Oh dear, Gerrard and the press...

[Chewie]

nothing scandalous but having just flicked onto news now all the main papers are running with some sort of headline about gerrard and how he destroyed PSV...

 

it's totally out of the lad's control but it seems that after he was the only english player to emerge with much credit after the recent internationals he is now the darling of the press...cue more attention...cue endless debate about centre-mid -v- right hand side...cue gerrard getting more exposure than other world class team-mates....then cue the backlash, not least on the forums...

 

from a team's perspective it means Rafa can get on with building things quietly and so add young quality players like Agger and Mascherano to the set-up without either barely getting noticed...but it does focus a lot of the attention on Stevie and unfortunately for him it is that very same attention that causes even his own fans to get fed up with him...

 

the guy cannot win... he was active but hardly the sole match winner tonight and yet he gets lauded by the press out of all proportion, leading to the pendulum swinging the other way with people minimizing his role and impact...

 

I'm just glad he's ours and hopeful that the pedestal he is being placed on in the absence of Beckham and without any seeming great young hope on the horizon isn't one that we get sucked into - either to put him on it or to knock him off it...

 

YNWA

 

Chewie

[Romario]

Funny thing is Crouch will be Englands saviour in their up and coming games outscoring Rooney 10/0 so far. Ya gotta laugh.

[Elisha_Scott]

nothing scandalous but having just flicked onto news now all the main papers are running with some sort of headline about gerrard and how he destroyed PSV...

 

it's totally out of the lad's control but it seems that after he was the only english player to emerge with much credit after the recent internationals he is now the darling of the press...cue more attention...cue endless debate about centre-mid -v- right hand side...cue gerrard getting more exposure than other world class team-mates....then cue the backlash, not least on the forums...

 

from a team's perspective it means Rafa can get on with building things quietly and so add young quality players like Agger and Mascherano to the set-up without either barely getting noticed...but it does focus a lot of the attention on Stevie and unfortunately for him it is that very same attention that causes even his own fans to get fed up with him...

 

the guy cannot win... he was active but hardly the sole match winner tonight and yet he gets lauded by the press out of all proportion, leading to the pendulum swinging the other way with people minimizing his role and impact...

 

I'm just glad he's ours and hopeful that the pedestal he is being placed on in the absence of Beckham and without any seeming great young hope on the horizon isn't one that we get sucked into - either to put him on it or to knock him off it...

 

YNWA

 

Chewie

 

He wont be arsed mate, he knows the score.

[sean]

Where's his 2 footed lunge/tackle gone? I miss that.

[sutty]

He's the current Robson. But better, obviously.

[Earl Hafler]

He wont be arsed mate, he knows the score

 

Hardcore ?

 

 

It's worse now because the numpties who appear on Jimmy Hill's programme on Sky are using Gerrard to whack Lampard and hit the nails into McLaren's coffin.

Edited April 3, 2007 by Big Stuff

[sutty]

He wont be arsed mate, he knows the score

 

Hardcore ?

It's worse now because the numpties who appear on Jimmy Hill's programme on Sky are using Gerrard to whack Lampard and hit the nails into McLaren's coffin.

COuldn't give a f*** about the latter, unless it hurts his head.

[Chewie]

He wont be arsed mate, he knows the score.

 

Fair enough then - that's that sorted

 

just bugs me that we as 'fans' get sucked into this...it was the same with Mikey. Fair enough, he loved playing for England - why wouldn't he...but I always think he never quite got the adulation that others did because he became England's 'property' at a really young age...whereas say Robbie didn't and so was 'one of ours' in a way that Mikey supposedly wasn't.... try being in that lad's position aged 18 and ask if you would have handled it any better...

 

the same with Stevie - the minute he gets any focus for anything other than Liverpool and we start to get sucked into playing his role down for Liverpool...it's just daft...

 

anyway - glad it doesn't bother him, I just hate the stupidity sometimes of our own short-sightedness when we feel the need to knock someone off a pedestal that is not of their own making...

 

Chewie

[hideNseek]

Fair enough then - that's that sorted

 

just bugs me that we as 'fans' get sucked into this...it was the same with Mikey. Fair enough, he loved playing for England - why wouldn't he...but I always think he never quite got the adulation that others did because he became England's 'property' at a really young age...whereas say Robbie didn't and so was 'one of ours' in a way that Mikey supposedly wasn't.... try being in that lad's position aged 18 and ask if you would have handled it any better...

 

the same with Stevie - the minute he gets any focus for anything other than Liverpool and we start to get sucked into playing his role down for Liverpool...it's just daft...

 

anyway - glad it doesn't bother him, I just hate the stupidity sometimes of our own short-sightedness when we feel the need to knock someone off a pedestal that is not of their own making...

 

Chewie

 

Not everyone gets sucked in.

[Chewie]

Not everyone gets sucked in.

 

yeah - true, thankfully

 

here's to Stevie and the squad rafa is building...no mockers intended but we are 4 games away from stevie lifting the European Cup for the second time...in 10 years time when the offal run the 100 players that shook the Kop again..he'll be number one...

 

and hopefully we'll be sitting back and ethusing over the world class defenders - the Agger / Carra partnership - Stevie / Alonso Mascherano / Momo being the best quintet of midfielders in the world,,, and then the rest that Rafa will add...

 

Chewie

[Duncan Disorderly]

He's the current Robson. But better, obviously.

Can`t see it.

Pool players just aren`t the darlings of the press, if they`re not scum or chav they begrudgingly give a nod to good play by any of our England-born players, but the way they go on about Lampard, Rooney, Terry, Neville(excuse me while I retch), you`d think there were only 2 teams in the premiership.

Player of the season-Carragher, but you know rightly some gonch from Chelski will get it, especially if he has dubious racist leanings and a dodgy, bedhead haircut.

[Ramón Benítez Hernández]

Can`t see it.

Pool players just aren`t the darlings of the press

 

Except Owen.

[Chili Palmer]

Except Owen.

 

He was Englands player

[cymrococh]

Player of the season-Carragher, but you know rightly some gonch from Chelski will get it, especially if he has dubious racist leanings and a dodgy, bedhead haircut.

Player of the season will be Cristiano Ronaldo, because he's been amazing and is the main reason why Man Utd are at the top of the league.

[Cobs]

Player of the season will be Cristiano Ronaldo, because he's been amazing and is the main reason why Man Utd are at the top of the league.

nahhh it's cos the Southern Media hate us

[sutty]

Can`t see it.

Pool players just aren`t the darlings of the press, if they`re not scum or chav they begrudgingly give a nod to good play by any of our England-born players, but the way they go on about Lampard, Rooney, Terry, Neville(excuse me while I retch), you`d think there were only 2 teams in the premiership.

Player of the season-Carragher, but you know rightly some gonch from Chelski will get it, especially if he has dubious racist leanings and a dodgy, bedhead haircut.

 

Are you watching the english coverage of us?

 

It's exactly the same. I don't resent him about it, the commentators are right up his a*** though. It's a bit pathetic.

[Ostrich Man]

Player of the season-Carragher, but you know rightly some gonch from Chelski will get it, especially if he has dubious racist leanings and a dodgy, bedhead haircut.

defenders dont usually get it to be fair....more likely Ronaldo will get it.

 

not that i give a f*** who wins player or manager of the year.....load of shyte really.

[Flight]

Player of the season will be Cristiano Ronaldo, because he's been amazing and is the main reason why Man Utd are at the top of the league.

 

 

Said it before, European Player of the Year this year will be Stevie. Not saying he does or doesn't deserve it, but I reckon it will happen.

 

 

We're too tough on him. He's our captain and we couldn't have anyone better than him. Does piss me off the press that give him MoM when he obviously isn't though.