Steven Gerrard Autobiography | Extracts

Christ, this book will cheer Liverpool fans up, by the sound of it.
 
It was my England debut, the day after I turned 20. I won my 100th England cap 12 years later, on November 14, 2012, in Stockholm. We lost 4–2, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic scoring all four.

Before the game, when asked to give my England career a rating out of 10, I suggested 'a six or a seven'. I was being honest rather than downbeat.

Outside of the 1966 World Cup-winning team, which other England players could honestly give themselves an eight or a nine? Maybe I would give some of Bobby Robson's team that reached the Italia 90 semi-final an eight. But there's no one else.
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"Fabio Capello, one of the England managers I enjoyed playing for, also said that he had been surprised by the mental frailty of England and I hoped he could do something about it. But soon enough the press were calling him Postman Pat and he'd f*cked off to Russia. I cried for myself."
 
Regarding signings:
"Of the bad ones, I don’t really want to waste time thinking about El Hadji Diouf but it’s worth highlighting his wasted seasons at Liverpool as an example of how it can all go wrong.

Gerard Houllier, a very good manager and a usually wise judge of character, signed Diouf in the summer of 2002. Gerard bought Diouf for £10m from Lens - solely on the recommendation of his former assistant, Patrice Bergues, who had coached Diouf there.

I understood why Gerard rushed through the signing, but he did not really know Diouf as a person. He was one of three new signings which were meant to turn Liverpool into Premier League champions.

We had finished as runners-up to Manchester United the season before and a combination of Diouf, Salif Diao and Bruno Cheyrou was supposed to drive us to the title. It was probably the biggest waste of £18m in Liverpool’s history."
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:lol::lol::lol:
 
The guy has a high opinion of himself. This book confirms why I disliked him so much.
 
Is it possible that he is actually living terrible life due to his own ego and being the kind of person he is? I can't believe some of the things he says, it's unbelieveable that a person of his age and status cares so much about some unimportant stuff, like the stuff with Parker or similar.
 
montpelier said:
His battling argonaut wisdom seems a bit on the inactive side regarding what's a good idea to put / not put in a book, doesn't it? Bloody hell.
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We learned something very important from the improvised penis surgery. The only time in Gerrard's life when he shrank from the cameras and did not want to be the center of attention was when a doctor sewed his dick back onto his body. I'm not sure exactly what that means but there you have it. Wouldn't a true viking warlord stitch his own cock back on in full view of his soldiers?

Amar__ said:
Is it possible that he is actually living terrible life due to his own ego and being the kind of person he is? I can't believe some of the things he says, it's unbelieveable that a person of his age and status cares so much about some unimportant stuff, like the stuff with Parker or similar.
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Even better, he remembered every single incident and argument, and wrote a book exposing all of them. Every private interaction with teammates and coaches is now public so he can settle all those scores with his picayune autobiography.
 
:lol::lol::lol::lol: What the feck is he publishing here? The Villa stuff, the Benitez press, Does Stevie like money?, Parker captain, sucide watch, Inches and stitches :lol:
 
Fair's feck to him, sounds like a decent autobiography as it stands. Good on him to highlight what a stupid decision Benitez made in alienating and then selling Alonso.

Just seen the cock story though, I mean seriously that was not needed.
 
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Bitching about other England players and how they acted over many years really winds me up - real leaders do something about it at the time...not write about it years later (without even naming them). In fact, his leadership seems non-existent in all the stories he's recalling.

Obviously there'll be no love for him on here but he really doesn't come across well at all.
 
Fergie has a very similar passage in his book about the Diouf, Diao and Cheyrou buys after they finished second. I seem to remember him writing that he was reasonably worried that Liverpool might rise to the challenge again before they made those terrible buys.
 
It was clear Alonso was royalty after our first training session together in August 2004, and Rafa Benitez, who had been so clever to buy him in the first place, was equally stupid to sell him to Real Madrid five years later.

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Our target in 2014 was ridiculously optimistic. Brendan asked me to take a crack at trying to talk Toni Kroos into signing for Liverpool. He smiled when I said we’d be p*****g into the wind with this one.
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I meant it, too, because the club only asked for my help if it was with a player I rated. But I always tried to persuade with honesty and respect and never mentioned anything about the player’s financial situation or the contract he could expect from Liverpool. The next text from Willian was so obvious I could have written it for him even before I read it. He again said that it would be great to play in the same team as me but ‘I’m not sure Liverpool can give me the Champions League.’ He went to Chelsea.
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:lol:

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SteveJ said:
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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To be fair, Jamie Vardy's England career has only just begun. Give him time...
 
izec said:
:lol::lol::lol::lol: What the feck is he publishing here? The Villa stuff, the Benitez press, Does Stevie like money?, Parker captain, sucide watch, Inches and stitches :lol:
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The 'utter filth' stuff is probably fake, and we still need clarification on what he actually said.
 
Scarecrow said:
Meh, he's right about most things. He comes of as an arrogant cnut but so what? Many people are. The fact that he was a great footballer doesn't take that right away from him.
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SteveJ said:
While it's surely true that his publisher might nudge him into spicing some incidents up, minor stuff like the Parker/Pearce thing barely register on the interest or controversy levels; it only succeeds in making Gerrad look worse, even if he's actually correct. It's not as if he'd struggle to get a publishing deal, so he could certainly insist on some editorial control...so why include self-damaging stuff like that? There's only one real conclusion.
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Obviously I'm a Utd-only fan but I'm fairly neutral when it comes to things on and off the pitch so I gotta say, you've got to give credt to his honesty (or stupidity/lack of tact) with what he's said.

First off it makes for good reading lol and secondly, it's refreshing to see someone of his talent and his place in Premier League history basically come out and say things like 'I'm a better player than xyz', 'the team should have been built around me' etc.

For all the things he says though, you can't deny to an extent that he's done his talking on the pitch though. He's mostly/always done of the job that's been asked of him for club and country; he's laid his unselfishness on the pitch as a professional. His personal thoughts are selfish and yet he's probably right with his criticisms in that, if things were more catered for him, he'd won/done more.

That's my view though.
 
criticalanalysis said:
Obviously I'm a Utd-only fan but I'm fairly neutral when it comes to things on and off the pitch so I gotta say, you've got to give credt to his honesty (or stupidity/lack of tact) with what he's said.

First off it makes for good reading lol and secondly, it's refreshing to see someone of his talent and his place in Premier League history basically come out and say things like 'I'm a better player than xyz', 'the team should have been built around me' etc.

For all the things he says though, you can't deny to an extent that he's done his talking on the pitch though. He's mostly/always done of the job that's been asked of him for club and country; he's laid his unselfishness on the pitch as a professional. His personal thoughts are selfish and yet he's probably right with his criticisms in that, if things were more catered for him, he'd won/done more.

That's my view though.
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I've always found him a pretty selfish player on the pitch really.
Well not selfish - he just didn't trust his team mates and tried to do way too much on his own.
It made a degree of sense when he was playing with biscan or some bum like that i guess but
Benitez never trusted him defensively or as part of the team shape, he put two good midfielders behind him to do that. He put him on the right wing for a bit before moving him up front.
He gets a lot of credit for the champions league win but the change came about by bringing hamann (sorry that spelling is probably a bit crap) on at half time and giving them a midfield to speak of, while gerrard wandered around the pitch trying to do everyone elses job for them (he did them pretty well to give him some credit).

Liverpool didn't deserve to win the league in any of the last 10 seasons imo.
Even the Alonso, Mascherano, Torres one had no cover for any of them 3 players for a start. I cant remember who was on the wings really, Luis Garcia who was 'ok'. The rest were forgettable. The entirety of the teams goals were basically in Gerrard and Torres and they got tired and injured and they struggled to beat teams, drawing too many.

The one a couple of years ago was a freak one really.
But Gerrard was on a decline starting that season, with the end being pretty embarrassing even leaving aside the obvious significant embarrassments.
He was shit for a lot of games towards the end and even worse in the WC. Their defence was non-existent and their midfield was ... pretty good going forwards actually (henderson, coutinho and sterling all got better the longer the season wore on)
But their defence was still rubbish and they were beat by a city team that were consistently good as opposed to doing an arsenal and having a good end to the season after a weak start (x10).
City having 5 games in hand or something silly helped it look closer than it was. They needed to win their next 5 games or so including against chelsea to be in with a chance.
 
I was driving home after getting a gash on my cock. It was still sore. I stuck my fave Phil Collins CD in, but knew deep down that I wouldn't be able to feel it coming in the air that night.
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Maybe not real
 
Some of these quotes are amazing :lol:

It reads like a parody.
 
''In 2013, the latest player in our sights was Willian, the Brazilian midfielder. I followed the usual routine when approaching a star player we wanted to sign. Instead of calling him directly I always sent a text. It seemed more respectful and allowed the player to read my message at a time when it suited him best. A cold call felt wrong.

I slipped into the groove with Willian. I said hello and hoped he didn’t mind me contacting him directly. I stressed how much I admired him as a player and then, having mentioned that I knew Liverpool were speaking to his agent, I used the standard line: ‘If you need to chat or ask any questions I’m available at any time....It was the opening move in a familiar game. ’'
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He sounds like a fecking online predator ffs :lol::lol:
 
''Our target in 2014 was ridiculously optimistic. Brendan asked me to take a crack at trying to talk Toni Kroos into signing for Liverpool. He smiled when I said we’d be p*****g into the wind with this one. We both admired Kroos immensely. I knew Real Madrid were gearing up to make Bayern Munich an offer and so I felt a bit awkward when I texted Kroos. The German was on his way to winning the World Cup with his country and Real were the champions of Europe. But God loves a trier, and so I gave it a whirl.''
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I've got to buy this book :lol::lol:
 
But, ultimately, Luis stands out. I would have loved to have played with Luis when I was a lot younger, and peaking, as we could have been phenomenal together for years. That’s my only tinge of regret with Suarez.

Here’s an example of what he did for me. On March 13, 2012 I scored a hat-trick at Anfield against Everton. It was the first hat-trick in 30 years of Merseyside derbies, since Ian Rush scored three at Goodison Park in 1982. It was made even better by the selfless magic Suarez sprinkled over me that night. Luis is no saint — and I’m not sure he would have done the same for Daniel Sturridge. There was always a little bit of needling rivalry between Sturridge and Suarez.
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Hmmz - I wonder why Suarez and Sturridge didn't get along :confused:
 
RAWK is not impressed. The closest parallel I can draw is The Punk and the Godfather from Quadrophenia. As Townshend describes the song:

Pete Townshend said:
The hero goes to a rock concert. He queues up, pays his money and he decides he is going to see the stars backstage as they come out the stage door. And one of them comes up and says 'feck off!' And he suddenly realizes that there's nothing really happening in rock & roll. It's just another cross on his list.
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Any chance he could stfu with this disrespectful shite.
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Coming across like a right bitter bellend. And for what? A few quid he doesn't need.
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Really not impressed with these stories from Gerrard, all for a silly ghost-written autobiography for the twitter generation.
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Did Gerrard want a football manager or a social worker? He's like a big kid at times.
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Think he's embarrassing himself with his eagerness to tell tales in this book.
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Stevie giving the rags a field day to bash Rafa and the club ..
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ffs this is getting too much now! Are all those quotes real? They can't be! Like there was a quiz on guessing if a certain dialogue has been said by Rodgers or David Brent, similar can be done to let people guess if it is quote from Gerrard autobiography or a parody.
 
pierrethesnack said:
The "MEMEMEME" attitude and ridiculously grandiose language aside, it actually looks like a decent biography. I mean, he talks about the stuff we all want to know, and he does see to be pretty honest and forthright about most things.
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Exactly, looks like the ghostwriter took a little too much liberty, and he certainly has high self-esteem, but its honest and funny.
 
Wait, if half this shit is real, I'm buying that fecking book and donating my money into the Steve G retirement fund.
 
Did he mention anything abt the incident where he gifted the goal to Drogba, essentially handling them the title?
 
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