Tickets for Steven Gerrard's final home game for Liverpool this weekend are on sale for more than £1,300. (Source: BBC Football website) Anyway, where does the average Mouser get that amount of money from? There's going to be a lot of churches without their roofs, on Merseyside, very shortly!
I hate the idea that we might be reverting to simplistic stereotypes, NSS, but the thieving nature of the average Mouser has been well documented, in hard-hitting documentaries, such as Carla Lane's "Bread."
Here's an interesting set of facts that I found somewhere:- World's greatest top 5 divers:- Jacques Cousteau (legendary French deep sea explorer) Steve Irwin (Australian naturalist) Greg Louganis (legendary American Olympic multi-gold high-board medalist) Guo Jingjing (legendary Chinese woman Olympic multi-gold 3 metre-board medalist) Steven Gerrard (legendary cheat) You cannot argue with facts.
Some might have been tempted to pay £1,300 to see Slippery G f*** off 10 years ago (Chelsea fans, for example), but who gives a monkeys now? He retired two seasons ago, didn't he?
Christ, did anyone else see Mark Lawrenson on the news earlier? He looked terrible. So bad that I almost wish the BBC gave him his pundit job back, just to make sure he's okay.
Former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann says Steven Gerrard, 34, is likely to be the last top player to spend all his career at one club. This is the same Steven Gerrard who will be playing for the LA Galaxy next season, right?
I feel a bit sorry for him, most of the stick he gets is because the media exaggerate how good he is. In his prime he was excellent but Suarez and Xabi Alonso were both much better players for Liverpool.
I find him so arrogant when he is interviewed...when he scored a header v qpr a couple of weeks ago an interviewer asked if it was his best headed goal and he couldn't help making a sarky comment like "well I did score a header in the CL final" ...twat! his leaving announcement has been a 6 month vanity project that has seriously gone arse over tits... Glad he didn't get his written in the stars wembley final...and his sending off in man utd game will make me smile for many a year
In view of your comments, I feel almost embarrassed to say I think he is one of the true legends of the modern day game. At his best, I would say he is one of the finest midfielders I have seen.
Credit where it's due, he's been a great player, but carrying an ordinary team and surrounded by hype because of what his predecessors at the club achieved. He never won the title because he never played for the best team in the country. He won the CL, but it's a knockout comp and you can get lucky - as they did. They finished 5th in the PL, but were supposedly Europe's best. Er, no.
If Mourinho tried to sign him 2-3 times, as he claims, then he has to have been something special. Mourinho doesn't chase dross.
Would not disagree mate...he was a fantastic player up until this season...and imo has been the best midfielder in the last 30 years in England. just think he is a twat too
It's almost as embarrassing as Gooners banging on about the so-called "Invincible." The very same "Invincibles" who, eventually, got beaten.
Gerrard for me is up there with Scholes and Lampard as the best 3 English midfielders, and probably overall players, of their generation. While there have been better players than Gerrard in a technical sense, there are few players capable of dragging average teams to a win like he has done for Liverpool. Scholes and Lampard have by and large played with far better players throughout their club careers but that Gerrard is in their bracket despite never winning the League speaks volumes about the player who although now past his best still has a bit of an aura about him. Whenever Gerrard is on the pitch in a Liverpool shirt you feel there is a chance of them getting something from a situation, like we had with Bale in his last season with us. He will be remembered by many of us non-Liverpool fans for what he didn't win, especially his slip last season, but I think that as the last remaining symbol of Liverpool's 'Sky 4' period in English football, his moving on is noteworthy. I grew up with a top 4 of Chelsea, Arsenal, United and Liverpool and Gerrard made Liverpool Liverpool for me. It'll be odd to think of them without him there and even though he isn't the player he once was his absence will have a big effect on the club, whether positive or negative remains to be seen.
Rats leaving a sinking ship? The news is that Sterling is going to announce to the Mouser faithful that he's ****ing off in the Summer - though no one quite knows where, at the moment. First Slippy, now Sterling. This list is endless. Could this be the end of 'Pool as a semi-major force in Prem mid-table football, I wonder?
