Quote: 100% Wire "Nearly spewing at all the Gerrard love-in nonsense on the BBC love text. Absolutely horrendous'"
Ridiculous isn't it. I can understand Liverpool giving him a bit of a fanfare. He's been a borderline great for them.
Not a player I've ever really rated that highly, of course he was in the top end of PL players in his prime, but was never world class. Despite the worshiping on the BBC and elsewhere over the weekend, there is a reason Liverpool didn't want to give him a new contract, he didn't warrant it. He's been average for a few years, his much heralded transition into Andrea Pirlo never happened and he was a liability for Liverpool in the deeper role. He'll be immortalised by Liverpool fans for being the best player in the world ever and remembered by everyone else for the slip that cost Liverpool the title. His personal life wasn't without incident either and only his Liverpool FC captain status kept him out of prison, which was wrong.
There should be far more being made of Frank Lampard's exit from English football than Slippy G's IMO.