Hindsight's lovely

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

I remember there was a Guardian article, in the summer of 2004, don't know how to even contemplate searching for it - Will probably knows it by memory. Anyway, Rafa had just joined, Owen left & Stevie granted us a year to see how things shaped up. The article's basis was:

 

May 2001, and a not-yet-21 year-old Steven Gerrard had just scored in the UEFA Cup final helping his club to an historical treble. This should have proved to be the launch-pad to a career littered with honours and medals, league championships aplenty.

 

Little over 3-years later and one of his primary foils - Michael Owen - has moved on to pastures new, to join the Galacticos at Real Madrid, Liverpool have continued to be perennial underachievers & Stevie promises to be yet another fantastic talent wasted at a club these days associated with being the nearly-men.

 

blah blah blah

 

...and that's why Stevie should leave Liverpool & join Chelsea, to fulfill his dreams & potential.

 

 

Since then? Owen's won nothing, left Real & now plays for Newcastle.

 

Stevie has won the EC, an FAC & been player of the year.

 

How times change

[Sion]

the guardian is a w*** paper for 60 year old racists.

[Leroy]

We should save all these, then mail them off to the gob***es, to remind them of the crap they write.

[Guz]

Apart from the Evening Standard and Daily Mail, every article I saw after Stevie's [2nd] u-turn praised Gerrard and praised Liverpool. Almost as if it was the perfect 'council estate, hometown boy, great traditional club turns down evil money men of football' kind of story.

[slapnuts]

Same with Owen V's Rafa.

 

Owens won nowt since and Rafa's got a bagful

[RP]

We should save all these, then mail them off to the gob***es, to remind them of the crap they write.

 

Or just not bother reading them in the first place. It's better for your heart.

[Leroy]

Or just not bother reading them in the first place. It's better for your heart.

 

I dont RP, but people keep bringing it up on here.