man it's because I always was and always will be. Criticise some of what he did as manager if you wish but please don't ever disrespect this man because he, Paisley and Shankly are as close as anyone will ever be to actually being as big as the club itself.
 
I once saw Best live, and he is without question the greatest footballer I've ever seen in my life so I'll nominate him, though he wasn't really on his game that day.

The best actual performance was probably Keegan against Stoke City at Anfield in the Cup, the Saturday after Cally got his MBE. He must have covered every blade of grass on that pitch three times over, and his headed goal was part of the MOTD opening montage for years afterwards. It's a measure of how outstanding the King was that Keegan was relatively quickly forgotten when the King replaced him.

Incidentally @jexykrodic Stoke were really dirty on the day (not surprisingly with players like Dennis Smith and Pejic in the team) and Hudson played his full part in that! But he could certainly play.
 
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Incidentally @jexykrodic Stoke were really dirty on the day (not surprisingly with players like Dennis Smith and Pejic in the team) and Hudson played his full part in that! But he could certainly play.
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Indeed JJ, they used to put it about quite a lot but they also had talent like Jimmy Greenhoff and Geoff Hurst to balance it up a bit. It was a great time to see them every other week when LFC were away.
 
Sir John Smith on how he and Peter Robinson signed Kenny:

'Me and Peter went to Celtic one day on the off chance. We asked for two tickets and could we get the board together after the game because we might do some business. After the game they sat me in the boardroom and I knew I had them because they sat me at the head of the boardroom table. Peter was on my right. He started the conversation by saying. 'Peter, who is it we're interested in? What's his name? Rennie, Terry, Kenny Doig, oh yeah, Dalglish. How much do you want for him?' They came back after having a little huddle in the corner. They said 800 and I said: 'Is that pence or shillings?'"
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Best player for us Suarez or Gerrard.

Best individual performance for us was Suarez against West Brom when he scored a hat trick which included a header from outside the area.

The best performance for another team that I saw live was Xavi against Malaga for Barcelona. It was ridiculous. It was like a kid's training session and one team had a lesser man and so the manager plonked himself at centre mid for one of the teams and took the piss.

The first video below is one of the passes he did on the night. The second one, I assume, is one where someone has made a video of every time he got the ball. If you can't be arsed to watch it all, the best bits are at around 1:50 right through to 2:20, 3:20, and 7:20, but there whole video is full of intricate touches and "tiki taka" at its best before it get somewhat boring and found out. Best performance I've ever seen.



 
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