Atkinson riles him even more than Pearce, who chose Scott Parker ahead of Gerrard as captain in his only match as England’s caretaker manager. Pearce decided to break the news to Gerrard in a hotel toilet just outside Watford. Ada satu adegan di mana Stevie dilimpahkan kebahagian setelah kesialan datang bertubi-tubi padanya. Tapi bagian itu terlalu indah untuk dibuat spoiler di sini. Gerrard was not the brain of the team; that was Xabi Alonso. Benítez freed Gerrard from the responsibilities of dictating the play and covering the defence and let him do what he was good at – creating and scoring goals. Alonso could lead the play; Gerrard could lead by example. For a time, it worked. Liverpool should have won the league in 2009. Gerrard's consolation was to be named Footballer of the Year.

Bu kitabi ciktiginda on siparis ile almistim. Cunku icinde cok merak ettigim birkac bolum vardi. Onlari okuduktan sonra kalani zamana yayarak ara ara okudum.Do you like to read biographies and would you like to know more about one of the best players in English football? As such seasoned readers may well be put off by the style of this book. It is not particularly welcoming, and you almost need to skim the words rather than trying to take them all in as individual sentences. Certainly if you try to read the book intricately it will become a struggle, because in all honesty it just doesn't flow that well from sentence to sentence. Then again this is something that should be expected and persevered with. If you want a literary masterpiece, don't buy the autobiography of a professional footballer. It would be hard on anyone's ego, and Gerrard has often been accused of egotism, because that's how people usually interpret his on-field persona. But if he really did have a giant ego, he would have left Liverpool for a stronger team years ago, instead of staying on and sacrificing his own chances of success to increase theirs.

I decided to read this book because I am huge football fan. I am reading a football book because I love the sport.There really are some great football biographies out there, to name a few I'd go with Paul Gascoigne's Gazza : My Story (which really is extraordinary with it's describtion of Gazza's trouble with alcohol and a struggle against a fragile psyche) or A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke (which is more of a story about a man battling [and losing to] depression in the macho-world of modern football). I also enjoyed Alex Ferguson's autobiography (and this comes from a diehard fan of Liverpool FC). Berawal dari impian, disiplin dan semangat untuk maju, Gerrard membawa pulang beberapa gelar juara bagi Liverpool. Salah satu yang paling berkesan, tentu saja, adalah "keajaiban Istabul". Di satu sisi, heroiknya tim besutan Rafa Benitez menggulung AC Milan memberikan gelar eropa pertama bagi Gerrard. Di sisi koin kegagalan ini sangat menyakitkan bagi seorang Andrea Pirlo. Seolah takdir, beberapa tahun berikut, di tahun 2007. Pirlo berhasil membalas kepedihan tersebut di final Liga Champions Athena. Keputusan terbaik Gerrard adalah mendengarkan suara hatinya. Tidak pindah ke Chelsea. Meski begitu diidolakan oleh Mourinho. Belum diberi kesempatan mengangkat piala Liga Premier, bukanlah sebuah kegagalan telak bagi penggemar setia Liverpool.

Gerrard has a way of expressing his anguish with texted emoticons. In a revealing chapter about injury he shares some of the late-night texts he swapped with Morgan. Gerrard’s are littered with sad faces. One sad face means he’s “not good”. Two sad faces confirm he’s feeling terrible. The decent grammar and perfect spelling are illuminated by all those sad little yellow faces. When Gerrard is trying to recover from the trauma of The Slip he and Morgan share a bag of Haribos while delighting in Chelsea losing to Atlético Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League. 9) He can’t stand Martin Atkinson I got really nostalgic at times, and amazed. I laughed a lot and cried a little. I'm not ashamed to admit this. This is what football can do. It can make grown men get really emotional. And a few players have the ability to enhance this even more. None more so than Steven Gerrard. With his talent and determination. His unbelievable goals. His leadership. Countless Captain Fantastic performances. And most of all with his passion and love for the game and for Liverpool Football Club. More importantly, I also found the tone to be slightly ill-judged in places. Call me old fashioned, but I don’t see the need to include profanity, especially when many kids will likely read the book. It’s been while since I read the 2007 book, but my recollection of the difference can be summed up in contrasting anecdotes. The story about the garden fork and Gerrard’s toe in the first book was genuinely dramatic. The story in this book about Gerrard getting cut in a sensitive area away at Bournemouth and the playing the derby game with four stitches was overdone. Personally this book stood out for me for a number of reasons. The first is the stark contrast between the private nature of Steven Gerrard from day to day, and how revealing he is in this book. It would have been so easy for a footballer with this career up to this point to concentrate on the professional highs and lows, and not delve too much into the personal side of things. Indeed, taking this route must have been tempting for someone who works hard to keep himself out of the media limelight. As previously stated, Steven Gerrard released this book at the age of 26, which for footballers is only really middle age. Most professional footballers don't retire until their early thirties, and indeed the likes of Ryan Giggs (who is an iconic footballer in his own right, and still playing first team football for Manchester United at the age of 35) have shown that it is possible to go on longer than that at the highest level. Personally I felt that at the time of releasing this book Steven Gerrard had at least another five or six years left at the very top level of club football. As such, it was something of a disappoint that he released this book only two thirds of the way through what is, up to now, a glittering career. You can't help but feel at the end of this book (especially if you've read it recently) that a second book is likely at some point down the line.It's a fine insight into one of the most profilic and inspirational footballers in England over the last 20 years. Cinta kedua adalah khususnya pada Liverpool dan teman-temannya yang bermain bersamanya. Tugasnya sebagai kapten tidak hanya berlaku di lapangan, tapi juga di luar. Siapakah yang akhirnya menolong Suarez dari berbagai kejadian penuh skandal? Stevie. Mereka bersahabat, dan sahabat saling membantu. Ketika Suarez akhirnya tak tahan dengan Liverpool, ia meminta Stevie membicarakannya pada manajemen agar dia dibolehkan pindah. Stevie justru menahannya setahun dan berjanji, 'Jika Barcelona datang lagi tahun depan, kau boleh pindah.' Stevie G, layak dikenang sebagai salah seorang pemain terbaik di dunia. Mungkin tidak dalam mendekati level seperti "Messi" atau "Ronaldo-CR7". Namun eksplosivitas, kemampuan terbaik mengangkat tim, dan kinerja memukau di lapangan membuat sang Skipper berada di hati banyak penggemar berat Liverpool. Saya rasa hal yang sama juga berada di benak khalayak pecinta sepakbola. I tried to bring him to Chelsea, I tried to bring him to Inter, I tried to bring him to Real Madrid--but he was always a dear enemy." Steven Gerrard is a modern football legend. He enjoyed a coveted career spanning over a decade for the English national team and Liverpool Football Club. Upon reading this autobiography I was interested in gaining an insight into the life of an international icon.

Gerrard was there as a guest pundit for Sky Sports. He seemed curiously downbeat, and who could blame him? The game was like a reverse It's a Wonderful Life – he'd seen what the world might be like if he wasn't around, and everyone was having the time of their lives. Narrated in the brutally honest tone of Liverpool's iconic captain, the book doesn't shy away from landing a few strong punches. Clearly, Gerrard couldn't care less about political correctness (especially at this stage in life).The highs in the books comes, when he describes the feelings and doubts that goes through his mind while he has his ups and downs throughout his career.