Peter Crouch is NOT a great striker
When you mention the Peter Crouch and goal-scoring records in the same breath I’m not only forced to choke on my breakfast, I lose my appetite for the rest of the day as well.
Are we deliberately playing the ridiculous card here?
Granted, Stevie G probably just said it to boost Crouchie’s morale, but the way everyone has run with the story is shameful.
Here’s a guy who scored a hatful of goals against…wait for it…Greece, Andorra, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. Crouch has the enviable record of scoring 6 goals in the last three games outside the World Cup – although once you look at the quality of the opposition you wonder what sort of denigration the Liverpool striker would have gone through if he had NOT scored.
No need to wonder though – this is the same Peter Crouch who got yellow-carded against Paraguay because he, with all his height, was using his hands to jump above the opposition for high-balls, and couldn’t hit a cow’s arse with a banjo for most of the World Cup.
What should you be considering now? Crouchie’s goal against West Ham that gave Liverpool a 2-1, or his countless excruciating misses for Liverpool ever since he has joined them?
Crouch has a solid technique and a good footballing brain, but this is no star striker – regardless of what Liverpool fans and his Liverpool team-mates say.
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Crouch being a good stiker is just another tall story
September 5th, 2006 @ 12:40I think if someone else , Bellamy for instance, had his height, he would have scored at least 20 a season.
September 5th, 2006 @ 13:01Here’s a guy who scored a hatful of goals against…wait for it…Greece, Andorra, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.
Read that, then look at the rest of the players on the pitch that never managed it. If you actually watch Crouch in a match his movement and creativity is excellent for an English striker.
September 5th, 2006 @ 18:58Interesting to hear you are choking on your breakfast, probably the only hope i get from your anti Crouch rant. I like Crouch. His only problem is he doesnt look like a footballer. As he doesnt look like a footballer, some think he cant play, without actually watching him. His skill level is very high. He knows where the back of the net is. His world cup displays, not brilliant, were consistent with the rest of the England team, not brilliant. Did you notice Lampards missed chances? Should he never play for England again? I remember his goals against Mancs and Blue sh*te last season, and can only say he is a good striker. He can score in high pressure games, as well as minor internationals. Criticise him by all means, but come up with a reason.
September 6th, 2006 @ 04:33A GREATE striker is a striker who can score lot of goals. I’m not sure if he can be consider as great striker or not as is not up to me to judge. But arguably he is the most effective striker in English Squad now.
September 6th, 2006 @ 09:14Calm down mate and get your glasses on. We didn’t see rooners score against T&T did we?
The point about any striker is to put the ball into the net.
September 6th, 2006 @ 16:35Crouch is on a high and he will continue to score. There’s no use to look back and say ‘yeah, but he had to score with opposition like that’.
That’s a facetious arguement and without looking into the past, I’m sure the high goal scorers for any country would have put a few away aginst ‘lesser’ quality opposition. Short term memory.
You just don’t like the look of him! Granted – he looks like a hideous distortion of the gingerbread man – but this man clearly is the next Maradona.
September 7th, 2006 @ 05:42Crouch : Scoring and creating goals in internationals
Rest of england side: Can’t buy a goal
Crouch has game intelligence (as evidenced by the fact that he doesn’t stomp on ‘sensitive’ areas when you need goals… he tries to score!)
This is probably why he’s so *not* a great striker/footballer. What he needs is to land in career-threatening and/or intentional tackles. Then… then can he be a ‘great’ footballer like keane/rooney ?
And if he’s so bad, let’s see you score against a pub XI.
Granted he’s not going to get 20+ goals a season. But he has an all round game, gets other people into the game, and can finish off chances. What more could a coach want?
September 12th, 2006 @ 22:34Hmm… if it was so easy to score against those countries, how come none of the rest of the England team did it?
September 24th, 2006 @ 13:37Crouch is wonderful with his head and bicycle kick.
January 6th, 2007 @ 16:50the only thing that inhibits crouch getting the status of a top striker ironically is his height, he has so much more to his game than his aerial ability. having scored 18 goals this season (Liverpools top scorer) he still gets put down by people who obviosly know f**k all about the game!!
April 14th, 2007 @ 19:32The irony of this statement is he scored a hattrick against Arsenal.
May 16th, 2007 @ 14:34What u on about???? i am a wolves fan and crouch has nothing to do with me (except when he plays for england) but i think that crouch is one of the best strikers in england. and so what if he scored against shite teams i didn’t see you precious owen score, crouch should be first team england and there is no two ways about it and owen and rooney should fight against each other for a first team spot, u losers
June 10th, 2007 @ 16:34take him to world cup, play him in group stages (lesser teams) his record speaks for its self, and go from there, if hes crap take him off
March 5th, 2010 @ 11:41