The four best Liverpool performers against Manchester United all-time
Below is a summary of the full article. Click here for the full version from Rush The Kop or go back to LFC Live.
Robbie FowlerRobbie Fowler is one of Liverpool’s most deadly finishers in their entire history. Some will say Luis Suarez was our most lethal, but Fowler was right up there with him.A local boy turned superstar, he understands what it meant to play for Liverpool and therefore, understood what the derby meant.He played in a team that was regularly second best to United.
Whilst we were tending down, Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United were trending up.Shy of our treble in 2001, we didn’t have much to shout about, so we had to put it all into the derby.Unfortunately, I was only a pup when Fowler was at his piercing best, but through growing up watching Premier League Years on Sky Sports and now having the luxury of the internet, watching him play seemed almost abnormal to his era.He wouldn't look out of place in a modern-day front line, and you can’t say that about everybody who played in the 90s.He found the net 6 times against United in a Liverpool shirt and then almost made it his career mission to join any rival of the Manchester club. Our golden boy from Spain, who was brought in to bring us one step closer to a title we hadn’t held for well over a decade.He took to the Kop like a duck to water, and he had the city in the palm of his hand.
He was worshipped by the Scousers and feared by everybody else, and that’s why we loved him.The ending wasn’t befitting of the start, so the less said about that, the better, but you can’t mention El Niño’s name and Manchester United in the same sentence without ‘that’ image coming to the front of your mind.We were playing away at Old Trafford, a place we very rarely played well, let alone picked up any points. He still had it all to do, but as he calmly slotted his effort past a scrambling Edwin van der Sar, he set in motion a rare victory in Manchester and wrote himself into Liverpool folklore.Add us as a preferred source on GoogleFollow