the times when his strength of personality allied to innate football skill and physical prowess provided the blood, bone and sinew to the Reds performances are too many to mention.īut as much as it is his performances on the football field which elevates him to the very top echelon of the LFC pantheon, as well as among his contemporaries away from Anfield, it is the fact he spent virtually the entirety of his playing career with his boyhood club - during a relatively undistinguished era, by Liverpool’s standards anyway - that provides a strong basis on which his legend and legacy is founded on. Gerard Houllier’s treble, the miracle of Istanbul, the ‘Gerrard’ FA Cup final.
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What is without doubt to surely anyone privileged enough to watch him in a Red shirt over a stellar professional career at Anfield which spanned close on 17 years is that during that period the boy who grew up on a council estate in Huyton was a force of nature who carried the club during its darkest moments and inspired its most meteoric heights. The greatest player in the club’s history? It’s a timeless and endless debate that will probably never reach a truly definitive consensus. It is what it is.For as long as there is a Liverpool Football Club, tales will told about the exploits of Steven George Gerrard. "What's important is the chance to go to Anfield and win and try and take maximum points, which is the attitude and mentality we'll have going into every game. "I don't think me or anyone else will be able to control the noise," he said. Gerrard, considered one of the greatest players in the Premier League era, said there would be no split emotions when he takes his new side to Anfield. He takes his side to face Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool on December 11 and also has tough fixtures against Manchester City and Chelsea next month.
The former England international's first game will be at home to Graham Potter's Brighton on Saturday, following the current international break. I played with Ashley Young, who I've spoken to, I know Danny Ings very well from his time at Liverpool when I was a coach." "I know many of the players, I played for England with a lot of the players. "I think coming to Villa, competing against Villa for many, many years, I know the size of the club, I know the standards that are already here," he said. Gerrard, who steered Rangers to their first Scottish title in a decade last season, said the opportunity to take over at such an "iconic" club was too good to turn down. "I'm very hungry, very ambitious and the start can't come quickly enough."
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