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main stander wrote:Yes happy birthday lad. Have to say, he looks much more comfortable when he has his 'scowly sulk' face on. I've just had a packet of Pringles which is graced by an image of a smiley Steve on the front. He looks extremely uneasy in a sinister and camp sort of way. He doesn't like smiling much does he?

Oh, and he's great by the way. One of the greatest now without doubt.

One question though: would he have been disciplined enough to play just as well in our greatest sides? That sounds mad I know but let me try and explain: he feels he has to do so much more in this side because it's obviously not graced by players as talented as him. Benitez therefore gives him much more of a free role and that suits him down to the ground. Would he have been content to play a more fixed, disciplined role?

That said I think him, Xabi and Momo are beginning now to become the best midfield in the Prem. Roll on next year, season ticket renewed today!!

yckatbjywtbiastkamb wrote:

main stander wrote:Yes happy birthday lad. Have to say, he looks much more comfortable when he has his 'scowly sulk' face on. I've just had a packet of Pringles which is graced by an image of a smiley Steve on the front. He looks extremely uneasy in a sinister and camp sort of way. He doesn't like smiling much does he?

Oh, and he's great by the way. One of the greatest now without doubt.

One question though: would he have been disciplined enough to play just as well in our greatest sides? That sounds mad I know but let me try and explain: he feels he has to do so much more in this side because it's obviously not graced by players as talented as him. Benitez therefore gives him much more of a free role and that suits him down to the ground. Would he have been content to play a more fixed, disciplined role?

That said I think him, Xabi and Momo are beginning now to become the best midfield in the Prem. Roll on next year, season ticket renewed today!!

i`d go further than saying he`s one of the greatest.
i tend to look back through rose tinted glasses at the 70`s and 80`s (rightly so, we were a great side(s)) and the players playing back then can do no wrong in my eyes.
in those days i stood on the kop and players like keegan, kennedy, case, hansen, barnes and especially souness and daglish were my hero`s but i`ve got to be fair to this generation of players too.
daglish could unlock any defence in the world with a pass but it must be said he had a lot of help and i`m just kidding myself if i think he had the influence as an individual gerrard does. daglish joined the european champions, at 3-0 down with 45 minutes to go gerrard turned us into european champions. daglish complemented his team whilst gerrard at times through out his career IS the team.
people will remember the olympiacos`s, istanbuls, cardiffs etc where steven delivered big time but i tend to remember the raw fullback punching the air wildly and kissing the badge after clearing a certain everton goal off the line in the last minute of his first derby or the irony of listening to those everton fans in the pub who used to say during the dogs of war days `its a mans game` and `your team are a bunch of sh.1.thou.ses` resort to `that number 17 is the dirtiest tw@t who ever put on a pair of football boots`.
he was a kid in those days too, and just because all the senior pro`s in the liverpool team at the time used to be in the echo in the week leading up to the derby bleating about the game being too rough well it didnt mean nothing to the teenager from huyton, they might want to take backward steps in derby matches but ste gerrard didnt. since the day he first put on a red shirt he has never shirked a tackle or let this club down.
i honestly never, ever, ever thought i`d ever utter these words (or write them) or even consider saying them but for me kenny daglish isnt the best player ever to wear a red shirt.
in my opinion that honour goes to steven gerrard.