Robbie Fowler’s conspiracy theories are a giant leap for stupidity
The former Liverpool striker doesn’t believe in the moon landings, so I won’t recognise his entire career
The Observer - Thursday 5 November 2026
Illustration by Ionut-Claudiu Vancea
In a crushing blow to the legacy of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and everyone involved in the flight of Apollo 11, Robbie Fowler has declared that the moon landing was “bullshit”.
Now, it’s well understood that, in order to dismiss the American space programme on the basis of little more than a hunch, an ex-footballer must be in possession of either a surprising level of confidence in the value of his own intuition or a start-up podcast that could use a nudge.
And, in this case, we have to note that Fowler chose to go full conspiracy theorist on a new chat outlet he shares with his former Liverpool team-mate Steve McManaman. So perhaps we can frame this contribution to the debate as a somewhat over-clubbed shot for clicks in what is, after all, a surprisingly competitive marketplace for ex-footballers and their guff.
Then again, Joe Cole wasn’t speaking to a podcast when he gave vent to his particular doubts about the reality of 1969’s so-called “giant leap for mankind”: he was speaking to the legacy media magazine Four Four Two, which actually covered the moon landings. Or was that National Geographic? Never mind.
In fairness to Cole, his take was a little more nuanced than Fowler’s. He was ready to be proved wrong, Cole said – ready to be told he was “being silly”, indeed. But he would need a sit down with an actual astronaut to acquire the certainty that five further visits to the Moon by 10 further astronauts between 1969 and 1972, hundreds of hours of documentary film footage, thousands of history books featuring first-person testimony from the hundreds of people involved, and the existence of an entire global space industry had somehow failed to bring him in this area.
Weird, no? To be honest, though, I suppose I was the same about David Icke. Something in me obviously needed to see the former Coventry goalkeeper turned lizard conspiracy theorist with my own eyes. Else why would I have kept a lookout for him all that time on my annual trips to the Isle of Wight? Finally spotting him that day, at a windswept and otherwise deserted outdoor cafe table in Puckpool Park, enabled me to expunge once and for all the nagging feeling I had that someone – or perhaps some secret organisation seeking to control us – had made him up.
Fowler’s career is a fabrication, I reckon, designed to distract us from what’s really going on
Anyway, Robbie Fowler seems pretty adamant that the moon landing didn’t really happen. And that’s quite a coincidence, because I don’t believe that Robbie Fowler really happened.
I know: you’ll point to the documentary evidence of Fowler’s goal-strewn Liverpool career through the 1990s and the five cups he helped the club win in that time. But there is just too much implausibility, for me – too many suspicious loopholes.
Take the footage from before the 1996 FA Cup Final, for instance. Fowler in a white suit? Pull the other one! Nobody would wear that. Also, look at the way those trousers don’t seem to move in the wind but just hang stiffly off him. Obviously the whole sequence was faked in a film studio. And most probably funded by a deep-state cabal who resent football and want to destroy it.
Or how about this notion that he pretended to snort a goal line one time? And that Gérard Houllier, his manager, told the Press it was “a Cameroonian grass-eating celebration”. Again, you sense the involvement of covert anti-football forces bent on making everyone involved look ridiculous.
Also, we’re asked to believe that Fowler got a four-match ban for that display, but only a two-match ban for the homophobic gesture he made at Chelsea’s Graeme Le Saux. I mean, come on! Which of those things was worse: the homophobia or the simulated drug-taking? It doesn’t add up. The whole thing is fabrication, I reckon, designed to distract us from what’s really going on.
And you will tell me there’s loads of evidence that Robbie Fowler did actually happen and that a large number of people have no problem accepting this.
But what can I tell you? I just think it’s bullshit, and that’s my truth. And we’re all entitled to our truth. Isn’t that right, Robbie?
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