Steven Gerrard Autobiography | Extracts

To sell an autobiography you have to juice it up with some sensational stuff and I'm sure he's been influenced by the publishers to big up some of those stories

So I take it all with a pinch of salt

Gerrard was a great player for Liverpool and I'm sad for him about 'the slip' and what might have been

I wouldn't have begrudged him winning the title that season

Some of you on here sadly are so partisan that it's clouded your judgment resorting instead to unfair knee jerk abuse and vitriol

Hardly edifying is it?

Give the man his due
 
David Court said:
To sell an autobiography you have to juice it up with some sensational stuff and I'm sure he's been influenced by the publishers to big up some of those stories

So I take it all with a pinch of salt

Gerrard was a great player for Liverpool and I'm sad for him about 'the slip' and what might have been

I wouldn't have begrudged him winning the title that season

Some of you on here sadly are so partisan that it's clouded your judgment resorting instead to unfair knee jerk abuse and vitriol

Hardly edifying is it?

Give the man his due
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:lol: If all those quotes and excerpts are true then it will be a hilarious read.
 
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."
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:lol: Whoever wrote this is dogshit.

It's also no surprise that Gerrard is a massive bellend but never gets called out for it by the masses, a lot of whom still think it would have been nice to see him lift the Premiership trophy.
 
David Court said:
To sell an autobiography you have to juice it up with some sensational stuff and I'm sure he's been influenced by the publishers to big up some of those stories
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Juice it up baby, take it all with a shovel of non-slip salt. Yeah. Juice it up, I say.
 
David Court said:
To sell an autobiography you have to juice it up with some sensational stuff and I'm sure he's been influenced by the publishers to big up some of those stories

So I take it all with a pinch of salt

Gerrard was a great player for Liverpool and I'm sad for him about 'the slip' and what might have been

I wouldn't have begrudged him winning the title that season

Some of you on here sadly are so partisan that it's clouded your judgment resorting instead to unfair knee jerk abuse and vitriol

Hardly edifying is it?

Give the man his due
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*bullshit gif*
 
For more than 26 years, I had always felt compelled to show fire towards them. They were the enemy.Their shirt is the only one I won't allow in my house. I have a big collection of shirts I've swapped with other players from different clubs — but not one from United.

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Bitter, bitter feck! :devil:

Does he think anyone apart from him really gives a flying feck what shirts he has in his collection

I have a big collection of shirts- " .
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My god some of these quotes. I might have to read the book to see if there is more stuff like this. I almost can't believe that someone would talk like that.
 
Inigo Montoya said:
For more than 26 years, I had always felt compelled to show fire towards them. They were the enemy.Their shirt is the only one I won't allow in my house. I have a big collection of shirts I've swapped with other players from different clubs — but not one from United.
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Likely a sore point seeing those gold league winners badges on the sleeves
 
kid777 said:
:lol: :lol:

Please tell me those quotes are not real and people are just taking piss.
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The ghost written passages are so poor, it's laughable. Trying to make isolated incidents sound exciting, when the guys's career can be encapsulated into one great season and in reality, one competition is pathetic.

Soon to be available in good charity shops near you!
 
'Steve Gerrard, Gerrard... he slipped on his f****** arse, he gave it to Demba Ba... Steve Gerrard, Gerrard...'

Should have been the title of his autobiography
 
Slippy G said:
Scott Parker is a good player and honest; I’ve got a lot of respect for Scott as a player and a person. But to pick Scott Parker as England captain ahead of me?
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:lol: Loves himself.
 
What a ducking arrogant cnut, I didn't think I could hate him any more then he comes out with more crap. The reason it was Scott Parker you utter bell whiff is that he doesn't assault dj, doesn't try to shape the entire world around him, isn't mired in self pity and grand delusion and isn't you you utter ass fish.
 
During those distressing days when I felt so torn about whether or not I should stay or go I never once thought to myself, 'I want to play for Chelsea instead of Liverpool'. My head was almost turned because I was thinking, 'I'd love to play for Jose Mourinho'. I was certain that, under Jose, I would win all the trophies I craved.

Between July 2005 and May 2015 Chelsea won the Champions League, two Premier League titles, four FA Cups, the Europa League and two League Cups. That's 10 big trophies.

In that same period at Liverpool, I have won an FA Cup and a League Cup. Chelsea 10, Liverpool 2.
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He seems full of regret, bitterness and narcissism throughout the excerpts.

If he had played for a better manager I'm sure he would have won the trophies he so obviously still regrets not getting and that his game would have developed to the point where he did not think that he needed to be superman because his teammates were shit.
 
Scott Parker is a good player and honest; I’ve got a lot of respect for Scott as a player and a person. But to pick Scott Parker as England captain ahead of me?

don’t know whether it was a dig at Liverpool or something more personal — but my overall perception was Pearce was doing some muscle-flexing in the toilet mirrors.

My guess is it was a decision designed to focus attention on him, his way of saying: ‘This is me. I’m in charge.’

I might have had misgivings about his tactical insights as a coach, but I respected Pearce until that moment. I felt he treated me very badly. It was insulting — and wrong. I thought it was selfish. It was a political decision to make everyone think he had balls.

It was clear in team meetings Pearce wanted to impress and get a crack at the job for Euro 2012.

But I think the decision he shared with me in a toilet was one of the reasons he never got the position he craved.
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what an absolute bellend. Victim, dillusion, arrogance
 
Scott Parker won the league with Chelsea.

He was also Premier League player of the month in Feb 11 and Nov 11. He had momentum and while Pearce's decision looks suspect now, at the time, it had some momentum.*

* I did not agree with it. Just saying.
 
David Court said:
To sell an autobiography you have to juice it up with some sensational stuff and I'm sure he's been influenced by the publishers to big up some of those stories

So I take it all with a pinch of salt

Gerrard was a great player for Liverpool and I'm sad for him about 'the slip' and what might have been

I wouldn't have begrudged him winning the title that season

Some of you on here sadly are so partisan that it's clouded your judgment resorting instead to unfair knee jerk abuse and vitriol

Hardly edifying is it?

Give the man his due
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Seriously ?
 
"But to pick Scott Parker as England captain ahead of me?

I don’t know whether it was a dig at Liverpool or something more personal — but my overall perception was Pearce was doing some muscle-flexing in the toilet mirrors."
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‘Okay’, I nodded. ‘I respect your decision’,” Gerrard wrote. “We left it at that. I walked out and got ready for training. My mind was swimming. I couldn’t believe it. It felt to me, then, like a classic case of muscle-flexing.

“My relationship with Brendan was too good for him to need to make a point to me. He was someone I respected and liked: his training sessions were among the best I had ever experienced while his man-management was excellent, generous and imaginative.

“But I wondered if this was his way of showing the press that he was strong enough to make a difficult decision.”
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He is coming off as even more pompous and self-absorbed than before.
 
I don’t know whether it was a dig at Liverpool or something more personal — but my overall perception was the DJ was doing some muscle-flexing by refusing to play Phil Collins.

My guess is it was a decision designed to focus attention on him, his way of saying: ‘This is me. I’m in charge.’ So I twatted him.
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Sweet lord!

Couldn't come across as more delusional, bitter, self entitled and arrogant if he tried.
 
Those quotes arent real are they? I refuse to believe it!

EDIT not Tarrous one (which is clearly a fake, i hope...) the others
 
Is this out now? Im about to fly back to Australia and would love to read this on the way. Id imagine it would be very uplifting for a United fan hahaha
 
What is it with all these comments about muscle flexing? He is not crowning himself with any glory what so ever here, he's just making himself look a bigger twat than he already is. People criticised SAF's autobiography surely this is getting to be crucified going by the amount of crap that's been taken out of it already. Whoever wastes their money on this self obsessed garbage is an idiot.
 
I don’t know whether it was a dig at Liverpool or something more personal — but my overall perception was that the 10-year-old boy was doing some muscle-flexing by crossing the road in front of me.

My guess is it was a decision designed to focus attention on him, his way of saying: ‘This is me. I’m in charge.’ So I pressed down on the accelerator of my £175,000 Bentley Continental Convertible and mowed the little twat down. He needs to understand that this is my turf 'cause it's not just on the pitch that I wear the captain's arm band.
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Inigo Montoya said:
For more than 26 years, I had always felt compelled to show fire towards them. They were the enemy.Their shirt is the only one I won't allow in my house. I have a big collection of shirts I've swapped with other players from different clubs — but not one from United.
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Bet he sleeps in the Chelsea one dreaming of what could have been.
 
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