Just what has former LFC striker Stan Collymore got against Liverpool Football Club? This weekend and in previous weeks gone by the ex-striker hasn’t had a good word to say against his former employees even though they are sitting at the top of the Premier League.
LFC made Collymore the most expensive signing in British footballing history when they beat Man Utd to his signature and paid Nottingham Forest a cool £8.5 million for his services in 1995. Collymore had the dream start to life at Anfield when on his home debut he scored the winner against Sheffield Wednesday in the opening match of the 95/96 season.
Collymore formed an excellent partnership with fellow forward Robbie Fowler and between them they scored 55 odd goals helping Liverpool finish 3rd in the Premiership, their highest finish since winning the old division one title in 1991. LFC also got through to the 1996 FA Cup final but lost to eventual double winners Man Utd.
After 2 seasons and 28 goals in 63 games, loss of form and a bad attitude forced LFC to sell Collymore to Aston Villa for £7m. It was a dream move for Collymore who had supported Villa since a boy. The dream turned to a nightmare as Collymore couldn’t hold down a first team place and scored a poor 15 goals (2 against LFC in a 2-1 win) in 3 seasons.
In 1998 his Villa career came to end when watching a World Cup match, Collymore punched his then girlfriend Ulrika Johnson in the face. After unsuccessful attempts to rescue his flagging career at Leicester, Fulham (loan), Bradford and Real Oviedo he retired at the age of 30. Collymore again hit the news for the wrong reasons a few years ago when he was caught in the sexual act of Dogging.
Now a commentator for Talksport Collymore uses his air time to slag of his former club. Whilst commentating on LFCs 3-1 over Blackburn this weekend Collymore stunned LFC fans by saying that Liverpool won’t win the league title and by his reckoning they will finish 9th? He went on to add that Liverpool do not deserve their title of European champions in 2005 by claiming they got lucky in the final against AC Milan.
Then when asked about how good Jamie Carragher has been for Liverpool FC, Collymore replied “Who is Jamie Carragher? I’ve never heard of him” and then finished by saying that JC was not world class and that he (Collymore) could real of a list of current defenders better than Carragher.
Finally he asked “What has Carragher ever won?”
2 FA Cups, 2 Worthington Cups, 1 UEFA Cup, 1 Champions League, 2 Super Cups and a couple Charity Shields winners medals a good enough list? Basically Carragher, like Gerrard, has won every club honour you can apart from the Premier League title.
His rant over Carragher is because in Carraghers book he claims that Collymore thought he was bigger than LFC and was a waste of talent. The truth hurts Collymore.
Another reason that Collymore could have an issue with reds is that he claims that LFC tried to make him a player he didn’t want to be. They tried to get him playing more as a team player but Collymore thought he should be able to play however he wanted.
Jamie Carragher is legend already for LFC something that Collymore will never be. Collymore no doubt had talent but chose not to use it to his full potential. Carragher hasn’t got half the talent that Collymore had but has proved with hard work and the desire to get better in every game you can achieve your goals. Collymore is on Talksport most nights spouting his rubbish to the nation. Next time he blasts LFC I urge you all to bombard the station with phone calls and texts putting this waste of time in his place.
YNWA
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