We absolutely did not look like qualifying for the 2010 World Cup until he got back into the starting line with IIRC 4 games left. We then looked dangerous and competitive again. I cannot give any greater praise.
DiNozzoNor Hahahahaga come on don't be harsh on him. The point of the entire video was pointing out the fact that there's more to a striker than goals alone.
People who don’t rate Heskey don’t understand football. Look at the likes of Darren Bent, James Beattie etc who’s careers spiralled and they played lower down the leagues or stopped scoring goals. Heskey played at the top level for a long time and if it wasn’t for KSI and being picked at the 2010 World Cup which wasn’t his fault, he’d be appreciated more.
You guys have just become my favourite football channel today. This is world, world class. He does not deserve the level of stick he gets! Thank you so much for this Tifo.
I’ll never forget the final game of the 2006/07 season, where he had to play centre back against Sheffield United after we went down to 10 men. And actually did really well. Probably the best illustration of his ability really. May not have been prolific, but you asked him to fill a role and he’d do it.
Shame for Heskey, younger fans will always see him as meme, if simply looking at his goals to games stats (a younger friend of mine described him as the 90's Carlton Cole). His position and style of play has now become redundant due to the advancement of the game, but he was players player and truly brought the best out of Owen in his Ballon Dor season!
Heskey was a professional footballer for 22 years. That's impressive, he scored over 100 goals, won many trophies and is Very wealthy. He's many things but a laughing stock he is not.
Perhaps if he played in the age of (relatively) mainstream statistics, he'd be less of a laughing stock; I'd imagine his aerial duels and xA would have been above the average target man of his era.
Great team player as you pointed out. If anything he was too nice and selfless. Had he adopted a Ronaldo type mentality he definately would've scored more goals.
Heskey was a legend because he scored over 150+ goals. If he was a bad player he wouldn’t score a lot of goals. He also scored 22 goals for Liverpool. Helped struggling Leicester also. Overall he was a good player and he is very underrated, deserves more credit than he gets.
No shit mate! When we say Heskey is shit we don't mean that we can play better than him, he is a professional footballer after all. Its his JOB. Heskey is however shit in comparison to other top flight players. SO you're point is basically just common sense. So, good job for pointing out the obvious mate.
Ever since the cretin, KSI really cemented Heskey as a joke among the FIFA and casual crowd, I've defended Heskey to anyone who'd listen. I'm a Liverpool fan, and his first 2 and a bit years at Anfield were very much a success. Then Owen started picking up injuries for fun. A young Gerrard was still finding consistency in his game. And.. we signed fucking Diouf instead of Anelka, latter, every Red I knew at the time wanted instead given his successful loan. Heskey in the MON Leicester sides and again, the first couple of seasons at Liverpool was a nightmare for opposing players. Near unplayable at times, and capable of scoring some ridiculous goals (UA-cam it!). Unfortunately Houiller around 2003 started randomly playing him as a winger basically, and his Liverpool career nosedived. Goals dried up big time. In short, he was shafted given his ability and Hou's decision. I can't comment on Brum too much, but I do remember him and Rodegella (sp) being very good together for Wigan. The guy deserves better from fans, particularly some Liverpool fans still, and England fans for all he did. Tbf, he deserves better from football fans in general, but thanks to KSI, that may never happened until his final breath. And given the moronic nature of social media generation fan certainly, he'll still get ridicule. As pointed out in the vid, Owen & Rooney all loved playing just off him and performed at their best then.
Spot on! Really glad you mentioned MON's Leicester in there as well. Ask Cottee, Claridge, Owen, Rooney etc. what they think of Heskey and they'll have nothing but praise for him.
As a Wigan fan, I whole-heartedly agree - the only discrepancy being that Heskey departed Wigan in the same transfer window that the club signed Rodallega (Jan 09). Heskey's most successful attacking partnerships whilst at the club probably came with the likes of Henri Camara, Amr Zaki and Antonio Valencia.
To be honest, he is being trolled for missing absolute sitters at times and not because of his goalscoring abilities. Everyone including KSI knew he was a good player, but his misses were so horrible at times.
Yeah yeah just like how people trolled Higuain for missing sitters when playing for Argentina. But wait, the same people who trolled Higuain would actively defended Messi's penalty misses against Chile in 2016 (which demoralised the whole team) and his lack of inspiration in a painful defeat to France in 2018. tl;dr : majority of football fans are immature hypocrite
Great video, as usual. Do one on Michael Owen, and how good he was when he was young. I don't think he gets enough credit because his career didn't go as well as everyone thought it would because of his injury, but he did win the BDO in an are of Henry, Ronaldo and Zidane.
He’s always the best player in the manager eyes, Liverpool always have that kind of players who works hard around the tactics deployed. (Kuyt, McAteer, Firmino) A legend at anfield!
array s yes true but I was not really referring the position of the striker but more as the players around the attacking options like supporting the attack around the box. Emile may play as a striker but really he’s the link from defending to attacking.
To this day I can still remember this one moment, when my opinion forever changed on him. Like many especially when young, your favourite player is the one that scores. If they don't score, they are poop, play somebody else. Then came this one game, I can't remember which but it was an England game and I can see this moment quite clearly in my mind... ...the ball was hoofed long, possibly equal part defensive clearance as well as pass... it was heading towards Heskey and then, he did the unbelievable, he turned his head away from the ball, took his eyes off the ball!!!.... to look upfield, he then turned his head back towards the ball and headed the ball beautifully to Owen, who slotted it away easily.... ... and I was stunned, up until that point, childish me had just assumed he had no confidence, hence why he never scored, how wrong I was, that moment showed me he had complete confidence in himself, and unlike some, he acknowledged his limits and instead thrived on his other skills.
Every footballer deserves respect, we are talking about human beings Except Neymar, I still want the half and hour he spend on the ground at the WC back
Aryan Dewan Heskey says "Hi Fernando, I won a treble with Liverpool" Torres says "That's amazing but you're still shit" Heskey says "OK keep telling yourself that, Fernando. Tell me, what trophies did you win at Liverpool" Fernando says "well erm, well I nearly won the Premier League" Heskey says "nearly isn't good enough, Fernando, you couldn't even win the league cup with Liverpool, call yourself a legend, pfft, there is only one Liverpool legend in this conversation, now leave me to kiss my Winners medals, loser."
My favourite Heskey fact was that he was named after famous French sociologist Emile Durkheim. His brother was named Revelino Heskey after the Brazil 1970's hero but didn't become a footballer.
It’s quite ridiculous if Heskey has become a joke figure! He is most underrated nowadays! Owen loved playing with him - all the England players of that era praise him highly! One of the best at holding the ball up, so strong, good in the air, hard worker, two good feet, could see a pass etc etc and he defo could finish! England had an excellent record when he started, as did Owen! It’s not all about goals! Heskey was a team player and made the overall team very good indeed! These kids mocking him haven’t a clue - what’s more is he was a real man as well, no fuss, no tantrums, no diving, no ego - a proper respectful gent, the kind of guy you’d want next to you in the trenches! Heskey is an England legend!
Playing 2 strikers up front has been obsolete for almost 20 years, hence why a player like Heskey was basically redundant in the modern game and why we were such a laughing stock in the 2010 world cup
Heskey was the perfect target man: A tactical forward who's job isn't necessarily to score loads of goals, but receive high and long balls, dominate in the air and hold the ball up while the rest of the team transition forward.
I think the even Heskey scored was more about him being the set up man to Owen and to try and wind up German fans. The fact that his career went downhill stat wise after that first year at Liverpool show he wasn't really that great.
When Heskey broke through at Leicester, he looked unstoppable. Quick, powerful and fearless. But something happened to him when he moved to Liverpool, I'm not sure if it was injury related or tactical. But he seemed to lose that fearlessness. Instead of powering through challenges and barreling towards goal he would go down to win free kicks at every opportunity. He seemed to lose the electric pace and acceleration that made him so dangerous in his teens. Despite that he had a superb career. But honestly as a teenager he looked like he would become one of the best players in the world.
weird comparison but i see a lot of what made Heskey great in Che Adams for Southampton. Great physicality and strength as well as really good finish and fantastic hold up play. For us he's the ideal all round partner to Ings who is less rounded but more lethal goalscorer
In his days at Leicester, Liverpool and his first season or so at Birmingham, he could occasionally run in behind where his power and strength were utilised in another way. He adapted his game when he was 29/30 to become a pure target man which hampered his scoring (which was never particularly prolific) but prolonged his career as he always gave sides that played a particular style of football a good option. Amazing how a season before he left Leicester, they had prepared themselves with an almighty prolific strikeforce in record signing Ade Akinbiyi and journeyman Trevor Benjamin. Oh dear....
Akinbiyi was signed by Peter Taylor after Heskey had left. In theory he wasn't a bad replacement as he had similar physical attributes to Heskey and had a decent goals return in the second tier. However, he turned out to be absolutely horrendous.
Can you guys please do an episode or podcast on Mario Mandzukic?! Your content is great and hes probably Europe's most underrated striker! Not sure if you'll see this comment but would be SO appreciated and interesting
It's strange that people expect Heskey to have scored 22 every season when his role and the team around him changed significantly during his time at Liverpool. For example, he'd barely play with Barmby or Babbel ever again, McAllister and Berger were only there for one more full season and by 02-03 he was playing mostly on the left of midfield.
Heskey was a beast at Liverpool around 2000-2001. The problem is, football changed, became faster and more tactical, and Heskey didn't adopt to the changes.
I think the game developer just love to make him useless. Learn that from experienced No lie, i championship manager 03/04, as liverpool manager and pair owen and heskey upfront. We won the league with owen score 30 and heskey 4. He just suck at the game, eeverytime its one on one he always just pass it to the keeper. That's not all, 2 times this happen; keeper already out of his position and heskey still miss wtf?? But wait, threres more, one penalty shootout against arsenal. Adriano the striker need to be put as gk bcos lehmann injured. The game goes to shootout and guess who's the only one who got his penalty saved by adriano??
I Many people didn't see your talent...But I did.. Its like where would batmen be without robben, Michael Jordon without Pippen etc.. I appreciate you and I say Thank you for everything you done at Liverpool!
Under rated on club level mostly, in a way how capello used him around 2008 until the world cup I believe he was an his best, unfortunately England defence were a shambles.
You should do a video on the Newcastle jets, they have a had an absolute amazing season and the improvement from the last season that is out of this world.
Jesse Hernandez The poor lad was ridiculed even more than Heskey. At least I knew about Heskey up until his retirement. Never heard about Green after the world cup.
He made space for them. Messed up the cohesion of defences. Defenders found him and his strength on the ball difficult to deal with and he won a lot of free kicks. Totally unselfish team player. He was adept as a target man, winning aerial balls and moving them on to his strike partner.
Watched his 100 goals club like this guy is sooo underrated. He was doing all sorts of things tap ins dribbles volleys everything. And that was just the goals.
How would you describe Heskey's career?
(joe) devine
We absolutely did not look like qualifying for the 2010 World Cup until he got back into the starting line with IIRC 4 games left. We then looked dangerous and competitive again. I cannot give any greater praise.
Being from the US I appreciate this channel and learning about under the radar players.
He's one of the greatest lord in football.
Tifo Football you lot are doing a brief history of heskey yet you haven’t done one on Cristiano Ronaldo
His reputation with younger football fans certainly wasn't helped by KSI
Alex Soundias KSI is a clown
KSI roasted the shit out of him
KSI and his 8 year olds army ...
Heskey has the skills...to pay the BILLZ
Skikdimtchallagh That was before the 8 year olds , a simpler time
SOMEONE SEND HIM THIS VIDEO so that he'll know, that in the end, he truly is appreciated.
Oussama Berrada he’d miss the link aswell though
DiNozzoNor
Hahahahaga come on don't be harsh on him. The point of the entire video was pointing out the fact that there's more to a striker than goals alone.
Oussama Berrada I know, I’m just trying to be funny
DiNozzoNor
Well yea, I giggled a bit hahahahaha.
But I just wanted to make sure, my bad :-)
Oussama Berrada no problem, hahah!
Cheers guys 👍🏿✊🏿
We got you
Emile Heskey pffffffffffft Heskey 😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😂😭😭😂😂😂😂
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hello
NostalgiNorden no shit Sherlock
Heskey has the skill, to pay the bill
he’s amazing at free kicks
He can even score SWEATY GOALS
What are you waiting for?
Ben Van Denten GET HEM NOOOOOOOW
😂😂😂😂
It's sad to think that a lot of people only know Heskey through KSI
*Heskey
Defuq is this KSI?
NostalgiNorden shut up you idiot
Including me lmao
@@NostalgiNorden a UA-camr
People who don’t rate Heskey don’t understand football. Look at the likes of Darren Bent, James Beattie etc who’s careers spiralled and they played lower down the leagues or stopped scoring goals. Heskey played at the top level for a long time and if it wasn’t for KSI and being picked at the 2010 World Cup which wasn’t his fault, he’d be appreciated more.
array s Whatever helps you sleep at night la
What the fuck is KSI?
NostalgiNorden a youtuber
Heskey was a very smart striker. He didn't have to score much. He set up alot of goals for Michael Owen
@@jindermahal8644like the video said heskey was shit traditionally
You guys have just become my favourite football channel today. This is world, world class. He does not deserve the level of stick he gets! Thank you so much for this Tifo.
Legend. Thank you so much for your support!
I’ll never forget the final game of the 2006/07 season, where he had to play centre back against Sheffield United after we went down to 10 men. And actually did really well.
Probably the best illustration of his ability really. May not have been prolific, but you asked him to fill a role and he’d do it.
#teamplayer
He was everywhere in that game.
He also played in 4 positions in one game for Aston Villa. Started as a forward and finished the match as a leftback.
Martin O’Neill played him as a left wing back some games for Leicester. He was excellent in those matches.
He was James Milner before James Milner was James Milner, lol
Shame for Heskey, younger fans will always see him as meme, if simply looking at his goals to games stats (a younger friend of mine described him as the 90's Carlton Cole). His position and style of play has now become redundant due to the advancement of the game, but he was players player and truly brought the best out of Owen in his Ballon Dor season!
@array s you've been commenting on this video for the past year 😂
Heskey was a professional footballer for 22 years. That's impressive, he scored over 100 goals, won many trophies and is Very wealthy. He's many things but a laughing stock he is not.
Perhaps if he played in the age of (relatively) mainstream statistics, he'd be less of a laughing stock; I'd imagine his aerial duels and xA would have been above the average target man of his era.
Great point!
@@Tifo Just saw your video on the resurgence of the target man before this. I think he would be fantastic and fit in most teams if he played today.
Great team player as you pointed out. If anything he was too nice and selfless. Had he adopted a Ronaldo type mentality he definately would've scored more goals.
Heskey was a legend because he scored over 150+ goals. If he was a bad player he wouldn’t score a lot of goals. He also scored 22 goals for Liverpool. Helped struggling Leicester also. Overall he was a good player and he is very underrated, deserves more credit than he gets.
ye 150+ goals.............
in 500+ games
wubsers yeah and as a Striker
Graham Aker he’s basically a false 9 though.
Try to score 150 in sunday league first, then comeback and talk.
Lol well actually he play as LW sometimes
Yes! Really winds me up when people fail to realise how good people that play at the top level have to be.
It's not just luck!
Totally! I've played with 8th tier players who seem like Messi compared to my Sunday league standard.
No shit mate! When we say Heskey is shit we don't mean that we can play better than him, he is a professional footballer after all. Its his JOB. Heskey is however shit in comparison to other top flight players. SO you're point is basically just common sense. So, good job for pointing out the obvious mate.
barriot14 he wasnt always bad but you’re right
barriot14 Heskey was a good player at any level. It’s basically like calling someone like rabiot or atal shit.
Bendtner next?
Gamefanatic nope better bergkamp
He's been banging them in for Rosenberg.
Lord bendtner too good for this channel brah... LOL
lingard
There is a bendtner myth going round but for the ones he missed he scored against big clubs as well
Ever since the cretin, KSI really cemented Heskey as a joke among the FIFA and casual crowd, I've defended Heskey to anyone who'd listen. I'm a Liverpool fan, and his first 2 and a bit years at Anfield were very much a success. Then Owen started picking up injuries for fun. A young Gerrard was still finding consistency in his game. And.. we signed fucking Diouf instead of Anelka, latter, every Red I knew at the time wanted instead given his successful loan.
Heskey in the MON Leicester sides and again, the first couple of seasons at Liverpool was a nightmare for opposing players. Near unplayable at times, and capable of scoring some ridiculous goals (UA-cam it!).
Unfortunately Houiller around 2003 started randomly playing him as a winger basically, and his Liverpool career nosedived. Goals dried up big time. In short, he was shafted given his ability and Hou's decision. I can't comment on Brum too much, but I do remember him and Rodegella (sp) being very good together for Wigan.
The guy deserves better from fans, particularly some Liverpool fans still, and England fans for all he did. Tbf, he deserves better from football fans in general, but thanks to KSI, that may never happened until his final breath. And given the moronic nature of social media generation fan certainly, he'll still get ridicule. As pointed out in the vid, Owen & Rooney all loved playing just off him and performed at their best then.
Spot on! Really glad you mentioned MON's Leicester in there as well. Ask Cottee, Claridge, Owen, Rooney etc. what they think of Heskey and they'll have nothing but praise for him.
As a Wigan fan, I whole-heartedly agree - the only discrepancy being that Heskey departed Wigan in the same transfer window that the club signed Rodallega (Jan 09). Heskey's most successful attacking partnerships whilst at the club probably came with the likes of Henri Camara, Amr Zaki and Antonio Valencia.
I'm a liverpool fan but heskey is not good he. was a donkey and couldn't play in top flight teams. he should have stuck to smaller teams
wubsers he did well alongside Michael Owen for England and Liverpool
who or what is ksi ?
To be honest, he is being trolled for missing absolute sitters at times and not because of his goalscoring abilities. Everyone including KSI knew he was a good player, but his misses were so horrible at times.
Adithya Prasad true i always know he is a great player. But it still fun to make jokes about him.
What is KSI?
@@hentaihalandlarsen7003 Pathetic little shit.
@@Abhi-lf1un and they were also made fun of, especially in football meme pages in facebook
Yeah yeah just like how people trolled Higuain for missing sitters when playing for Argentina.
But wait, the same people who trolled Higuain would actively defended Messi's penalty misses against Chile in 2016 (which demoralised the whole team) and his lack of inspiration in a painful defeat to France in 2018.
tl;dr : majority of football fans are immature hypocrite
Great video, as usual. Do one on Michael Owen, and how good he was when he was young. I don't think he gets enough credit because his career didn't go as well as everyone thought it would because of his injury, but he did win the BDO in an are of Henry, Ronaldo and Zidane.
He’s always the best player in the manager eyes, Liverpool always have that kind of players who works hard around the tactics deployed.
(Kuyt, McAteer, Firmino)
A legend at anfield!
array s yes true but I was not really referring the position of the striker but more as the players around the attacking options like supporting the attack around the box. Emile may play as a striker but really he’s the link from defending to attacking.
As a Wigan fan, I love Heskey. Underrated AF
Was class with you lot
Your absolutely fucking right.
Iron Bear Milk he’s shit
LucasWR silent just like Liverpool fans vs wolves
To this day I can still remember this one moment, when my opinion forever changed on him.
Like many especially when young, your favourite player is the one that scores. If they don't score, they are poop, play somebody else.
Then came this one game, I can't remember which but it was an England game and I can see this moment quite clearly in my mind...
...the ball was hoofed long, possibly equal part defensive clearance as well as pass... it was heading towards Heskey and then, he did the unbelievable, he turned his head away from the ball, took his eyes off the ball!!!.... to look upfield, he then turned his head back towards the ball and headed the ball beautifully to Owen, who slotted it away easily....
... and I was stunned, up until that point, childish me had just assumed he had no confidence, hence why he never scored, how wrong I was, that moment showed me he had complete confidence in himself, and unlike some, he acknowledged his limits and instead thrived on his other skills.
Heskey was brilliant for Liverpool, anyone that doesn’t appreciate him is either too young or hasn’t played football.
As an American starting to get into the sport it’s nice to see you guys showing the true value of less heralded players.
Thank you sir. We try to cover a wide spectrum of topics and players
Bruh you watch the mls?
Absolute LORD! 🙏 👑
Heskey is the English Lukaku, very good and talented player who doesn’t get anywhere near the amount of shit he gets...
Every footballer deserves respect, we are talking about human beings
Except Neymar, I still want the half and hour he spend on the ground at the WC back
Agreed!
Is Lukaku turning to be the new Heskey
Really glad for this video, always thought heskey got a raw deal from the fans.
He was an England fan favourite towards the end - worked hard for the team.
Made more of a positive impact at Liverpool than Torres did.
👄👻😽👣
Aryan Dewan
Heskey says "Hi Fernando, I won a treble with Liverpool"
Torres says "That's amazing but you're still shit"
Heskey says "OK keep telling yourself that, Fernando. Tell me, what trophies did you win at Liverpool"
Fernando says "well erm, well I nearly won the Premier League"
Heskey says "nearly isn't good enough, Fernando, you couldn't even win the league cup with Liverpool, call yourself a legend, pfft, there is only one Liverpool legend in this conversation, now leave me to kiss my Winners medals, loser."
just saw a half hour programme on all of his 100+ prem goals on sky sports, what a tank
Are you struggling to score SWEATY GOALS?
are you crap at skills
DO YOU NEED A BLACK MAN IN YOUR TEAM
Emile huskey, the chuck norris of football, he got so many talents to easily drop your jaw
The way he dribbles down the sideline and looks likely to score then steps over but falls over and misses the goal
Blame KSI ._.
What?
NostalgiNorden Shut the fuck up
@@NostalgiNorden shut up u mug
The GOAT
The chuck norris of football
My favourite Heskey fact was that he was named after famous French sociologist Emile Durkheim. His brother was named Revelino Heskey after the Brazil 1970's hero but didn't become a footballer.
This is like the School of Life but football.
a true Lord
As if ksi ruined his career 😂😂😂😂
Imagine having such a strong, fast, and smart striker in this current england side...
At his peak he played like a inform Lukaku but with a much better first touch
It’s quite ridiculous if Heskey has become a joke figure! He is most underrated nowadays! Owen loved playing with him - all the England players of that era praise him highly! One of the best at holding the ball up, so strong, good in the air, hard worker, two good feet, could see a pass etc etc and he defo could finish! England had an excellent record when he started, as did Owen! It’s not all about goals! Heskey was a team player and made the overall team very good indeed! These kids mocking him haven’t a clue - what’s more is he was a real man as well, no fuss, no tantrums, no diving, no ego - a proper respectful gent, the kind of guy you’d want next to you in the trenches! Heskey is an England legend!
Playing 2 strikers up front has been obsolete for almost 20 years, hence why a player like Heskey was basically redundant in the modern game and why we were such a laughing stock in the 2010 world cup
Fucking hell.. He made millions for kicking a ball around a pitch badly how anyone who's actually worked a day in there lives feel sorry for him hahah
Heskey's total club career: 130 goals
Rogérigo Ceni (São Paulo gk): 131
You know whats crazy? all these dumb KSI comments from kids.
At freaking long last! A Emile Heskey video, what took you guys so long?
We wanted to build anticipation ;)
Heskey was the perfect target man: A tactical forward who's job isn't necessarily to score loads of goals, but receive high and long balls, dominate in the air and hold the ball up while the rest of the team transition forward.
I think the even Heskey scored was more about him being the set up man to Owen and to try and wind up German fans. The fact that his career went downhill stat wise after that first year at Liverpool show he wasn't really that great.
HESKEY GOT THE SKILLS TO PAY THE BILLS
Very dangerous these days to describe any black person as an 'Enigma'...
While Andy Cole got a total 15 caps, the first 5 spead over 5 years.
Fans who acc know about football know heskey was class. One of englands best players in terms of assists
When Heskey broke through at Leicester, he looked unstoppable. Quick, powerful and fearless. But something happened to him when he moved to Liverpool, I'm not sure if it was injury related or tactical. But he seemed to lose that fearlessness. Instead of powering through challenges and barreling towards goal he would go down to win free kicks at every opportunity. He seemed to lose the electric pace and acceleration that made him so dangerous in his teens. Despite that he had a superb career. But honestly as a teenager he looked like he would become one of the best players in the world.
He looked great at that time
weird comparison but i see a lot of what made Heskey great in Che Adams for Southampton. Great physicality and strength as well as really good finish and fantastic hold up play. For us he's the ideal all round partner to Ings who is less rounded but more lethal goalscorer
Well there is another chance about Heskey which is more than flattering.
I remember an old guy chatting to us about footballers and first thing he said when heskey was mentioned was "grafter". I think it summed him up well.
he is not judged because of the lack of goal. but because he often miss an open goal oportunity
I've thought this for a while but it is easy to forget that in the early 2000s he was actually really, really good
In his days at Leicester, Liverpool and his first season or so at Birmingham, he could occasionally run in behind where his power and strength were utilised in another way. He adapted his game when he was 29/30 to become a pure target man which hampered his scoring (which was never particularly prolific) but prolonged his career as he always gave sides that played a particular style of football a good option. Amazing how a season before he left Leicester, they had prepared themselves with an almighty prolific strikeforce in record signing Ade Akinbiyi and journeyman Trevor Benjamin. Oh dear....
Akinbiyi was signed by Peter Taylor after Heskey had left. In theory he wasn't a bad replacement as he had similar physical attributes to Heskey and had a decent goals return in the second tier. However, he turned out to be absolutely horrendous.
Can you guys please do an episode or podcast on Mario Mandzukic?! Your content is great and hes probably Europe's most underrated striker! Not sure if you'll see this comment but would be SO appreciated and interesting
It's strange that people expect Heskey to have scored 22 every season when his role and the team around him changed significantly during his time at Liverpool. For example, he'd barely play with Barmby or Babbel ever again, McAllister and Berger were only there for one more full season and by 02-03 he was playing mostly on the left of midfield.
He was excellent for us in his first season at Birmingham too. Very popular with fans and players.
8 trophies. 2 trophies with Leicester city and 6 trophies with Liverpool
Heskey for Liverpool was quite brilliant.
At liverpool he was good. Won his trophies too. Nice guy as well
A travesty that he never won a single ballon dor
Great video Heskey was Man of the match Vs Brazil in the 2002 World Cup quarter final
What are you waiting for,GET HIM NOWWWWWWW
Guess you could say he was the Chuck Norris of football
He’s got the skills to pay the fucking mortgage
You should let Ian Wright do more narrations good video
Wow, how much did Emile pay you for this?
Heskey was a beast at Liverpool around 2000-2001. The problem is, football changed, became faster and more tactical, and Heskey didn't adopt to the changes.
Nonsense
Young heskey at Leicester city was a BEAST! very scary lol
Heskey Was A Great Player And He Had Talent And Could Score Goals.
I think the game developer just love to make him useless. Learn that from experienced
No lie, i championship manager 03/04, as liverpool manager and pair owen and heskey upfront. We won the league with owen score 30 and heskey 4. He just suck at the game, eeverytime its one on one he always just pass it to the keeper. That's not all, 2 times this happen; keeper already out of his position and heskey still miss wtf?? But wait, threres more, one penalty shootout against arsenal. Adriano the striker need to be put as gk bcos lehmann injured. The game goes to shootout and guess who's the only one who got his penalty saved by adriano??
is this true😂😂
sir, please make an analysis like this for Carlton Palmer. He is so underrated player.
I Many people didn't see your talent...But I did.. Its like where would batmen be without robben, Michael Jordon without Pippen etc.. I appreciate you and I say Thank you for everything you done at Liverpool!
Under rated on club level mostly, in a way how capello used him around 2008 until the world cup I believe he was an his best, unfortunately England defence were a shambles.
One of the best English strikers ever.
You should do a video on the Newcastle jets, they have a had an absolute amazing season and the improvement from the last season that is out of this world.
The Chuck Norris of football
Thanks for this video! Many England fans need to see this.
Same deal as with Firmino !!
I always loved Heskey.
Kids mentioning KSI 🤦♂️
Who remembers Green ( goalkeeper) when let that ball pass through his hands vs USA! He never recovered from that, he lost his spot!
Jesse Hernandez The poor lad was ridiculed even more than Heskey. At least I knew about Heskey up until his retirement. Never heard about Green after the world cup.
FutbolVinotinto21 I be live he was playing in the 3rd tier 🤔
Jesse Hernandez Poor guy
Jesse Hernandez I think it was Green in the goal when Celtic beat Barcelona.
Reminds me a lot of Giroud
The irony being that Heskey was a very useful striker in his prime
Who's here after all this happened
Heskey was boss at Liverpool
Can you do a tactical video on Heskey. The only thing I find on him is jokes that he can’t score. I want to see how he fit in with Rooney and Owen
He made space for them. Messed up the cohesion of defences. Defenders found him and his strength on the ball difficult to deal with and he won a lot of free kicks. Totally unselfish team player. He was adept as a target man, winning aerial balls and moving them on to his strike partner.
Early 20s Heskey was better than Lukaku
Heskey IS THE MOST UNDERRATED player in Football History...
...Icardi is the most OvERRATED.
How is Ksi not in this video? Come on now
his never a failure he is one of the few players to have scored more than 100 goals in the premier league
OMG u make heskey sound like a footballing god. Stop it :D
Watched his 100 goals club like this guy is sooo underrated. He was doing all sorts of things tap ins dribbles volleys everything. And that was just the goals.