Steven Gerrard

[MrMichael]

Arsenal walked through us playing a 3-5-2 variant. Top quality sides will just go through it

Agreed, please lets just stick with a regular back 4

He's been exceptionally fit over the last 18 months and lot of that has to do with our medical team but imo he should have been rested as 3 games in 7 days is a lot for 33-year old player.

That being said, he could have pulled the hamstring at any point in time so I am not sure BR should be blamed for that.

Fair post

[dww]

He's been exceptionally fit over the last 18 months and lot of that has to do with our medical team but imo he should have been rested as 3 games in 7 days is a lot for 33-year old player.

That being said, he could have pulled the hamstring at any point in time so I am not sure BR should be blamed for that.

A lot of people say 'it could have happened at any time' but that seems to me to massively miss the point of how probability/risk works. If playing a large number of games in close proximity to one another increases risk of such injuries then the problem is with the added chance of it happening. Nothing can usefully be said about the precise timing of an individual injury in those terms.

If there is evidence to suggest either that there is no correlation between number of games played in succession and hamstring injuries that would be interesting to see. It is certainly possible. I don't have any specialist knowledge that means I have a good idea of how plausible or otherwise that is.

It was raised earlier that there may be no evidence that aging players are injured more. I think there are good reasons to expect that they would be. How that refers to different types of injury is more open to question I would think.

[Pablo]

Why don't you write a thesis on it Dave? You'll have it finished just as Steven Gerrard retires

[Vermilion]

I wonder if that tackle where he lost his boot a game ago has anything to do with his injury, i said at the time he might feel it later on ?

Bloke caught the back of his heel, then when Gerrard went down another player landed on him.

[dww]

Why don't you write a thesis on it Dave? You'll have it finished just as Steven Gerrard retires

I already have my PhD, I'm saving it for a monograph.

[Sarb]

Gerrard named founding partner of children's charity after donating half a MILLION to Liverpool hospital

Steven Gerrard has been named a founding partner of Alder Hey Children's Charity after making a £500,000 donation to the Liverpool hospital.
The Liverpool captain raised more than £1million following his testimonial game against Olympiakos and subsequent gala dinner in August.
Alder Hey is a pillar in the Merseyside community, treating more than 200,000 children from the Northwest each year, and enjoys tremendous support from the city's football teams. It will move to a new site in 2015, adjacent to the current building.

Gerrard wanted the people of Liverpool to see where the money that was raised in August was invested and Alder Hey were eager to recognise his backing.
'It's a great privilege to be able to be involved with Alder Hey and their charity,' said Gerrard
'The money we have donated from my foundation was raised during my testimonial earlier this year.

nice one Gerald


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-hospital.html

This is brilliant

I love the guy

[BigChief]

Respect to him. The embodiment of LFC and Liverpool in general.

[Vermilion]

legend

[Buzzo]

We are going to miss him.

[Bender]

This Is Anfield @thisisanfield 1m
Steven Gerrard: "I'll be back in training within a week, probably a week after that i'll be back!" via @5timesco #LFC

[baitman]

back on the bench

[Fosterbloke]

back on the bench

Better believe it!

[magicalbarnes]

Hopefully he's back against Hull.

It will be a massive confidence boost for the team after our two disappointing losses.

[Reece]

We're going to need him what with our players dropping like flies.

[dww]

Also his set pieces have been great this season. The quality of others has been really shown up in his absence IMO.