Steven Gerrard

The acclaim will be over the top today, with everyone trying to out do each other with a better tribute.
So here's mine.

Of all the modern home grown greats , The Nevilles, Lampard, Terry, Giggs, Scholes etc. nobody has had more of an influence on one team. That's not to say one is better than the other. But take any of Utd or Chelsea's lads away and they probably would have went on to the same level of success, as the club would have found a replacement......Beckham out, Ronaldo in.

For years, Gerrard has been the main man that the opposition had to stop. He has played with a handful of world class players over 15 years.
At one stage Giggs and Scholes had Tevez, Ronaldo and Rooney ahead of them. That's not their fault and not using it as a stick to beat them with......but for years the opposition playing Liverpool had only one man to stop, and that was Gerrard. AC Milan couldn't do it when they were 3 up.

When he walks out today , a lot of board members, past and present should hang their head in shame that they have failed Gerrard. Uniteds board over the years had vision to build Old Trafford piece by piece to the largest ground in England. Liverpool are now planning an extension. One which will see their income rise to just 2 million less than Old Trafford per home game, as opposed to over 3.


United built a theatre of dreams and filled it with world class talent for Giggs etc to flourish.

Gerrard was playing with...Sinama Pongolle, Aspas, Aquilani and Andy Voronin.

In truth ! Liverpool failed Gerrard and they should be ashamed.

He will be extra hollywood today. He will love it

It is when it affects performance. I mean you could argue CR7 does it but it benefits the team. Having one player making everything about him all the time has deprived Liverpool over the past decade

I'd say today will be more of the same too

athlonecelt wrote: I know. The deprivation he put the club through. That time he took the penalty instead of letting Andy Voronin get the scoring feeling. Or that time he asked Sky to interview him after the match when Sean Dundee had been man of the match and Gerrard just took over. The time he told England that he was captain or else he was going home. Lifting the Champions league trophy first and not letting Traore lift it Putting in a performance to label the Fa Cup final the ' Gerrard Final ' , writing to the media asking them to refer to it as the Gerrard final. Asking Mourinho to sign him 3 times when he could have asked Mourinho to sign Bruno Cheyrou. Imagine what that could have done for Cheyrous confidence and spurred him on at Anfield. But no it was only about Stevie me going to Chelsea. The bastard

He didn't go to Chelsea as he would have been found out.

Good lad

He stayed because he loved Liverpool so much

Just done his hamstring in the warm up!

Not sure about this pitch side pre match interview. Get on with it ffs!