Robbie Fowler
Robbie Fowler
Robert Bernard "Robbie" Fowleris an English former professional footballer and manager who played as a striker from 1993 to 2012. Fowler was known for being a natural scorer with an instinctive goal-poaching ability...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth9 April 1975
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It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship, ... But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.
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Last season I counted four fingers at them for the number of European Cups Liverpool had won. Next time, I can just stick my whole hand up.
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After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.
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I've made plenty of mistakes, I know I have, and during my time as a footballer things have changed so that the spotlight is now even more intense.
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If they had been a bit tougher in the transfer market, they could have got me for half that. It was crazy and maybe typical of what was going on.
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If I'm honest, until I got married, I was always at me mum's, even when I had my own flat, and she carried on cooking and washing and ironing for me.
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It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.
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It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.
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When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.
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We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.
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When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.
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It is not for me to say whether I have done well enough, personally I believe I have not done too badly, but the manager's decision is final. If he wants me to stay, great, but I have got to give him a bit of a headache by scoring goals and playing well. Hopefully I am doing that. Until the manager says otherwise, I will just have to go about my business and hopefully do what I do best.
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I was a cheeky little lad who played football every night, pissed around with his mates, and overnight, literally overnight, came fame.
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For me to get anywhere near him is a fantastic achievement and to surpass him by one - I'm delighted. I grew up an Everton fan but Kenny is a proper Liverpool legend and to get anywhere near him is fantastic.