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The Premier League cult hero looked unrecognisable<\/p>\nA Premier League cult hero who once cost Liverpool the Premier League title looked unrecognisable as he donned a cap and some glasses while swigging pints<\/p>\n
21:22, 13 Jul 2025Updated 21:24, 13 Jul 2025<\/p>\n
The Premier League cult hero looked unrecognisable<\/p>\n
Even the most eagle-eyed of Arsenal fans might have struggled to recognise the man that once had them in dreamland against Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n Andrey Arshavin etched himself into Gunners folklore thanks his four-goal haul at Anfield back in 2009<\/a> – denting Liverpool’s title ambitions as they watched bitter rivals Manchester United<\/a> disappear into the horizon to claim yet another top flight crown.<\/p>\n The image of him shushing the Anfield crowd is fondly remembered in the red half of north London<\/a> – even though they only returned to the capital with a single point after an epic game that ended 4-4 and left Rafael Benitez’s side unable to catch Sir Alex Ferguson’s men.<\/p>\n Arshavin, now 44, was recently snapped swigging a pint with a Champions League<\/a> cap and channelling his inner Clark Kent to conceal his identity with some glasses.<\/p>\n “Nahh no way that\u2019s Arshavin,” one fan responded. While a second replied: “Don\u2019t tell me that\u2019s Arshavin!”<\/p>\n “It’s sad he’s so forgotten. No one knows him,” a third sighed. As a fourth fumed: “Anyone asking Grok who that is needs to have a think…”<\/p>\n And another added: “Is that Arshavin?? Looks like Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys lost some weight!”<\/p>\n Want to be on the ball with all of the latest football news? Well then sign up for the brilliant Daily Star Football email newsletter!<\/p>\n From the latest transfer news to breaking stories, get it all in your email inbox.<\/p>\n How do you sign up?<\/p>\n It only takes a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n Simply click on this link<\/a>, then provide your email address and that’s it, job done. You’ll receive an email with all of the top football stories.<\/p>\n You can also sign up for our sport email, Off the Ball, for all the latest darts, boxing, snooker, F1 stories and more, right here<\/a><\/p>\n Arshavin left Arsenal<\/a> in 2013, returning to Russia<\/a> with Zenit Saint Petersburg – he would also turn out for Kuban Krasnodar in his homeland before hanging up his boots with Kazakh outfit Kairat.<\/p>\n However, that evening under the Anfield lights will always define his career. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to remember how I felt after each goal I scored,\u201d Arshavin told The Athletic in 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cLooking back at the photos, I guess I was thinking something fantastic was happening. I\u2019d scored three, then four.<\/p>\n “Basically one came right after the other. I couldn\u2019t believe we were in Liverpool, I was scoring all these goals, and at the time we were also beating Liverpool.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Premier League cult hero who once cost Liverpool the Premier League title looked unrecognisable as he donned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[6167,748,393,4884,179,763,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-262800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arsenal-fc","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-fc","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114848579408084318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Andrey](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_Liverpool-v-Arsenal-Premier-League.jpg\")
Andrey Arshavin stunned Anfield into silence(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Andrey](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_andreyarshavin10_1694264768_3188046405379851913_9872704587.jpg\")
Andrey Arshavin looks quite different these days![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1_FOOTBALL-NEWSLETTER-IMAGE.jpg\")
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