LFC LEGENDSPeter Crouch is the latest name to confirm he will play
for Liverpool FC Legends in the LFC Foundation Charity
Match against Barça Legends at Anfield on Saturday 28
March.
The sell-out ixture, which is presented by AXA – the
club’s oicial training partner – already has a whole host
of legends set to line up again on the famous Anield
pitch, but Crouch will be making his Liverpool FC Legends
debut.
Signed from Southampton in 2005, Crouch famously
struggled to break his goalscoring duck for the Reds. It
took him 1,229 minutes before he inally found the net
with a delected strike against Wigan Athletic at Anield.
He then promptly scored again 23 minutes later!
Should a similar drought follow at Legends level then, if
he played once at Anield every season, Crouchie would
get his irst goal in 2033 shortly after his 52nd birthday!
Hopefully that won’t be the case and he’ll hot new
heights against Barca Legends.
“Rafa Benitez was delighted with my work when I went
18 games without a goal and made a point of telling
me,” he recalled in his 2019 book I Robot. “It made no
diference. There was still a small part of me dying inside.
“There is a pleasure that comes in laying on a goal for
someone else, but compared to scoring one yourself if
doesn’t touch the sides. It’s like meeting the most funny,
beautiful woman you’ve ever seen and you reacting to
her leaning in for a kiss by ofering up your mate’s mobile
number.”
Sir Kenny Dalglish will take charge of the Liverpool FC
Legends side with his former strike partnership Ian Rush
and John Aldridge part of the coaching staf.
Without wishing to put them under any pressure,
Liverpool FC Legends are unbeaten at Anield and the last
time Barcelona’s irst-team visited Merseyside things went
very well!
Aldridge was on the scoresheet when the Reds beat
Real Madrid Leyendas in the irst-ever LFC Foundation
charity match at Anield in 2017. He added the second
goal after Michael Owen opened the scoring for his
former club in red against his former club in white.
Robbie Fowler and Steven Gerrard made it 4-0, but
three goals in the last 10 minutes – one from ex-Red
Fernando Morientes – ensured it inished 4-3 to Liverpool
FC Legends.
Afterwards, Gerrard dedicated the win to Ronnie Moran