For me a player that has summed up our club in recent years, full of promise, obvious class, and yet so often fell short. We did not give up on Liverpool because to do that it would mean giving up on ourselves, If you where to be given one last game of football to watch before Wednesday you would had chosen that one wouldn't you? And then you would have invested a lifetimes of love and effort into being the best you could be. Anyone spot the parallel? Vladi was given one last game of football, he put in everything he had and look what happened, magic.
His kids where born here and that makes him as godd as local, but more than that he proved he was one of us, I normally hate "Badge Kissing" but when he did it after his ice cold penalty, I wept.
Vladimir Smicer: A true red in every sense of the word, beyond doubt, without regret, and woven into the fabric of this amazing family
Vlad,
thanks and YNWA