Steven Gerrard

[RichC]

Classy

[Tee]

with a bit of encouragement im sure the rest of the team could have done a bit more to see a club legend had a proper send off.......Instead we got the usual gutless bolloxless ****e..............sorry Stevie

They don't give a ****, earn a fortune that's all they care about. Gutted for Stevie

[brightred]

His head went last season. The legs went this season.

Saying that, I don't think Allen or Henderson looked any better today, what was their excuse?

Henderson for captain? He can't even take a decent corner.

[Tribute]

Pleased Gerrard got to play one final time at Wembley albeit in a semifinal not the final itself.

He's been an outstanding servant to the club and may even manage it one day in the future. Carra/Hyypia as defensive coaches, obviously...

He'll play in the last home game, maybe even get brought off before the end (finally!!) for a 5 mins standing ovation. He deserves it.

Next season unfortunately will have to start with significant change again and expectations reduced to 'top half' in the first season. Rodgers may go, or he may stay with a more experienced team coming in to further strangle/support him. Transfers will be lacklustre if he stays.

I still hold out hope FSG show commercial strength and bring in a manager who has experience and an appetite to shove every other Premier League team 'off their collective perches" - that may be Klopp or someone equally driven.

The summer will be the test of FSG's mettle to see just how much they want us to be challenging again....

[EwarWoo]

Henderson for captain? He can't even take a decent corner.

Huh? What on earth does taking corners have to do with being captain?

Even on a day of ridiculous hyperbole this stands out as the biggest ****e I've read so far.

[little dave hedgehog]

especially since gerrard's corners were often terrible enough in their own right.

[Redspin]

His head went last season. The legs went this season.

Saying that, I don't think Allen or Henderson looked any better today, what was their excuse?

Allen and Henderson get shunted around so that Gerrard can play in the centre. The midfield always looks much worse when Gerrard plays, of that there can't really be any argument. It's not a coincidence.

My old man used to tell me about the final season or two of another legend, Billy Liddell. He said that his presence in the team intimidated a lot of the others and he tried to do everything himelf, ending up taking all the corners and free-kicks. My dad swore that he tried to take all the throw-ins too. In the end it was a relief when he retired and the team could move forward. Sound familiar?

[Redspin]

Henderson for captain? He can't even take a decent corner.

Well he's got big shoes to step into in that regard. Gerrard must have set the record for picking out the first defender at the near post. If it miraculously gets past the defender it's always a safe catch for the goalie.

All his corners yesterday followed the same pattern. He's a dreadful corner taker yet he's been first choice at taking them for a decade at least. It's quite bewildering, but obviously a key reason why we seem to get fewer goals from corners than other teams

[Harv]

Shouldn't be playing in the first place. This sentimental bull**** is killing us. When Balo came on at HT and Stevie moved into the deep lying "playmaker" role i muttered to myself watch him pin long ball after long ball to nobody, and hey presto thats what we saw for 40minutes.

[Nicey]

Everytime Gerrard plays Hendo seems to shrink .... I can understand why - but its a worry all the same ... Emre Can seems to have a natural leadership about him regardless of his performace yesterday ...

Honestly after getting sent off after 45 sec's against United .. to put in that kind of performance ... I am beyond caring about Gerrard now ... Legend, thanks but hes not good enough to start now, Happy to see him coming off the bench ... but this is not Gerrard FC and we are not here to make sure he's leaving tour is a happy one

[Nicey]

I was ****ing numb after watching that ****e yesterday .. just ****ing numb

[Alex]

Allen and Henderson get shunted around so that Gerrard can play in the centre. The midfield always looks much worse when Gerrard plays, of that there can't really be any argument. It's not a coincidence.

My old man used to tell me about the final season or two of another legend, Billy Liddell. He said that his presence in the team intimidated a lot of the others and he tried to do everything himelf, ending up taking all the corners and free-kicks. My dad swore that he tried to take all the throw-ins too. In the end it was a relief when he retired and the team could move forward. Sound familiar?

Not really. Gerrard has been injured and out of the side most of this season and the latter half of last season he was playing very well.

Forcing him into the side at the expense of better players is silly. But thats not really been happening.

[The_weatherman]

Not really. Gerrard has been injured and out of the side most of this season and the latter half of last season he was playing very well.

Forcing him into the side at the expense of better players is silly. But thats not really been happening.

Have to agree with Redspin, I felt that was exactly the situation the first half of the season.

[The Birdman]

You can multiply the hysteria of being knocked out by 100 if Rodgers hadn't started Gerrard at Wembley.
That's the ****ing circus we're dealing with these days, an undisputed great of the club but I'll be glad next season when we can focus on the team not 1 player every ******* week.

[Chris]

Get out of our club you old ****ing scumbag!!!