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what made you choose your favorite player

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spider-Neil

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just curious.
obviously it can't be simply a case of choosing the best player in the team or everyone's favorite player would be gerrard or more recently suarez. so why is your favorite player your favorite player?
personally speaking I tend to take misfits as my favorite player, I've always drawn to the underdog, the player that is taking a shed load of grief, this has pretty much been the case going all the way back to when I first started supporting liverpool, the funny thing is my first ever favorite liverpool player was john barnes argubly one of liverpool's best ever players. but after barnes I had to choose another favorite and it was mad stan and then I've pretty much chosen a misfit as favorite ever since. to give the forum a good laugh my favorite player has gone like this;

barnes
stan
titi
vlad
diouf (UGH!!)
nico
baros
babel

with the exception of barnes it can be argued they are all flops, so me picking a player as a favorite is a bad omen. not to worry suarez isn't my favorite player. :laugh:
 
You have Diouf and Anelka the wrong way round there.

Who's your favourite player now anyway?
 
[quote author=Richey link=topic=46491.msg1381184#msg1381184 date=1313573395]
You have Diouf and Anelka the wrong way round there.

Who's your favourite player now anyway?
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I'm edging towards henderson (see what I mean) but I'm going to resist as I want the guy to be a success.
 
I think a "favourite player" needs to have some special qualities that are enough to make you go to the match just to see them in action. From the 1960's team, my favourite player was Peter Thompson our left winger, because he was fast and tormented defenders in spectacular ways. In fact, once he had dribbled past a leaden-footed full back, he would often run back and do it all over again just because he could, so he wasn't always 100% effective.

John Barnes wasn't a favourite with me because he wasn't consistently brilliant and you had to go through hours of dross before seeing something spectacular.

I had a high regard for El Hadji Diouf who has continued to maintain a consistent standard since he left Anfield. He is naturally combative but Liverpool fans seemed to hold that against him.
 
Your favourite player is always one that you think has similarities to yourself, one you can identify with. See spideys reasons for liking certain players , sound familiar?
 
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=46491.msg1381195#msg1381195 date=1313575113]
Your favourite player is always one that you think has similarities to yourself, one you can identify with. See spideys reasons for liking certain players , sound familiar?
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and Portly's?

regards
 
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=46491.msg1381199#msg1381199 date=1313575728]
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=46491.msg1381195#msg1381195 date=1313575113]
Your favourite player is always one that you think has similarities to yourself, one you can identify with. See spideys reasons for liking certain players , sound familiar?
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and Portly's?

regards
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No theory works all the time.

My fave has been Alonso - intelligent, classy and handsome .


I think we can scrap that theory now
 
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=46491.msg1381195#msg1381195 date=1313575113]
Your favourite player is always one that you think has similarities to yourself, one you can identify with. See spideys reasons for liking certain players , sound familiar?


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It's true, that's why my favorite superhero is spider-man. the everyone man who always has no money, struggles to make ends meet, the outcast. I'm just waiting to marry a supermodel like when peter parker married mary jane 😉
 
My faves of recent times...

Riise
Agger
Masher
Torres *snotty,angry crying*
The Dirkilizer

So, fuck knows what that says about me.
 
i can't remember the last time i had a favourite player ...i guess that happens as you get older .
 
[quote author=RedZeppelin link=topic=46491.msg1381211#msg1381211 date=1313576630]
i can't remember the last time i had a favourite player ...i guess that happens as you get older .

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having no favorite player means you don't get hurt when they fuck off. I was very 'meh' when torres and mash and fucked off but was really hurt by alonso and arbeloa leaving (two players that really should be on my list as I loved them).
 
[quote author=RedZeppelin link=topic=46491.msg1381211#msg1381211 date=1313576630]
i can't remember the last time i had a favourite player ...i guess that happens as you get older .

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How old are you ? 8 ?
 
[quote author=Rosco link=topic=46491.msg1381195#msg1381195 date=1313575113]
Your favourite player is always one that you think has similarities to yourself, one you can identify with. See spideys reasons for liking certain players , sound familiar?
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Ouch! The same goes for Modo too.
 
I like players that do things that us mere mortals would never of think of doing. It's those flashes of brilliance that I love. Fowler was my favourite for ages for some of the goals he scored and his general cheekiness.
 
I was able to identify with Sean Dundee's inate act of being shit at everything. You just can't teach that stuff. Sean & I are just lucky I guess.

Oh, and he's white, and so am I.
 
Michael Owen was my first love. He was living my dream when I was 14 years old and I used to love watching him play. His almost instantaneous rise from school boy to one of the most feared strikers in Europe was startling.

Now I'm a bit smarter and more capable of seeing a players character. Our favourite players now should have great loyalty, dignity, honesty and most importantly, great levels of talent.

Sami Hyypia embodied what a 'favourite player' is meant to be. Will there be another who was quite so flawless? God I hope so.
 
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=46491.msg1381285#msg1381285 date=1313586985]
Sami Hyypia embodied what a 'favourite player' is meant to be. Will there be another who was quite so flawless? God I hope so.
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Yeah Sami was close to perfection. Amazing to think that he went through at least one season without picking up a single yellow card. Unbelievable for a central defender in the Premier League.
 
Some people seem to have conveniently forgotten the stick they gave Hyypia. Not just on this site, but generally. It was quite widespread. Guess its the same shower giving Carra stick now. Luckily, most of us know they're pricks.

Sami was a ledge.
 
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=46491.msg1381285#msg1381285 date=1313586985]
Michael Owen was my first love. He was living my dream when I was 14 years old and I used to love watching him play. His almost instantaneous rise from school boy to one of the most feared strikers in Europe was startling.

Now I'm a bit smarter and more capable of seeing a players character. Our favourite players now should have great loyalty, dignity, honesty and most importantly, great levels of talent.

Sami Hyypia embodied what a 'favourite player' is meant to be. Will there be another who was quite so flawless? God I hope so.
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ohh! ohh! sami was my favorite as well. there are players so good that even my shit mojo can't fuck them up.

sami
alonso
arbeloa

worth noting that the guy read the game so well he hardly ever needed to make a last ditch tackle. I only remember two games where sami was given the run around

1. 2001 fa cup final where henry gave him the run around (but still didn't score)
2. droga at home (and apparantly sami was ill)
 
[quote author=LarryHagman link=topic=46491.msg1381297#msg1381297 date=1313587862]
Some people seem to have conveniently forgotten the stick they gave Hyypia. Not just on this site, but generally. It was quite widespread. Guess its the same shower giving Carra stick now. Luckily, most of us know they're pricks.

Sami was a ledge.

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Which moron(s) gave Sami stick?

He struggled a bit with faster players as he got older, but he was still our best CB IMO, and should have been used more frequently by Rafa towards the end of both their LFC careers. It's a crying shame that he's part of someone else's staff now.
 
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=46491.msg1381301#msg1381301 date=1313588113]
[quote author=LarryHagman link=topic=46491.msg1381297#msg1381297 date=1313587862]
Some people seem to have conveniently forgotten the stick they gave Hyypia. Not just on this site, but generally. It was quite widespread. Guess its the same shower giving Carra stick now. Luckily, most of us know they're pricks.

Sami was a ledge.

[/quote]

Which moron(s) gave Sami stick?
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no one gave sami stick, in fact I remember uproar when sami wasn't included in the CL squad.
 
[quote author=spider-neil link=topic=46491.msg1381303#msg1381303 date=1313588304]
[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=46491.msg1381301#msg1381301 date=1313588113]
[quote author=LarryHagman link=topic=46491.msg1381297#msg1381297 date=1313587862]
Some people seem to have conveniently forgotten the stick they gave Hyypia. Not just on this site, but generally. It was quite widespread. Guess its the same shower giving Carra stick now. Luckily, most of us know they're pricks.

Sami was a ledge.

[/quote]

Which moron(s) gave Sami stick?
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no one gave sami stick, in fact I remember uproar when sami wasn't included in the CL squad.
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He got plenty of stick for a season or so, got his game back, then left us.
 
[quote author=Fabio link=topic=46491.msg1381305#msg1381305 date=1313588569]
i remember sami getting some stick
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Thanks mate.
 
Think it was during a spell where he had a coupe of iffy games then didn't play, some people thought it'd be best to get in a replacement as he was old and losing ability.

Obviously there's reasonable ways to say this and not be offensive to sami, but others....well.... "he's shit" etc
 
I don't remember posters saying Sami was sh!t as such, but I do remember a number of them saying he was finished.
 
Hyypia got criticised and described as 'past it' for quite a while - I think it was around the start of the 2007/08 season.

Similarly Carra used to get slagged off week after week a few years ago.
 
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