Brad Friedel was brought in as competition to David James. In the first and possibly second season, Brad got a fair few games under his belt despite DJ not being injured: Friedel... James...
Well he never won the "competition" with David James, there have been plenty of understudies in the goalkeeping position at Anfield down the years but very rarely has the main man been ousted by a better keeper. http://www.lfchistory.net/Articles/Article/27
I wouldn't say either won. James played more in those first two years but then he was sold off whilst Friedel had one more season with us, therefore he out lasted James. That's all besides the point though, he wasn't signed as a back-up to James, he was signed as competition. If he'd been signed as back-up, he'd have hardly played.
He never "hardly played" 31 games in 3 seasons? And Westerveld(along with James)played most of the games during Brad's time at LFC, he was not as competitive for the first team slot as your memory thinks.
Your not reading what I'm saying. I never said he was competitive, I'm saying he was signed to be competitive. Intention and reality often don't match. My point about games is that a back-up rarely plays at all. See Brad Jones' record for evidence.
All "reserve" keepers that are brought in as backup are expected to be competitive. Some are more competitive than others.
most of game sin the 3 years came early... and i DISTINCTLY remember the utter tripe that james served up to let him get his chance. it was worse than minolget actually. hw was staying up all night playing video games. The more i see premier league years i look back in despair at the utd team where wen burce and pallister looked athletic comapred to our fat ****s. the total unprofessionalism of some of our lot was so obvious. if anyhting mcmanaman and redknapp in particular were badly let down by others around them.. fowler was a ****wit but e was fit and flying back in the day at least. I have to say our club did it to itself as we should have won more in the mid 90s after souness... but **** me we had some pile of dross. Freidal got in in 1997/98 season and played a bit. frankly he dropped a couple of clangers himself
They are obsessed with Gerrard's hairstyle at salford quays, mentioned it yesterday and again today. Gerrard's Liverpool career in stickers Football Posted at08:30 please log in to view this image BBC 17 seasons and only one haircut Steven Gerrard is one of the ultimate one-club players and as QPR's Joey Barton pointed out yesterday onTwitter, he has only had one haircut in all his time at Liverpool. it might be a boring haircut but its his own hair. Imagine if he had been as baldy as a as bobby charlton and paid to have someone else's cast off follicles stapled to his head? No footballer would be vain enough to do that though.
I bet if you looked for theirry henry career in strikers you won't find too many hairstyles across the years bar bald.
please log in to view this image not too many of him with hair But my god he is ugly. its it the accent that british women want to wet themsevles for or what.
Or Pegguy Arphexad's record, that takes some beating. The amount of medals won for the games he played for LFC must be up there with Owens games for Utd to win a premiership medal. 6 games played, 6 medals won!
And for the 3rd day on the trot salford quays are reporting on Gerrard's haircut. Gerrard bids farewell to Anfield Liverpool v Crystal Palace (17:30 BST) Posted at11:37 please log in to view this image BBC In 1998, a fresh-faced Steven Gerrard walked into a barber's shop as a promising Liverpool youngster and asked for a short back and sides. And, as these Merlin Premier League stickers chronicling Gerrard's career will attest, nothing has changed in the subsequent years. Number two in the barber's chair, number one in the heart of modern-day Liverpool fans.
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I had to put fresh grass seed in a patch in the back garden recently, its a different type of grass to what was already there and grows like its on steroids compared to the rest of the garden. I think wazza's having a similar problem on his head.
