 | | NEWS STORY | CROUCH BIDS FOR HONORARY SCOUSER STATUS
Paul Rogers 02 March 2007 |  | On the eve of the Premiership showdown with Manchester United, Peter Crouch has admitted that less than two years after swapping the south coast for Merseyside, he's become an honorary Scouser in love with the city of Liverpool. | "I love it here," Crouch told ZOO Magazine this week. "I think it's a great city. The first thing that struck me is how friendly the people are. It's a city but it seems like everybody knows each other and I like that.
"To be honest, I like it so much up here that I think I'd rather live in the north now. I prefer it to London and I never thought I'd say that. I like the way people are friendly and talk to each other. When you go back to London you really notice how different it is there."
One subject that fans in Liverpool never tire of asking Crouch about is the robotic goal celebration that threatened to become more famous than the striker himself last summer.
"People come up to me all the time and ask me to do it," he admits, "but I can't just do it in the middle of the street. I'd just feel silly. I don?t know why I did it in the first place. But the lads liked it and found it funny and so did a lot of other people. It seemed to make people smile, so I kept on doing it."
So could we see the return of the robot on Saturday if he manages to find the net against United?
"I don?t know about that," laughs Crouch. "I'll never rule it out but I think The Robot got a bit out of control! Maybe I'll save it for a special occasion!"
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