Liverpool-born and bred, Robbie Fowler earned a contract with the Reds on his 17th birthday in 1992. He rose to prominence in the 1994-5 season and played in all of Liverpool’s 57 competitive matches.
It’s during this year he racked up a hat-trick in four minutes and 33 seconds, the fastest time to three goals in the Premier League (until Southampton’s Sadio Mane managed it in two minutes and 56 seconds during a 2015 game). Unsurprisingly, Liverpool fans were quite happy about this, dubbing the striker ‘God’.
Robbie Fowler was a Liverpool legend in the late nineties. However, a dip in performance and fitness led to his departure in 2001 to Leeds United. He then played for Manchester City before returning to Liverpool briefly again, leaving the club for the last time in 2007 with a total of 183 goals.
After playing for Cardiff City and Blackburn Rovers, Robbie Fowler had two seasons playing in the Australian A-League before moving to Thailand and Muangthong United, a team he later managed for one season.
As well as Muangthong United, Robbie also managed Brisbane Roar in Australia, East Bengal in India, and Al-Qadsiah in Saudi Arabia.
In 2014, Fowler participated in a charity match to commemorate the lives of the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the Hillsborough Disaster. Fowler scored both goals for his team in a 2-2 draw.
He has published two popular biographies:
– Fowler: My Autobiography (2005)
–Â Robbie Fowler: My Life in Football: Goals, Glory, and the Lessons I’ve Learnt(2019)
Robbie is also a passionate supporter of charities, and has competed in the Legends Tour Celebrity Series of golf tournaments. He won the event in 2021 and finished second in 2022, and has raised almost £20,000 for charities. He has also help charity gold days to raise money for The Ichthyosis Support Group – his godson suffers from the genetic skin condition ichthyosis, for which there is no cure.
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