3. Robbie Fowler
Matthew Ashton/EMPICS SportNo other player defined the Liverpool squad of the nineties than Robbie Fowler, the most visible member of the Spice Boys but one who, like McManaman and Redknapp, made up for his appearances in tabloids and tawdy celebrity magazines by playing some bloody good football. During 266 appearances up front he scored 128 times, which is a rather enviable ratio even for the best strikers we have playing in the red today. Even if he did spend his childhood supporting Everton. Having began his career at Anfield as a schoolboy, signing properly in 1992 at age 17, Fowler finished his first season as the club's leading scorer with 18 goals in all competitions, although beaten to the top scorer in the league by living legend Ian Rush. Still, he kept that up for the intervening nine years, spending almost a decade as one of our most consistent strikers and goal scorers. Plus there was that whole coke snorting/"Cameroonian grass eating" celebration, which was pretty funny. Still, after being dropped by Gerard Houllier in favour of Michael Owen and Emile Heskey (imagining dropping anybody for Emile Heskey) Fowler, disgusted, ended up at Leeds United and then Man City, where injuries spoilt his form which he never really managed to recover. A return to Anfield was a nice victory lap, sullied by money-grabbing turns at Cardiff, Blackburn, North Queensland Fury, Perth Glory and finally Muangthong United. He's since retired in all but name, having never reached the God-like heights he did with Liverpool, and never seeming able to recapture the passion for the game he had playing there.