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 necessarily shake the Kop with their talent, but gave us a good laugh and will be remembered with a smile.

3 Titi Camara - He was shit before he arrived, he was shit when he left, but for the short glorious spell that he was a Liverpool player, Titi Camara f*cking ruled. I love Titi Camara, and he probably shouldnt be in this list as hes much better than a lot of the others who made this top ten. Hes in there not because we laughed at him (like Phil Babb for instance), but because he made people

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Hes a strange one is Titi. Before he arrived he had stank the place out in the UEFA Cup Final for Marseille, but in some ways that probably helped him at Liverpool. Expectations werent high, so that may have lessened the pressure on him. He made a great start to his Liverpool career, and my first real memory of him is seeing him juggling the ball and taking the piss out of Arsenal at Anfield. It was the game when Robbie scored that cracker from 30 yards. I also recall Titi shoulder barging Lee Dixon and almost sending him into the Paddock.

He scored at Elland Road, and bagged a fair few goals in the opening months of his first season. He played with a smile on his face, and always managed to do some kind of trick during a game to keep us entertained. Theres only one thing people will think of when they think of Titi though, and thats that night against West Ham at Anfield. Having found out his father had passedaway that day, the Guinean striker insisted on playing against the Hammers that night, and fittingly he scored the only goal of the game. He broke down in tears immediately after scoring, but none of us knew the background behind it until after the game when the news broke.

That night ensured Titi Camaras place in Liverpool folklore, but it cut no ice with Gerard Houllier who just never really seemed to fancy him, especially after signing Emile Heskey. Houlliers reluctance to play Camara in the closing part of the season arguably cost the club a Champions League spot, as the reds failed to score in any of the last five games and missed out on a place after a last day defeat at Bradford.

Things got worse for Camara at the start of the next season, when he was sidelined with a back injury that Houllier claimed he was putting on. When he eventually returned to fitness, he didnt get a look in, despite the side struggling in attack. The straw that broke thecamels back was when Houllier made Camara warm up on the touchline for the entire second of a dire game against Slovan Liberec in the UEFA Cup. The game was crying out for him, and so was the Kop. Houllier ignored those cries, and the next day Camara handed in a transfer request.

He moved to West Ham where he joined his pal Rigobert Song, but the move didnt work out and not to put too fine a point on it, Titi was fucking shit for the Hammers. When he came back to Anfield as a West Ham player, he got a great reception and applauded the Kop whenever they sang his name, just as he used to do when he was a red. Hed even do that when the game was still going on, and it used to drive Houllier nuts. That was Titi though, he was a genuine fella who loved Liverpool.

The last I heard he was playing for some rich middle eastern club. I remember reading about him scoring a hat-trick and being rewarded with three Rolls Royces or something daft like that. Peopleoften list Camara amongst Houlliers poor signings, but that simply isnt true. He was a good player for us and how he played for other clubs is irrelevant. Its impossible for me to think about Titi Camara without smiling. Titi, Titi Ti, Titi, Titi Ti, Titi, Titi Ti, Titi Ti Camara. . . .