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Before we start, take a pen and put it between your second and third fingers. Don’t keep reading, get the pen and place it between the fingers. Now take your other hand squeeze inwards. You know why I did that? Because at least one of you will have listed Vladi Smicer as one of the average players Rafa Benitez inherited in that 2005 Champions League-winning squad. Vladi was inconsistent and injury-plagued; he was in not any way average. If you class him with the likes of Djimi Traore or Igor Biscan (although both cult heroes for their own reasons), you are not welcome on this site. Like so many of Liverpool’s cult heroes, it’s in Istanbul that the story should begin. Clarence Seedorf moves towards Dietmar Hamann, opening up space for a smart lateral pass to Vladi. Seedorf twists and jogs towards him, he takes one touch and suddenly the golden Dutchman of trivia questions quickens up the pace. Too late. A low shot squirms in past Dida and the comeback continues. You let a man who’s punctuated a career with exactly those kind of strikes out of nothing, take one relatively unopposed and you’re not unlucky. You are stupid. [...]
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