Robbie Fowler, the Toxteth Terror, was lucky to have amazing skills - but unlucky because when he made his breakthrough into the team that he loved so much, Liverpool's stranglehold on English football had come to an end. Due to bad decisions by the board and management, Fowler never got to win the League with his beloved club.

When Fowler burst onto the football scene in 1993, he was an instant success, scoring on his debut against Fulham in the League Cup and in the return leg showed what was to come by netting all five goals in a decisive win. Fowler has plenty of records to his name, including the fastest hat-trick in Premiership history - four minutes and 33 seconds against Arsenal, at the time renowned for their stingy defence.

He earned the nickname "God" from his early days playing in front of the Kop; he scored over 30 goals in each of his first three seasons, and it was the quality of these goals that will always endear him to the Anfield faithful.

Fowler was simply born on the wrong continent. If he had come out of the slums of Sao Paulo and his name had been Kakadinho, the whole world would be worshipping his early goals as the best ever scored. Instead, he has always been labelled as the Spiceboy from Toxteth who made good. If people think it's crazy to compare him to the greats of South American football they should look at clips of Fowler's early exploits. At only 18, he was not just scoring but putting the ball away with aplomb and with a confidence that a lot of the players that we today regard as the best can only dream of.

The natural-born finisher was never the same after his knee ligament injury in 1998; gone was the predatory instinct and the legs that had left opposing defences bewildered. But more importantly, also missing was the Scouse confidence in an ability that reassured the Kop that he could truly walk on water.

His first exit from Anfield was a disgrace; the way Gerard Houlier manoeuvred him out should haunt the French manager. Fowler deserved better than that. He never got a chance to say goodbye to the Anfield faithful. The interview that Fowler gave at the time sums up the relationship between him and Liverpool. The reporter tried to get Robbie to say something bad about his departure, but he replied: "You will never hear me bad-mouth anything about Liverpool Football Club."

And he was true to his word, despite the injustice that had been done against him. This is a guy who sat in the Ataturk stadium in Istanbul and watched his team, knowing he should have been playing in one of the greatest games of football. This sums up the greatness of the man.

His return to Anfield was a fairytale, and although he didn't get a goal against Charlton in his the last league game, perhaps there is another chapter to be written. I will be watching Rafa Benitez's starting 11 in Athens and if God is on the bench, who would bet against him fulfilling his destiny to win glory for himself and the club whose history have become so intertwined.

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