Robbie Fowler (Striker)
Date of birth: 9/4/75
Squad number: 9
Height: 5'11" (1.80m)
Weight: 11st 7lb (73kg)
Characteristics: Prolific and reliable goalscorer, a.k.a. "god"
Former clubs: Trainee
Birth Place: Toxteth
Striker Robbie Fowler burst onto the Anfield scene in September 1993
when he scored all five goals against Fulham in a League Cup match. He had previously
made his debut in the first leg of the match which Liverpool won 3-1 and Fowler
was on the score sheet. Subsequently the Liverpool born front man made a name for himself as
the best finisher in English football.
Having scored eighteen league goals in his debut season, he then became the first Liverpool player for six years to pass the thirty goal
mark the following year. He repeated that amazing feat in season 1995-96, during which time he made his much anticipated England
debut against Croatia.
He passed the thirty goal mark for the third consecutive season the following year which led to many pundits
predicting he would go on to break all the goalscoring records. Disappointment wasn't too far away
though and a knee injury against Everton in the 1998/99 season sidelined him for many months, although his rehabilitation was
completed well ahead of medical estimates.
The 1998/99 season was a mixed one for Fowler with his eighteen goals
being largely overshadowed by events off the field which led him to sit out a six match ban at the end of the campaign. Having put pen to
paper on a new Anfield deal, and having distanced himself from speculation he could be on his way out of Anfield, Fowler seemed ready,
willing and able to silence his critics with another goal feast during the 1999/2000 season.
The manager showed great confidence and faith in Fowler by sticking by him through the bad times of the 1998/99 season and then
appointing him vice captain of the side. A wiser and more mature Robbie Fowler then expressed his desire to let his football do the talking - a
proposition to terrify opposing defences. However, a series of injury problems culminating in an operation to remove a spur on his ankle bone
at the start of the 1999/2000 season were to give those defences some brief respite.
Fowler Celebrates:
pics donated by John Booth