Steven Gerrard

[Lecter]

They all went missing, and then when Gerrard appeared, he went missing within 38 seconds

And yet hes rescued us in the last 2 games

[cream]

I think he'll be great with the kids. Get him working with the u21's for a couple of years then give him the top job. Carra can be his no 2.

[G]

Having missed out as a player would be great for it to be him that finally leads us to a title as a manager. I don't want to wait that long though

[Tee]

Alonso and Gerrard dream management team one day (Stevie as Assistant )

[Alex]

All gone now

[-V-]

If he comes back as a manager and has a bad first season then its going to put pressure on him again. I would suggest we should bring him back as a Director of Football who is responsible for recruitment and overseeing a head coach. I would trust Stevie to sign the right players for the team

[Vermilion]

Just don't get how any fan could have any criticism at all of this man.

Some even seem to have an ingrained resentment towards him, saying things like...'oh he got paid a bundle' etc, but all top players get paid a bundle, but very few continue for 17yrs with the type of consistency Gerrard did.

ps. not aimed at anyone here, just a feeling i get when reading fans comments about him on't web.

[Tee]

He is truly an untouchable. Only Kenny comes close or equal to the man.

[G]

Just don't get how any fan could have any criticism at all of this man.

Some even seem to have an ingrained resentment towards him, saying things like...'oh he got paid a bundle' etc, but all top players get paid a bundle, but very few continue for 17yrs with the type of consistency Gerrard did.

There all bellends ingrained in all walks of life. Some people are just cunts.

[Vermilion]

He is truly an untouchable. Only Kenny comes close or equal to the man.

There all bellends ingrained in all walks of life. Some people are just cunts.

[rodo]

Scrutinise every touch. Savour every pass. Cherish every moment.

If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket for the biggest show in town tomorrow night, soak up every single minute of Steven Gerrard’s Anfield swansong.

Because you really won’t see his likes again.

Not at Anfield.

Not in a Liverpool shirt.

Not ever.

Because football is changing and Steven George Gerrard really is the last of the local heroes - a comic book hero in a website age.

Tomorrow he will step out at Anfield for the 709th - and final - time as a Liverpool player.

And you really won’t see his likes again.


Look at the evidence.

There is a possibility, albeit receding with every generation, that another footballer may spend 17 years at Anfield.

There’s a chance that some time in the dim and distant future another man may play more than 700 times for the Reds - although the man with the current next best long-playing record is Lucas, on 273 appearances.

And we can hope that one day Liverpool may develop another home-grown talent who will go on to captain club and country.

But I think we can safely declare that no single individual will do all three – it's taken 123 years for Gerrard to become the first.

He's also scored 185 goals, lifted seven major trophies and turned around countless lost causes through the sheer power of his own indomitable will and talent.

And on top of all that, he’s a Scouser too, a product of this city, a kid who honed his talent on the Bluebell estate in Huyton.


I won’t get involved in the arguments as to who is the greatest footballer in Liverpool’s history - because there is no right and wrong answer.

But there are really only three contenders.

Billy Liddell and Kenny Dalglish are Scots.

Steven Gerrard is a homegrown Scouser. One of us.

That much was clearly evident on his eighth appearance as a Liverpool footballer – and my first sighting of him – in an Anfield derby match.

Derby matches are peculiar parochial occasions.

But he got it from the word go.

On for the final 19 minutes of a typically frenzied affair, Gerrard cleared a last minute Danny Cadamarteri shot off the line and celebrated like he’d just won the Champions League.

A huge talent matched with an endearing ordinariness
He’d have to wait another six years for that, but the passion, the desire, the burning will to win had already marked him out.

And then you added that prodigious talent.

Talent which saw him leather one in from 30 yards in a League Cup final, talent which saw him head a goal in a Champions League final from 12 yards and talent which enabled him to score the sweetest, crispest, unlikeliest equaliser an FA Cup final has ever seen.

But mixed in with that passion and that talent was an endearing ordinariness.

He allowed a TV camera into his home in 2006, where he showed an interviewer his personal trophy cabinet, before turning off the lights saying “Switch them off. Got to save on the Leccy,” shortly after bemoaning why he could “never find his socks in this house.”

They were words you heard mentioned every day in every house on Merseyside.

Like every ordinary bloke he's suffered temptation, too. Witness his Chelsea dilemma of 2005.

He’s endured moments he’d rather forget, an altercation in a Southport bar, gruesome tackles which led to red cards and that fateful slip.

But while those moments all reinforced his ordinariness, they are spectacularly outnumbered by the moments of genuine greatness he has displayed on a football field.

There are simply too many to list - although one of my personal favourites comes from left-field – a penalty kick in a Champions League quarter-final, 60 seconds after Arsenal had just drawn level to boast an away goal advantage at Anfield.

Steven Gerrard had missed his last but one penalty in Marseille and this one was a sick-in the-stomach nerve shredder, but he arrowed it into the top corner with the arrogance and surefootedness of Souness in Rome '84.

Cry if you want but just make sure you enjoy it
Souness was a world class playmaker. But Gerrard was even more influential at Anfield.

He ended that 2007/08 season with 21 goals.

He scored 24 the following campaign – at a time when his swashbuckling powers were at their peak. But to simply list his goals tally wouldn't do his immense powers justice.

Most magnificent footballers are measured by the number of great games they play throughout their career. In Steven Gerrard's case it is more accurate to measure the number of great seasons he has enjoyed.

His 17th and final campaign is almost at an end.

Jamie Carragher has already dispensed some well-meaning advice to his close pal: He said: “Don't cry like Sami Hyypia did.”

My advice to everyone inside Anfield tomorrow is cry if you want to, but make sure you enjoy it while you can, because as Joni Mitchell so memorably crooned: “You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.”

And after Saturday night Steven Gerrard will be gone from Anfield for good.

We won't see his likes ever again.

[Doc_Piptorious]

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[Paddy]

Don't plague the thread with that drooling cunt.

[Tee]

Any chance the Palace fans refrain from singing that ****ing dong tomorrow? ****ing hope the Kop drowns it out but the cunts at Sky always stick their mic right by the away fans.

[Yozza]

Steven Gerrard quiz - name the team-mates

17 seasons, 17 Steven Gerrard team-mates

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32752650

17/17 - fairly easy though.....