- Stephen Bunting bumped right into a former Liverpool star in his Rotterdam lodge
- The 52-year-old performed 184 occasions for the Reds between 2001 and 2007
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Darts star Stephen Bunting admitted he was ‘starstruck’ after bumping right into a Liverpool legend this week.
The 40-year-old fan favorite was within the Dutch metropolis of Rotterdam for Evening 11 of Premier League Darts as he appears to be like to construct on a powerful victory in Berlin earlier this month.
Exterior of his prowess on the Oche, Bunting is a die-hard Liverpool fan having been born within the metropolis earlier than rising up in close by St Helens.
As such, it’s maybe no shock that Bunting had been ecstatic to fulfill with one in all heroes of the membership’s 2005 Champions League-winning facet.
In a submit on social media, Bunting shared a photograph of himself alongside Jerzy Dudek, having met the previous Poland worldwide whereas the pair had been staying on the identical lodge.
He wrote on X (previously Twitter): ‘All the best way to Rotterdam and this @LFC legend @Jurek_Dudek staying on the identical lodge. Not fairly often I’m star struck.’
Liverpool superfan Stephen Bunting shared a photograph of himself alongside membership legend Jerzy Dudek
Dudek famously produced an impressed efficiency as Liverpool triumphed within the 2005 Champions League closing
The 52-year-old additionally made greater than 120 Premier League appearances throughout his six-year stint on Merseyside
Practically twenty years after that well-known night time in Istanbul, Dudek’s devotion to his former membership is obvious to see because the 52-year-old donned a LFC branded baseball cap.
Dudek first arrived at Anfield in the summertime of 2001 as Gerard Houllier seemed to bolster his choices between the posts.
Regardless of competitors from the likes of Chris Kirkland and Scott Carson, Dudek remained Liverpool’s No 1 throughout the 2004-05 marketing campaign as Rafa Benitez led the Reds to the Champions League closing.
Dudek would make quite a lot of essential saves throughout that fateful conflict with AC Milan, together with an unbelievable double cease in closing phases of extra-time to disclaim Andriy Shevchenko a winner earlier than making an additional two saves Liverpool triumphed on penalties.
Regardless of his heroics within the closing, Dudek would discover himself enjoying backup to the newly-arrived Pepe Reina simply months later and was unable to wrest the beginning spot again off the Spaniard earlier than leaving for Actual Madrid in 2007.
Confronted with the unenviable place of attempting to usurp Iker Casillas on the Bernabeu, Dudek would primarily function a backup throughout his 4 years in La Liga earlier than hanging up his gloves in 2011.
