18 Dec 2017 05:24:36
Hi ed001,

What is your opinion on Steve McMahon as a player? Would appreciate it. He is working as a pundit in Malaysia so I've always wondered how he was as a player. Never got the chance to see him play.

Thanks.

{Ed001's Note - McMahon was a very good player, but he was no Souness. He had bite and drive but bottled it against Wimbledon in the cup final, which is something Souness would never have done. That was the kind of match he would have dominated and taken charge of, while McMahon faded. He didn't have that absolute mastery of the game nor quite the passing range, but he was the closest thing we have had since.

He was a hard working, hard battling old school central mid, who could drive into the box and get back to protect the defence. His only real weakness, apart from bottling it against Wimbledon, was that he was a level down from Souness.}

1.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 06:11:48
Oh the '88 Cup Final Ed still bloody brings tears to my eyes mate.

{Ed001's Note - it was not a good moment and showed why LFC's time of dominance was coming to an end. Too many inferior players replacing the better ones.}

2.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 06:19:18
Remember that picture of Jones grabbing Gascoigne by the gonads? Well Souness would have had Jones by the throat😁.

{Ed001's Note - we really missed the likes of Souness and Case.}

3.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 06:56:50
As Ed001 said, Souness and Case were immense. I’ve had the privalige of meeting Jimmy Case and he’s a very nice bloke.

4.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 07:51:57
Case wasn’t a nice bloke on the pitch.

5.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 08:38:33
Harry, clearly you never watched Damien Plessis.

6.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 09:02:35
Plessis was a world class defensive midfielder. Xabi Alonso once got dropped for him on the opening day of the season, and Plessis also scored a towering header against Spurs in the League Cup.

He was a French Depp lying playmaker who Rafa once said would compete with Steven Gerrard in midfield. You'd have loved him!

Arguably better than Djimi Traore and Andriy Voronin. What a player was Damien Plessis 😂.

7.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 09:10:16
Hahaha Damien plessis yeah out the blue there that one up with David amoo.

8.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 11:41:56
David Amoo.
Millwall youngster moved up to Liverpool youth.
I know the guy that claims he took Amoo up to Liverpool.
Asked why he brags about that and he has never mentioned it since.

9.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 13:04:30
Plessis, as good as Jean Michel Ferri.

10.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 13:31:32
Ah! Damien Plessis, David Amoo, Jay Spearing and those good ol days!
Our academy has come such a long way since then.

11.) 18 Dec 2017
18 Dec 2017 19:46:08
And David Raven?