They werent very good, but we loved them anyway. 10 Players Who Shook the Kop (with laughter) Following on from liverpoolfc.tvs excellent 100 Players Who Shook the Kop, heres a TLW run down of ten players who didnt shake the Kop with their talent, but gave us a good laugh and will be remembered with a smile.

4 Djibril Cisse - What can I say about Djibs? Some loved him, some hated him, and some â“ like myself â“ loved him and hated him often at the same time. The colourful Frenchman was one huge contradiction. Hed speak about his great love for the club and the fans, and hed back it up by wearing a red suit to get married in or be seen around town wearing a vintage grey Candy Liverpool away shirt.

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Then hed refuse to close down defenders and fling his arms into the air when passes didnt arrive exactly where he wanted them. He was completely infuriating on the field, and usually that kind of player isnt tolerated.

But there was more to Djibs than the tantrum throwing, arrogant looking, work shy striker who sometimes looked like he couldnt hit Rick Wallers arse with a cricket bat. The laziness was more due to a lack of a football brain than any reluctance to run. He didnt think I cant be arsed chasing that defender. He just didnt think. Cisse was a phenomenal athletic specimen, and if that had been allied to a better football brain and a better first touch then he really would have been able to live up the hopes that he could become as good as his pal Thierry Henry.

As for the arrogance, by all accounts he is actually a nice, quiet lad, who was popular with his team-mates. Extravagent? Certainly. Arrogant? Non. If you judged him solely on a video highlights compilation of his goals, youd think Cisse was something very special. Scary pace, and a ferocious shot, hes scored some amazing goals in his career. Based on that, you could be forgiven for thinking he was almost as good as Henry. What those highlights packages dont show however, are all the times he ran needlessly offside, or ballooned a shot into the back row of the stand, or failed to control a simple pass.

Many Liverpool fans had seen the goal compilation videos on the internet (some of them on Djibs own website in fact), and as such expectations were high when he arrived for £14m after a three or four year chase by previous manager Gerard Houllier. He wasnt a Rafa Benitez signing, but the deal had been agreed and seemingly there was no way out of it, so the new manager was stuck with him. It started well enough with a debut goal at Spurs, but the flaws in his game quickly became apparent.

Serious doubts were beginning to emerge from many fans about the strikers technique, work rate and overall effectiveness. One God awful display at Old Trafford in which he allowed returning druggie Rio Ferdinand the most comfortable game of his career, really raised concerns about the young French striker. Then, he suffered a horrific leg break at Ewood Park. It was expected hed be out for a long, long time, yet amazingly he was back within five months, coming on as a sub against Juventus in Turin. That desire to get back playing makes a mockery of any suggestion that he is work shy, and it earned him a lot of respect and patience from the Anfield crowd. The flaws in his game were still there, but no-one was going to havea go at a lad who had fought so hard to get back playing at a time when we were short of numbers up front.

His sudden popularity also made it difficult for Rafa Benitez to sell him. Hed scored a penalty in the Champions League final shoot out, and still had four years left on his contract. Getting shut of him wasnt going to be easy, especially as he was desperate to stay, so at the start of the following season Djibril was still at the club. He bagged a load of goals in the CL qualifying rounds against the minnows, but on the whole he just wasnt cutting the mustard up front. Benitez had watched hours and hours of video footage from Cisses Auxerre days, and noted that a high proportion of his goals came when attacking from the right, so he began to use him on the right wing. The results were mixed, as Cisses goals per game ratio was impressive, even when he was playing on the wing. The stats were perhaps deceiving however, as he was something of a flat trackbully. Most of his goals came against poor opposition, and he never got a kick against the top sides.

Old Trafford would again prove to be a low point, as he missed an absolute sitter when the game was scoreless, and we went out to concede a stoppage time goal and lost 1-0. Hed missed the chance because he had been sat on his arse complaining in the six yard box, and had to jump up quickly when the ball came to him and he spooned it over the bar. The incident encapsulated all that was wrong with Cisse, and that was the day when a lot of people finally ran out of patience with him. He continued to delight and infuriate (not in equal measures) for the rest of the season, culminating in the FA Cup Final.

If ever a game summed up Djibril Cisse, that was it. As we found ourselves 2-0 down to West Ham, wewere in big trouble. Djibs had already seen one goal harshly ruled out for offside, but when Gerrard picked him out with a perfect ball, he acrobatically found the net with a superb volley. That goal got us back into the game, and got him off the hook with the fashion police after hed taken to the field in odd boots. He rectified that problem at half time, changing his footwear so they at least matched. Unfortunately, his new boots were lime green coloured monstrosities. He did himself no favours there, especially as his performance was terrible.

He got cramp late on in the game, just like six or seven of his team-mates. Wed used all our subs, yet I distinctly saw Djibs trying to tell the bench he had to come off. He was told in no uncertain terms to get back on, which he reluctantly did. He couldnt walk for most of extra time, yet when the celebrations started he forgot about the pain. When the celebrations had ended and the players left the field, suddenlyCisse appeared sprinting across the pitch to go and hand his shirt and boots to a fan in a wheelchair on the far side of the field. Those around me where not impressed that he could suddenly run when hed walked through extra time. Thats what I mean though, he is a total contradiction.

I dont think any player has ever split opinion in the way Cisse did. There were those who pointed to his goals ratio and claimed he should have been a given a run up front, whilst other argued that he contributed nothing apart from the goals and he didnt do it against the top teams. Im definitely in the second camp, although I think given the right surroundings in a side that plays to his strengths he would look a terrific player. That team was never going to be us, as he just didnt know what was expected of a Liverpool player. Morientes knew what was required of a Liverpool player, he just couldnt deliver it as he didnt have the legs. Cisse had the legs, just notthe game intelligence.

Rafa was all set to cash in on him that summer, and the money would probably have been used to get Daniel Alvez. But Cisse broke his leg in eerily similar circumstances to last time, and Rafa saw £8m removed from his kitty. Marseille took him on loan, and hes back playing and scoring with them, so hopefully the deal will be made permanent in the summer. He is not a bad player, hes just not a Liverpool player.

Its hard not to have a soft spot for the crazy bastard though. The one thing you can say about Djibril Cisse was that he was entertaining. Not in the way he would have liked perhaps, but how can you not smile when you see your centre forward take to the field with a BA Baracus haircut? I loved that haircut. I loved the red suit he wore to get married in, I loved his penalty in Istanbul and his jig around the trophy. I love the fact he somehow got his hands on an 80s Liverpool away shirt and proudly wore it around town. Ilove the courage hes shown to come back from two broken legs, and I love that he loves us. It didnt work out, but it wasnt all bad. Djibril Cisse made me angry, but he also made me smile and thats why he made this list. Allez Cisse.