Why the hate for Robbie Fowler?

Not a great reflection on Fowler that he lost his place to a 35 year old Andy Cole.

He's another who is not everyone's favourite on here - however at least there were goals during his brief time. Once he was crocked for the season and Fowler gone, that was when the goal drought really began - a season and a half.
 
His autobiography is very good with a few digs at certain rag players around the england scene if I remember correctly, he was very honest about his time at city and I don't believe he wasn't trying, he just wasn't the same footballer anymore

After I read it my impression of him was of a pretty sound bloke, good book for those that haven't read it
 
Thaksinssoldier said:
I know a lad who was sat in the airport the day after we won our first title. He was minding his own business when someone approached him and asked if they could join him for a few mins. He looked up and saw Robbie Fowler there. Robbie sat with him for about a half hour and wanted to ask him loads about the day our fans just had. He said he was genuinely made up that City fans finally got a taste of glory and said that if one set of fans deserved a day like that it was us. Apparently he was genuinely giddy over what happened the day before and just wanted to talk to City fans.

My opinion of Robbie went way,way up after hearing that.

I always think he is unfortunate as he was doing well for us but then got lumped in the same bracket as MacMinimum once he turned up.
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I imagine he was more please for the scousers that the rags didn't win another title although i'm sure he had a soft spot for us having seen the shit we had to put up with

I actually don't remember him doing anything special for the team and thinking wow what a player, it was more right place right to put the ball in the back of the net and he did have a sweet left peg.

Still hate him though
 
Probably not remembered too affectionately for the same reason Nigel Clough isn't - had class and ability, took the money but never really wanted to put a shift in always wanting play to come to them.
 
The Fat el Hombre said:
A leech who couldn't be arsed to get fit because he didn't give a flying fuck about City. Bernstein was right
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5 pages of comments and you've hit the nail on the head! Cant stand him and the only ever City player who had to be put on a 'special fitness regime'. And the reason he missed 'that' penalty was that he was absolutely knackered.
 
I don't "hate" the guy as well I've never met him and he doesn't seem to put himself across as a twat in society as far as I'm aware.
However I do feel he was a "victim" ;) of his own hype, as he looked decent at Liverpool.
At city his fitness didn't seem at it's peak, so little things like first touch and so on started to evade him.
He wasn't awful, just wasn't as good as he used to be.

He'd be nowhere near our starting 11 now (even in his prime) but the times were different.

Also apart of this hype was the "english disease" in that if Fowler was foreign he would of been classed as a 7/10 player by the mainstream media
but because he was English whenever he played ok he was classed as a 9/10.
Foreigner = average
English = worldclass.

Example in 2015 being Wooney
 
Why Always Ste said:
He'd be nowhere near our starting 11 now (even in his prime) but the times were different.

Also apart of this hype was the "english disease" in that if Fowler was foreign he would of been classed as a 7/10 player by the mainstream media
but because he was English whenever he played ok he was classed as a 9/10.
Foreigner = average
English = worldclass.

Example in 2015 being Wooney
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Only because he'd have Kun ahead of him. He was mustard in his prime - miles better than 7/10.
 
Feed the Elk said:
I hated him with a passion. He was the beginning of the end for KK who claimed that he asked anelka which player he would most like to play up front with and apparently he claimed it was blobby fowler.
He missed that pen
He was overweight
His footballing skill had left him and he never looked bothered
He was on a high salary at a time when we were potless
He's a scouser
But mainly coz his heart wasn't in it and countless times the ball would just bounce off him. He was like a poor man's bernado corradi (apologies bernado if you're reading this)
He wasn't known as mr blobby fowler for nowt
Etc etc

My most hated city player
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Is the correct answer.
 
Why Always Ste said:
I don't "hate" the guy as well I've never met him and he doesn't seem to put himself across as a twat in society as far as I'm aware.
However I do feel he was a "victim" ;) of his own hype, as he looked decent at Liverpool.
At city his fitness didn't seem at it's peak, so little things like first touch and so on started to evade him.
He wasn't awful, just wasn't as good as he used to be.

He'd be nowhere near our starting 11 now (even in his prime) but the times were different.

Also apart of this hype was the "english disease" in that if Fowler was foreign he would of been classed as a 7/10 player by the mainstream media
but because he was English whenever he played ok he was classed as a 9/10.
Foreigner = average
English = worldclass.

Example in 2015 being Wooney
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He was a better finisher than Owen and Rooney. The only players of the current game that could compete with him for one touch finishing is Villa or Falcao, granted Falcao's turned utter fucking turd but the point stands.
 
Paul Lake's Left Knee said:
Was chatting about Pearce's second season in another thread at the weekend, many blues gave up because of that soulless year, many more came very close to giving up (I nearly did). We were always entertaining, in one way or another, but the nothingness of that season, left a scar for many, I still dont know how so many of us endured it looking back.
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I have to say that was the singularly worst season I ever endured. Awful football, terrible tactics. How the hell did we stay up?
 
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Ha. Penalty miss aside, it was a strange decision when we signed him. KK wanted him, Bernstein didn't, which ultimately led to Bernstein resigning.

The whole club was a mess in those days. I thought we were progressing at the time, signing players like Anelka for millions and doing quite well in our first season back in the Premier League under KK, especially after the way we had won the league the year before. What a delight the football was that season.

When Fowler signed, it was, or so I recall, an age before he scored his first goal, and I remember reading at the time he didn't think he would ever win the City fans over because he was a scouser. I remember us wanting him to score. When he finally did, and it was a good while, the relief all round Maine Road was palpable.

Yes, he did say after he returned to Liverpool he was going to work hard and get himself back to full fitness, but he didn't pull up trees at Anfield either.

He was knackered after too many injuries. He hadn't sparkled at Leeds before he joined us, likewise at City, and Liverpool after he left us.

He tried as hard as he could, but his body just wouldn't allow it, which must have been as frustrating for him as it was us.

I remember going to Blackburn not long after we signed him and he had everyones support, we were urging him on as much as we could. He didn't score, but we knew he was trying.

He did as well as he could for us, and I don't recall any particular dislike or hatred from the fans at the time.
 
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