Fowler better than Heskey, so shut up

Just read an article suggesting Emile Heskey is "Back in form"

Well, there is nobody in the English game I hate more than Heskey. Mark Viduka is a close second, but Heskey cost Robbie Fowler his Liverpool spot (I am over the moon that he is back) and for that I will always hate him. All Viduka ever did was play jealous and refuse under any circumstance to pass the ball to Fowler. Leeds lost more games because of Viduka than I care to mention.

To go back to topic. the idea that Heskey is worth mentioning as a player fior England is laughable. He is at least the worst player (after McMannana) to suit up for England in the last 10 years. Just to show that I am not some crack pot here is the proof on Heskey.

Over the past six seasons:

Robbie Fowler has scored 53 goals
Emile Heskey has scored 52 goals

essentially the same, no REAL difference, except that over the last 6 seasons

Fowler has played 152 games
Heskey has played 240 games

Opps, somebody sucks

Of his 152 games Fowler started 112 games (a goal every 2 starts)
Of his 240 games Heskey started 195 games (a goal every 4 starts)

Here is where it gets weird. During that time Liverpool, a fantastic club, got rid of Fowler because they prefered Heskey (there were other reasons, but they prefered their Owen/Heskey matchup). Once he left, Liverpool took a nose dive, he comes back, the team rebounds.

During that same 6 years

Heskey played 19 international games for England (13 starts) scoring 1 goal

while

Fowler played 4 international games for England (all as a sub) scoring 2 goals

What the fuck is going on in the world? How does this sack of shit get on the pitch ahead of Fowler?

Heskey has scored a tidy 14 of his goals in 43 games of cup competition

Fowler has 8 goals in cup in 18 games of cup competition over the same 6 year period.

What I am tying to illustrate here is that even in the "Down" part of his career, Fowler still scores at a rate of a goal every 2 starts regardless of team or competition, while the best Heskey could muster was 1 goal every 3 games in cup competitions and a measley 1 goal every 4 games in league competition, or worse still 1 goal every 20 games for England.

The reason I mention this is because it has been mentioned that after scoring 1 goal for fucking Wigan, Heskey is back in the running for a spot on the England squad. This garbage picker could not hold Fowler's hat at the coat check and still they talk about him playing for England.

CRAZY.

Fowler never got a fair shake on the International scene, give him a shot before you drag that old sack of Heskey out.