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    #46
    Originally posted by Ben Tover View Post
    Its a fake. Jari Litmanen wouldn't talk in the third person, unless he was weird.
    It's not fake, but maybe he won't answer to everyone but I have played with him 25 years and over 25 kgs ago...

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      #47
      Originally posted by jpkokko View Post
      It's not fake, but maybe he won't answer to everyone but I have played with him 25 years and over 25 kgs ago...
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        #48
        Class wasn't he.

        [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S147UL96sAA"]Amazing Strikes by Marvelous Jari Litmanen - YouTube[/ame]

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          #49
          Originally posted by Lee View Post
          Class wasn't he.

          Amazing Strikes by Marvelous Jari Litmanen - YouTube

          Yep. Shame he wasn't used more by us in his all too brief time here. And he was a massive LFC fan.
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            #50
            "How good was Jari Litmanen?"

            Not very.
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              #51
              Alongside Dennis Bergkamp he was the best player on Sensible Soccer. Both could run the whole length of the pitch unchallenged and unleash amazing curling shots

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                #52
                He was ****ing class. Didn't play enough. I vividly remember his performance v City in the Cup. I was in the Upper Cent and had a great view of him orchestrating everything. We won 4-2 and Jari was taken off at half time but gave a totally masterful display.
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                  #53
                  I though Heskey / Owen was a really poor partnership. Heskey had one good season, where he played on the shoulder of defenders, and used his bulk to his advantage. But he had no real understanding with Owen, I have no idea why he sung his praises. Then he became ****, but he kept his place regardless of his performance as one of Houlliers favourites, and was undroppable

                  Litmanen would have been the perfect partner for Owen, as he would have provided through balls along the ground where he wanted it, whereas Heskey alway flicked it off in the opposite direction to Owen runs, or in the air where he could not reach it anyway.
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                    #54
                    I would have liked to have seen him play more in his time here.
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                      #55
                      Houllier, more than any manager, used to frustrate me with his team selections. Litmanen definitely should have got more game time. He was billed as the final piece of the jigsaw and was always being left out of the team.
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                      Then City scored and I screeched and this big bloke, a Liverpool supporter, made towards me and I thought he was going to throttle me. But he just pulled my scarf from under my coat so it lay on the outside, and said: "You should always be proud of your colours, lad."

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                        #56
                        Originally posted by jono View Post
                        Houllier, more than any manager, used to frustrate me with his team selections. Litmanen definitely should have got more game time. He was billed as the final piece of the jigsaw and was always being left out of the team.


                        Heskey as a winger?!!?

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                          #57
                          Wasn't Jari's issue under Houllier that he gave Heskey some advice in training which Houllier didn't like so pretty much marginalised him after that?

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                            #58
                            Sounds plausible to me. Houllier strikes me as a vain and insecure man.
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                              #59
                              I'm pretty sure I heard it somewhere. I wouldn't make up something as obscure as that but it's totally believable bearing in mind what Houllier was like towards the back-end of his managerial stint. Played some of the most boring/negative football I've ever seen. His stubborness knew no bounds

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                                #60
                                Litmanen was under used by Houllier but he was also pretty injury prone.
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