Mark Wright

[robbielad9]

Seem to remember him having an outstanding euro-championship, or world cup, one time, playing as a sweeper ? Dont think he ever played the same position, or indeed as well, for us after that.Bit of a 1-tournament wonder.Not crap, but certainly not to be mentioned in the same breath as Hansen, Lawro or...............Traore.

[Johnny]

I thought he was very good TBH.

[mersey86]

I thought he was very good TBH.

Agreed. We brought in 4 fairly high-profile centre backs over a few years - Wright, Scales, Babb and Ruddock. Wright was far and away the pick, though he suffered a bit from injuries while at Anfield. At his best, commanding.

[Biff]

Quality defender - got better in his later years at Liverpool. Think Sami with pace.

[desertscouser]

I thought he was a very good centre back surrounded by a lot of cack. He also had the misfortune of playing in front of some very dodgy keepers. He would've been a great addition to the current squad of players.

[Howard_lfc]

Remember him picking the FA cup up at Wemberley after we beat Sunderland: he held the cup aloft and shouted "YOU ****IN' BEAUTY!!!".

I liked Mark Wright. I think he had a better attitude than a lot of the players he was playing with. He could play as well.

[Fan65]

An excellent centre back, played with passion & skill. A rafa style player.

[der_Fuchs]

I concur - very composed on the ball, liked to trick attackers and take the ball past them. Got better as he got older.

[Kaip]

Remember him picking the FA cup up at Wemberley after we beat Sunderland: he held the cup aloft and shouted "YOU ****IN' BEAUTY!!!".

hahahaha was gonna say the same, did'nt he say something about every year the fa cup winning captain lifting the trophy on the starting credits of grandstand but cause he swore they did'nt put it on

[Kopite_Colin]

He wasn't bad - but he was no Hughes, Thommo, Hansen, Lawrenson or Gillespie. Decent in the air. Think Ruddock without the pies.

[PLY]

A massively overrated player imho. We played Derby in his last year and Barnes and Beardsley ripped him a new one. His way of defending was to let his partner attck the ball while he sweeped up after him and got all the plaudits. As a result he would back off 5 yards and play every one else on side.

[Shaggy]

I remember him as a fine, fine centre half playing in a ****ing ****e team.

I was chuffed to bits when we signed him as he'd had an excellent Italia 90 and played some great stuff for Derby County who, at the time, were a pretty good side.

[calvoboy]

Excellent player, great in the air and could pass a ball too. He was probably slightly past his best by the time he signed for us though, and was playing in a **** team, as others have pointed out.

[Rowan]

Yeah, I seem to remember him achieving some degree of redemtion in the second half of his career with us. He was a class act and it was just a shame he was so injury prone (was it his back that kept going?)

I also remember him putting in a couple of shockers that led to him being banished from the first team with the rest of the high profile players that didn't quite work out. I'm sure one of yhe footy magazines I read as a kid (Match or Shoot) used to run a comic strip that was a sort of a take on The Great Escape, featuring our **** ups, called Escape from Stalag Anfield (or something) and the main characters were Dicks, Clough and Wright.

[RedProf]

Good player. Lost his way with us in his dodgy spell. Then was re-born under the Evans era and played excellently as one of 3 CBs.