KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum 12 years ago today

yeah he kinda was.

fairness to him he bought the great sami hyppia , plus hamann and finnan.and the big mac.

he was a bit of a long ball merchant though. and defo a PR hound.

never remember him fight with people or washing the clubs dirty linen in public, but I suppose people like that sort of nonsense , he put Liverpool back in the European frame won cups and challenged for the league in 02 , took Liverpool in to the CL and 3 cardiff trips and a fantastic 3 days in Germany in may 01 .

oh he had a fair old PR newspaper system set up from what I remember. yes we had some great days with him but he changed the style of football completely. gone was pass and move. we looked a better team when thommo took over for that spell

oh and he signed diouf and dioa

and defended diouf in spitting incident

After his heart trouble things were not the same.

Oh yes he did sign diouf no that was bad but I don't know about toxic, not like benitez but I suppose houllier goes in the history books as a nobody as was there anyone before benitez ? , but on a seriously note beating arsenal that day meant more that just winning the cup it meant breaking that arsenal jinks of 1950,1971 and the 1980 semi final games and the 1987 league cup final at last Liverpool had beaten them in a cup final

yeah but owen won that thing by himself.

Houllier has been my least favourite manager of all time. Apart from the UEFA cup it was a very dark era of miserable football, poor signings, passing the buck, and 'turning corners'.

Great player Owen

and the awful Hamann was the catalyst for that type of boring football of sideways and backwards, can't decide who was worse Hamann or that woeful Argie Mascherano.