May 13 2011, 09:01 PM
http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/chester-...59067-28686763/
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“Suarez has done better so far than I thought he would, and quicker than I thought,” says Keegan, now lead analyst for ESPN’s football coverage. “He has been very good, and settled very quickly.
“The comparison with myself comes up a lot, but I think he’s a different player to me. I can’t see him getting a lot of headed goals, as I did, for example, but I can see him scoring more spectacular goals than I did.
“He uses space differently to me. I would see the touchline as my enemy, he sees it as his friend. So he’s very different to me.
“Sure you can compare myself and Toshy to Suarez and Carroll, because one is a good header of the ball and the other is a bit nippy, but there is a bit of a difference.
“I think Liverpool paid £110,000 for Toshy (from Cardiff City) and they paid £35,000 for me, so it is a bit different. And I didn’t come from Ajax, or from another big Premier League club. I came from Scunthorpe. I hadn’t been near an England set-up when I arrived at Liverpool in 1971, and I wouldn’t do so for another year afterwards.
“Suarez has played in the World Cup and the Champions League, so he is coming in as an established player. When I arrived, nobody knew me. I couldn’t even get into the game for my first match at Anfield, the security guard didn’t believe me when I said I was playing!”
“The comparison with myself comes up a lot, but I think he’s a different player to me. I can’t see him getting a lot of headed goals, as I did, for example, but I can see him scoring more spectacular goals than I did.
“He uses space differently to me. I would see the touchline as my enemy, he sees it as his friend. So he’s very different to me.
“Sure you can compare myself and Toshy to Suarez and Carroll, because one is a good header of the ball and the other is a bit nippy, but there is a bit of a difference.
“I think Liverpool paid £110,000 for Toshy (from Cardiff City) and they paid £35,000 for me, so it is a bit different. And I didn’t come from Ajax, or from another big Premier League club. I came from Scunthorpe. I hadn’t been near an England set-up when I arrived at Liverpool in 1971, and I wouldn’t do so for another year afterwards.
“Suarez has played in the World Cup and the Champions League, so he is coming in as an established player. When I arrived, nobody knew me. I couldn’t even get into the game for my first match at Anfield, the security guard didn’t believe me when I said I was playing!”
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