{"id":8072,"date":"2026-06-10T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:22:13","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-71-emile-heskey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=8072","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest &#8211; No.71: Emile Heskey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Years: <\/strong>2000-2004<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Appearances: <\/strong>223<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Goals: <\/strong>60<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Trophies: <\/strong>League Cup (2001, 2003), FA Cup (2001), UEFA Cup (2001), UEFA Super Cup (2001)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emile Heskey was one of the attacking spearheads of a trophy-laden period for Liverpool under <strong>Gerard Houllier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Signed from Leicester City at the outset of the new millennium, the England international could be an unplayable presence at his best.<\/p>\n<p>Quick, strong, deft in link-up play and a finisher with head or foot, Heskey scored 22 times in 56 appearances during an impressive first full season at Anfield, 2000-01.<\/p>\n<p>Predominantly in partnership with <strong>Michael Owen<\/strong> up front, but <strong>Robbie Fowler<\/strong> too, he helped the Reds achieve a remarkable treble triumph.<\/p>\n<p>There was League Cup, FA Cup \u2013 in which he scored in four different rounds \u2013 and UEFA Cup success that term, alongside European Cup qualification.<\/p>\n<p>A UEFA Super Cup win followed at the outset of the next campaign, with Heskey scoring in the 3-2 victory over Bayern Munich in Monaco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years: 2000-2004 Appearances: 223 Goals: 60 Trophies: League Cup (2001, 2003), FA Cup (2001), UEFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}