Size: Default Title

Condition: 9/10 Superb. A few tiny bobbles on the lower front

Size: Adult Medium (loose fitting)

Chest Measurement: 41-43 Inches / 104-109 CM

Manufacturer: Reebok

Colour: Red, white trim

Material: Polyester

Seasons: 1996/1997

Player: Robbie Fowler

Patches: N/A

Official Reebok Liverpool home football shirt from the 1996/97 season. Complete with Fowler #9 on the back of the shirt in original flock lettering.

This was the last season before the Premier League introduced standardised EPL lettering (1997/98). 

Condition of this vintage football jersey is 9/10 - Superb. A few tiny bobbles on the lower front (see photos).

Throughout the mid and late 1990s, Fowler was widely considered to be the most natural finisher playing in England. Fowler sealed this reputation as he scored more than 30 goals for three consecutive seasons, up to 1997. He remains the only player to have scored 30 plus goals in his first three full seasons in England scoring 98 goals with a total of 116 in 3 and a half years, something which has also yet to be beaten in La Liga, Seria A and the Bundesliga too.

Fowler's partnership with Steve McManaman was largely described as the reason why Liverpool had become the club known for being the most potent attacking force in England at the time, and Fowler was renowned for scoring goals of all varieties, from every angle and distance, with McManaman describing him as the "greatest goalscorer of all time."

Stan Collymore, Fowler's strike partner from 1995 to 1997, said in his autobiography that Fowler was the best player he has ever played alongside. Fowler and Collymore were among the most prolific goal-scoring strike partnerships in England during the 1995–96 season. In the same season he scored twice in a 4–3 victory over Newcastle United, a match voted the best of the decade in a Premier League poll. The match helped prevent Newcastle from winning the league, but it was not enough for Liverpool to clinch the title; they finished third while Manchester United were crowned champions. Fowler also played in his first FA Cup final that season, but was on the losing side as Manchester United won 1–0.

On 14 December 1996, he scored four against Middlesbrough, including his hundredth for Liverpool. This meant he reached a century of goals one game quicker than his first strike partner, Ian Rush, in just 165 games.

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