To be 100% honest I don’t really know how I ended up supporting Liverpool. My Dad supports Leeds (like every man who is over the age of 40) and there’s no other Liverpool supporters among my Grandad’s or Uncles, I think it just came to a point as a kid when my Dad told me it was time to pick a team and stick with it. Quickly I became obsessed and from an early age I had to have the newest Liverpool jersey the day it came out and ‘Gerrard’ was always the name printed on the back, I still have all those jersey’s to this day!
Unfortunately I can’t actually remember the 2005 Champions League final but I still watch the highlights on YouTube to this day. Though, I do remember the 2006 FA cup final when Gerrard single handedly won the FA cup for Liverpool, I think that was the day I really fell in love with the game. Over the years, I’ve regularly asked to play Central Midfield as I wanted to model my game around Gerrard’s but every time I got the opportunity I quickly realised that if I had any chance of having a reasonable career then I’d have to stay at the back.
He could do everything, tackle, score, head, if I wanted to design the perfect Midfielder then I would design Steven Gerrard. What I loved most about him was his passion for the club and how much he wanted to win. It’s a real shame he never got a Premier League’s winners medal and that 13/14 season has haunted me just as much as anyone else since. Being a Celtic supporter also, hasn’t made it easy watching him take charge of Rangers but that will never put a shadow in my eyes over what he done for Liverpool.
A case for the defence 