In his three-and-a-half seasons at Liverpool, Luis Suarez made an indelible impression on the club's fans.
Joining in January 2011, Suarez finished at the club's top scorer in the three seasons which followed, nearly firing Liverpool to the title in his final year at Anfield.
Suarez is the subject of LFCTV series 'Premier League Heroes', the final episode of which airs tonight. In it, Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson tells of Suarez once playing a game wearing a teammate's boot. He did this as his own would not fit due to a swollen ankle.
Not only did Suarez play, he also scored what Henderson called an 'unbelievable free kick'.
Knocks and niggles didn’t bother him, he played through them. [He was] a real warrior. I never saw him in the treatment room.
I remember one game, his ankle was that swollen he couldn’t get his boot on, so he had to go a size up in someone else’s boots. He played on and scored an unbelievable free kick.
Stuff like that you don’t forget. What he does on the pitch speaks for itself. To line up in the tunnel, it’d give you so much confidence as a player knowing that you were going into a game and he was leading at the top. You would react from him and he would set everything off.
Henderson added that having Suarez in the side gave teammates a confidence that even though their backs were to the wall, winning was still a possibility.
He could make the difference at any point. You could be backs against the wall and defending for your life, and Luis could come up with a bit of magic and get you a goal – that’s the quality he had.
I think the biggest thing was just the confidence he gave the whole group. When you line up alongside him and you’re on the pitch, you know no matter what happens in the game he could produce anything for you. That gave us confidence as players.
I learned a lot from Luis as a player and as a person.
