Steven Gerrard Autobiography | Extracts

I would have done OK in a United team playing alongside Keane in midfield with David Beckham on the right, Ryan Giggs on the left and Ruud van Nistelrooy up front. I would have managed pretty well in that side.
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The Law of Denis said:
A little bit of regret from Stevie G :D
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He seems to have left another name out there, he is right though he wouldn't have looked out of place we could have moved Scholes forward behind Ruud or even played Gerrard there.

Never would have happened though.
 
Seems quite anxious over Fergie's comments that he wasn't a top top player
 
MarkC said:
Quote from Gerrard on that stamp-

"We had stood off United in the first half and made very few tackles. It went against everything built into my DNA. Tackling and collisions mattered against Manchester United.

While we waited for the second half to start, I looked around Anfield, my ancient battleground, and did a last few warm-ups, rotating my torso from the hips, tugging at my shorts, impatient for the game to get under way.

The game restarted, I went in hard with a fair, but slamming tackle on Juan Mata. I cleaned out Mata, who went flying, and I won the ball.

I was involved again, immediately, as Ander Herrera came hurtling towards me to shut down space. I was too quick for him. I completed a simple pass as Herrera came flying in with his sliding tackle. His right leg stretched out invitingly on the Anfield turf. I couldn't stop myself. Without even giving myself time to think I brought my left foot stamping down on Herrera. I felt my studs sink into his flesh just above the ankle. It had to have hurt him."

Sounds like he has been trying to take a page out of Roy Keane's book. He got slated for it lets see if Gerrard gets the same treatment.

Got the laugh at the "Anfield, my ancient battleground", he honestly thinks he's some kind of Roman gladiator. Cringe.
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Well that just confirms what a scumbag he is.
 
Attention seeking tit. You never won the league, you slipped and gave it away, you stamped on a player and got sent off in a big game. Don't care how you feel, sod off to wherever it is nobody will ever remember you again. Cheers.
 
Sigma said:
Why not? He was certainly good enough too. And he was unlucky a few times.
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Nobody deserves to win a title unless you actually win it.

Winning the league isn't like winning a cup, the best team always wins it. He was never a part of a team good enough to win the League. What's unlucky about that?
 
So he has admitted to deliberately stamping on Herrera, maybe its time for MLS (FIFA) to hit this lad with a nice fine or a ban, seeing as Roy Keane got the same.
 
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Djemba-Djemba said:
Nobody deserves to win a title unless you actually win it.

Winning the league isn't like winning a cup, the best team always wins it. He was never a part of a team good enough to win the League. What's unlucky about that?
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OK. Go read about the F1 2012 season then you will know.
 
Olly said:
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lol :lol:

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Is it just me or does he take banter very personally? Like he's whining about United fans chanting about him here and I remember he recently said something similar about Chelsea fans.
 
Big Ben Foster said:
Is it just me or does he take banter very personally? Like he's whining about United fans chanting about him here and I remember he recently said something similar about Chelsea fans.
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he's making out like it was just us singing that song last year. And not sung at every game each weekend in the country where tv cameras were. Wasted no time going for the sympathy vote being treated badly by Liverpool, man the feck up you tit
 
.Rossi said:
So will he be charged for admitting to deliberately stamping on a fellow player?!

Or, is that just for United players?
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Frankly who cares?
Let the twat play and make an ass of himself a few more times.

And whoever said he deserves one league title should be lynched.
If he deserved it he would have won it.
 
Nobody deserves anything in football. Jonathan Greening was in the trophy lifting of the Champions League winning side with a massive gold winners medal around their neck as Henning Berg (that whole season could have been different if his heroics in the Inter Milan game didnt keep us from going into the away leg without an away goal against us), Paul Scholes and Roy Keane stood there in suits like a couple of spare ones at a wedding. Hard work doesn't guarantee you anything in this game. A lot of luck is involved.

Gerrard was extremely unlucky to slip and fall on his arse. I mean, I couldnt have scripted that. Before that game I was hoping a draw would be enough. The idea Gerrard would be at fault for losing them the league was beyond my dreams. I'm not a smart or evil enough man to come up with something as truly hilarious as that. But it happened. Tough luck for him, but (as sad as this sounds) one of my top 5 moments watching footy in 30 years. Who said the beautiful game was dead?

Seriously, as tragic as this is, if someone would have given me a choice of winning the leauge or finishing 7th with Gerrard slipping on his arse and costing Liverpool the title, I would have to think long and hard which I'd have prefered.
 
MarkC said:
I was involved again, immediately, as Ander Herrera came hurtling towards me to shut down space. I was too quick for him. I completed a simple pass as Herrera came flying in with his sliding tackle. His right leg stretched out invitingly on the Anfield turf. I couldn't stop myself. Without even giving myself time to think I brought my left foot stamping down on Herrera. I felt my studs sink into his flesh just above the ankle. It had to have hurt him."
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Is this actually real? It sounds like someone here on the Caf wrote an imaginary quote from his autobiography.

FlawlessThaw said:
Seems quite anxious over Fergie's comments that he wasn't a top top player
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No wonder. Greatest manager in the history of the PL says you're not a "top player" is bound to hurt. We all know it's not true though. He was a top player, just like Lampard, no matter what Fergie says.

Still loathe him.
 
pierrethesnack said:
No wonder. Greatest manager in the history of the PL says you're not a "top player" is bound to hurt. We all know it's not true though. He was a top player, just like Lampard, no matter what Fergie says.

Still loathe him.
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Wasn't what Fergie actually said more a long the lines of that he wasn't an absolute top player, like Messi and Ronaldo? It's been a while since I read the book, but that was my memory - and as good a player as he was, he was never at that level (hardly an insult, players at the level of those two are obviously massively rare).
 
The Law of Denis said:
the most telling part

Instead of hitting a long crossfield pass to set up a goal, making a decisive tackle or curling the ball into the back of the Chelsea goal to seal our victory, I had fallen over

Absolutely embarrassing. Instead of talking about how he would want to get his team back in it, he is upset that he can not get the glory.
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Surely he didnt say that, that sounds like something a WUM from here would write in his book!
 
Antisocial said:
Wasn't what Fergie actually said more a long the lines of that he wasn't an absolute top player, like Messi and Ronaldo? It's been a while since I read the book, but that was my memory - and as good a player as he was, he was never at that level (hardly an insult, players at the level of those two are obviously massively rare).
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You might be right, I don't remember it too well either.
 
Mystry said:
I read that as bit of a dig at Scholes, that he had great players around him to make him look better. Especially with the bit right before it.
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I must say you could be right. At that time Scholes was excelling at second striker, although that may be giving Gerrard a bit too much credit.
 
pierrethesnack said:
No wonder. Greatest manager in the history of the PL says you're not a "top player" is bound to hurt. We all know it's not true though. He was a top player, just like Lampard, no matter what Fergie says.
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None of them - Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney etc etc - are though. None of them made any significant mark on World Cup tournaments, and rarely in the Euros. This is the plain truth about our top English/British talents: they're second-tier players, not world class, and are big fishes in a PL goldfish bowl. If not, where are their international tournament medals, where are their Ballon D'Or awards? I don't believe my opinion is even vaguely controversial.
 
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