How many people right now can tell you that they’ve lived to witness World War I. Or, when Martin Luther King was giving out his speech to millions on his dream. Or, in my case (if you’re Malaysian you would know) lived long enough to witness and share their experiences when Tunku Adbul Rahman declared independence. You get the picture. These kinds of moment are rare and you’d be lucky enough to say you were even born in that era. (Well, except for the World War. No one really wants to relieve that. Those were some hard moments endured by mankind).

Similarly, it’s not every day you get to see a player rise to his success. And today, I am lucky enough to tell you that I have witnessed his rise to fame. As I recollect back, I can easily illustrate how things went down before he was even a Liverpool player. Back then, we had Torres and boy was he a player! He captured the hearts of all Liverpool supporter. Like every rise to fame and glory, the fall is even harder. He made the biggest (I’m sorry but he’s nowhere the player he used to be backed at Liverpool or Athletico) by signing for Chelsea. Let’s face it, Chelsea is not worst club to go to. Having said that, it’s also not the best club to go to for a player with his talent. Chelsea, well I’ll debate this over another time.

And so, he left. I must say I was a big fan of Torres and I was beyond devasted when he left. Not to mention hurt! So, we were all feeling down (yes, here at Liverpool we are one big family). Then came Luis. (pronounced as Lo-ee) I have to say I was one of those people who doubted his ability when he first joined. I thought to myself, “How is anyonw going to fill Tores’ boots?!”. I remember when he came on as substitue for the first time, and guess what? If you haven’t already knew, he scored. We won that game with a scoreline of 2-1 and the opponents we faced were Stoke. That was when I knew he was destined to do great things (Toress who?)

For some odd reason (maybe I’m biased to anything Liverpool), whatever antics he did on the field and by antics I mean his sudden desire to eat his opponents (literally), it didn’t waiver my love for him as a player. I saw it as part of the game and of course I was annoyed much like the other Liverpool fans but I was never hated him. Never. Come on, this was the player everyone hated but would kill to have him on their team. He was that kind of a player. He was in other words the live wire in the Livepool team (besides Stevie though). And even when he got banned from playing he still managed to keep to his game and stay true as the player he was.

This season he missed 4 games but he was the top scorer of the league. To top it off, he won the PFA Player of The Year Award, was named as the Football Association Writers player of the year and shared the European Golden Shoe with Cristiano Ronaldo. If anyone’s wondering he scored a total of 31 goals in the league while being out of action for a month!

For me, I never got to listen to Martin Luther’s I have a dream speech or even fought the World War. But, I can say one thing. I was there when Luis Suarez took Europe by storm and that was becuse he was at a great club. And that club is Liveprool. Luis, if you are reading this, you will be missed and no matter what, You will never walk alone!