Bold Tone wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:
Happened to see this video on youtube the other day. One of the few goals/matches I hadn't seen of Henry.
What a freakishly good player he was! The chest control and then spin away from the defender was just, as the commentator said, oh la la!
I watched both those games and remember him playing fantastically well but, looking at the replay all these years later, he was amazing.
With age, he improved his skill, kept the grace but lost a bit of the power those clips show.
It always makes me both happy and sad to watch clips of Henry, we'll never have a player of his quality ever again.
The perfect striker: 6'2", blistering pace, scintillating technique, filled with the necessary arrogance and swagger to pull off outrageous bits of skill yet sufficiently selfless and team-oriented when it mattered. Powerful, graceful, intelligent, and creative. He was the complete striker.
