Harry Kewell

[Conrad]

He's announced his retirement at the end of the season

 

 

Cracking player, if he'd been fit and not been so mismanaged by Houllier playing him through injury, we'd have won the title. Imagine a fully fit Kewell ahead of either Benayoun or Riera in the 08-09 team.

 

We'd also have won the 2007 final with a fit HK in the team instead of Pennant, I'm sure of it

Edited March 26, 2014 by Heighway 61 Revisited

[Gunga Din]

pennant played well in the final of 2007. teh mistake there was not starting Crouch. Kewell was done when we got him. a bad buy

[Maldini]

Don't think he was done when he got him, he scored 16 the year before we got him and 11 in his first with us despite poor form in the second half of the season. He had some sort of chronic injury that we never fixed didn't he? It wasn't until Peter Brukner took over as doctor of the Aussie national team that he finally got it sorted.

[Earl Hafler]

pennant played well in the final of 2007. teh mistake there was not starting Crouch. Kewell was done when we got him. a bad buy

 

We won one game in twelve from January to May when Crouch didn't start that season.

 

f*** off Athens.

 

Happy retirement, Harry.

[Gilps]

Happy retirement Harry.

 

Can we please not talk about Athens?

[Benzo-13]

pennant played well in the final of 2007. teh mistake there was not starting Crouch. Kewell was done when we got him. a bad buy

He got a whack on the ankle pre-season which he played through on. By that December he had a cortisone jab which totally f***ed his groin up.

He had a calcification on it IIRC.

Weird that we all thought he'd go wide left and then GH inverted him on the right.

Good player just totally wrecked injury wise and usually flared at the worst of wrong times too.

[Nerik]

A fully-fit Kewell or Paddy Berger in the 08/09 side..............if only

[Barnesy_10]

always remember his goal against Everton at Anfield...

 

http://youtu.be/ZZ87_dLBpQ8

[FakeNewsBear]

Worked with him on a football show for Aussie TV around 2007 really nice guy enjoy retirement Harry

[whitewidow]

Spent the whole of my honeymoon in Canada (yes, not totally the whole of it but you know what I am driving at) looking for internet cafes to log on to this place to find out what the hell was happening about him signing.

 

He let me down.

[charlie clown]

Remember him scoring an absolute beauty from wide on the rght in a European fixture. I was sat more or less right behind where he hit it from and watched it all the way into the net.

[Ant]

I was 13 when he joined. I got a Kewell hair cut, a Kewell Liverpool top, and proper loved Harry Kewell for no reason other than he looked pretty hot in fairness *

 

*I'm not gay

[PhilM]

Spent a lads holiday in Tenerife looking in the internet cafe whenever I was sober to see if we signed him. Which to be fair was maybe...once.

 

Remember him playing a blinder against Chelsea. They played Geremi at right back and Kewell absolutely took him to bits.

[Conrad]

 

 

Remember him playing a blinder against Chelsea. They played Geremi at right back and Kewell absolutely took him to bits.

 

his debut wasn't it?

[stressederic]

Nah think that was the FA Cup semi final

[psl]

Nah think that was the FA Cup semi final

 

Yep, at Old Trafford when Garcia scored one of his beauties.

[Woodsyla]

Kewell was done when we got him. a bad buy

That's nonsense, Kewell was outstanding when he first started, never recovered from the succession of injuries he got, but his first 3 months were just wow.

 

Remember him going past John Terry as if he were stuck in mud, at first glance I thought it was Bridge as he made him look so slow, just breezed past him.

 

Terrific player in his day.

Edited March 26, 2014 by Woodsyla

[RP]

Great player on his day - shame they were all/mostly prior to him signing for us.

[abc]

He played through pain for us, I recall him saying he should have rested that ankle until it healed properly, in hindsight. Him and Houllier felt the team needed him even at 50% fitness/ability...

 

Problem is it never healed properly and led to worse injuries.

 

Let's not forget that he chose us, his boyhood club, ahead of Man Utd and other teams who apparently offered him more money.

[RP]

He played through pain for us, I recall him saying he should have rested that ankle until it healed properly, in hindsight. Him and Houllier felt the team needed him even at 50% fitness/ability...

 

Problem is it never healed properly and led to worse injuries.

 

Let's not forget that he chose us, his boyhood club, ahead of Man Utd and other teams who apparently offered him more money.

 

 

All that gets overplayed.

 

He loved to regain fitness when there was a medal on offer.

[Cobs]

He was brilliant in that SF v Chelsea at OT.

 

Shame he was rarely fit enough to replicate it.

[Benzo-13]

Great winner v Spurs one year (2006?). Quality volley.

[Ramón Benítez Hernández]

Typical Aussie. Chucked in a sickie most days.

 

I wouldn't call him a bad signing or a flop. Worth the gamble at the time for 5million quid.

[kop205]

He loved to regain fitness when there was a medal on offer.

 

I think that gets overstated too.

 

I think if anything Rafa was over-keen to have him in for the big games.

 

I remember Bascombe being particularly snide about him, I think after Istanbul, basically saying it was a disgrace he was on the bus for the victory parade, having a go at his missus and all sorts.

[Conrad]

I think that gets overstated too.

 

I think if anything Rafa was over-keen to have him in for the big games.

 

I remember Bascombe being particularly snide about him, I think after Istanbul, basically saying it was a disgrace he was on the bus for the victory parade, having a go at his missus and all sorts.

 

Yeah, Rafa played him half fit. It was worth the risk because he was still good enough even half fit.