Oh my word. I cannot recognise Dirk now, he looks so different. He was a great player, very reliable, he gave everything for the shirt.
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A great player for us. He’s got better looking with age 
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He was a true workhorse. Remember how quickly he used to recover even from serious injuries.
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My sentiments exactly:heart_eyes:
. I was abit shy to say so. He should be on the cover of GQ magazine:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:.
I wonder what he is doing now. I would love to see him as an ambassador for the club.
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I think he was working in Dutch football with Feyenoord.
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I think he runs a Cancer Charity.
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Not having a go at you personally here, more a general rant, but I hate the way the word “great” is overused these days… and not just in football.
Dalglish. Liddell. Scott. Gerrard. Those were great players.
Dirk Kuyt was decent/good but nowhere near that level.
It’s like when commentators say “That’s a great effort!” as a shot sails into the car park. Gets right on my tits. 
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In fairness, all my other shots ended up hitting a corner flag, so that one was a great effort in comparisson 
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He was coaching a Feyenoord youth team but quit for personal reasons which he later revealed was divorcing his wife.
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He (Dirk Kuyt) wasn’t definitely great as far as talent is concerned. Accordingly, his individual accomplishments were modest too. But his commitment and perseverance can take him to a level which is, for me at least, great. May be it’s because I adore him and adore him because of those qualities (rather than vital statistics). He was the Milner of his time. Grafter, anonymous and vital.
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@cynicaloldgit , how about notable or important player. The amount balls he got off the opposition was huge.
Chill!
Mind you, my uni supervisor hated the word “nice”. I thought it was overused.
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He was very important!
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I would say they were generational players really, beyond great if anything.
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That’s a great post
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Hadn’t realised Seb Coates had become captain at Sporting. Made up for him, remember him scoring a great overhead kick against QPR I think? Liked him but maybe too slow.
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How shite is Sporting to have Coates As captain
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Gutting we lost that as it was a fantastic goal and it got buried in the fact we lost to QPR.
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Lucas aged well.
34 years of age, still an automatic starter for one of Italy’s EU teams.
Not a lot of oscillations since his rise in early 10’s (probably played the football of his career just before he got that injury Chelsea away in 11/12). What you see is what you get.
Happy for him.
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Inspired by the news of Lennon’s resignation at Celtic I just took a look at the SPL table… had no idea Rangers were so far ahead of everyone else this season. 30 games played, 0 defeats and only 9 goals conceded. +64 goal difference.
As poor as Scottish football is, that’s still a bit nuts for a team that was only promoted a few seasons ago.
Is Gerrard actually shaping up to be a good manager? Is it possible to tell, with him being in the SPL?
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We won’t know until he takes over at Leicester… 
Joking aside, they are walking the league but I think his team aren’t very good in terms of individual quality and are a bit chaotic in Europe but Stevie seems to have instilled proper battling mentality in their minds. I liked his overall conduct and body language in this podcast:
If he’s as driven to succeed as a manager as he was when he was a player… That should be something to watch. I know that everyone sees him as a future Liverpool manager but I hope he attains enough experience before that might happen. By Inglethorpe’s logic, if a young player usually needs 150 games under his belt before he’s considered for Klopp’s Liverpool, then a Liverpool manager should ideally have seven to ten seasons of experience, preferably with major trophies won and with frequent Champions League participation as well. That’s not enough to define a successful manager but it does buy them time and respect in media.
I assume Stevie will stick around for another two or three years, to have a taste of the league title, CL football, to try to defend the title as well. After that, I don’t know, the next manager of Dortmund?
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