So just wading in here, whats the gist of these 500 plus comments?

That Gerrard is the greatest player ever and anyone who denies it is a kiddy fiddler?

Cause it better be or else

comment by 🔥💩He's French, He's Flash... I... (U9335)
posted 1 minute ago
You also denied being racist, before likening Sol Campbell to a
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whats racist about an

comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 12 seconds ago
So just wading in here, whats the gist of these 500 plus comments?

That Gerrard is the greatest player ever and anyone who denies it is a kiddy fiddler?

Cause it better be or else
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Pretty much,

There's been a few reprobates who denied his quality, and said he wasn't a great because he never won the PL. There was also a bit of Scholes bashing and some questioning of his DJ beatin antics...

Tis a good read.

General consensus:

Absolutely top quality player and Premier League great.

comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 43 seconds ago
comment by 🔥💩He's French, He's Flash... I... (U9335)
posted 1 minute ago
You also denied being racist, before likening Sol Campbell to a
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whats racist about an
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Well... in isolation, not much...

But it was part of a little drawing Jay made of Sol Campbell..

The was used for his face...

French is making that seem far worse than it actually is.

I'm not racist, some of my best mates are xmaspúds

Which is apparently banned due to the word spúd

Sol Campbell is a pudding.

I'm amazed it took Jay over 500 comments before he was able to drag my article off topic.

Usually his mere appearance spells doom for any article.

seems a little racist

For all the mocking of Gerrard by United fans I think we are only having this debate because he has been a fantastic player for them and, IMO, a PL great.

For me you don't have to win it to be a great. Cruyff is a WC great for me and didn't win it so don't think that is a valid argument.

comment by Robbing_Hoody -Escape goating pre-madonnas so that profits put me in folk law pacifically to show what an shambles Christmas is as it's not rocket sconce cos I'm a massive pendant. (U6374)
posted 51 seconds ago
Sol Campbell is a pudding.
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He's an absolute idiot.

It wasn't intended to be racist. I think it was something to do with those smiley things...

For me you don't have to win it to be a great. Cruyff is a WC great for me and didn't win it so don't think that is a valid argument.

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Exactly.

Ridiculous to suggest otherwise really. Elvis.

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comment by Robbing_Hoody -Escape goating pre-madonnas so ... (U6374)
posted 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
Gerrard will go down as a great player that played in the PL.
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But not a Premier League great? Hmmmm.
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Feck me, I went at the wrong time.

I missed this stuff.

Not a big Gerrard fan. He's carried Liverpool granted, but he'd have been a true great if the prem had he left and gone to Chelsea when he had the chance.

Just like shearer is a great players like berkamp, drogba, Cole, ole it can be argued made more of their abilities by being able to see the likely outcome of going to a bigger and better team. Had United not been the top team in the prem for so long you can bet giggs, scholes, Neville etc would have left.

Ronaldo is a great example, you can't argue about how good he was here but look what he's achieving now, same will apply to bale. So Gerrard top player but should have achieved more but lacked the bottle to leave

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comment by Robbing_Hoody -Escape goating pre-madonnas so ... (U6374)
posted 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
Gerrard will go down as a great player that played in the PL.
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But not a Premier League great? Hmmmm.
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Feck me, I went at the wrong time.

I missed this stuff.


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it got a bit twilight zone at that point!

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He's carried Liverpool granted, but he'd have been a true great if the prem had he left and gone to Chelsea when he had the chance.

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Why?

comment by does Kate Bush have a nice bush? (U2272)
posted 3 minutes ago
Not a big Gerrard fan. He's carried Liverpool granted, but he'd have been a true great if the prem had he left and gone to Chelsea when he had the chance.

Just like shearer is a great players like berkamp, drogba, Cole, ole it can be argued made more of their abilities by being able to see the likely outcome of going to a bigger and better team. Had United not been the top team in the prem for so long you can bet giggs, scholes, Neville etc would have left.

Ronaldo is a great example, you can't argue about how good he was here but look what he's achieving now, same will apply to bale. So Gerrard top player but should have achieved more but lacked the bottle to leave
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you've a point but your dismissing the pull of the hometown club to players like Shearer and Gerrard.

Gerrard has stated before that winning a league for Chelsea would mean very little to him, there is a line in his book where his dad says to him, "who are you going to show it to, no one around here will care".

Gerrard felt winnign trophies for Liverpool was the unlimate accolade for him, and he won everything bar that elusive league title, the trophies won at LFC mean so much more then had he left for chelase and won a few leagues on top of everything he'd alreay won.

you actually say he lacked the bottle??? FFS did you even consider that it took bottle to stay at LFC and try and win somethign for his hometown club, instead of going to any club he wanted (lets face it 2005 gerrard gets into any team in the world at that time) just to win a league title?

Shearer always wanted to be captain and number 9 for Newcaslte, it meant so much more to him to play in black and white then it would have for united.

You dismiss this far too much.

comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 9 seconds ago
comment by does Kate Bush have a nice bush? (U2272)
posted 3 minutes ago
Not a big Gerrard fan. He's carried Liverpool granted, but he'd have been a true great if the prem had he left and gone to Chelsea when he had the chance.

Just like shearer is a great players like berkamp, drogba, Cole, ole it can be argued made more of their abilities by being able to see the likely outcome of going to a bigger and better team. Had United not been the top team in the prem for so long you can bet giggs, scholes, Neville etc would have left.

Ronaldo is a great example, you can't argue about how good he was here but look what he's achieving now, same will apply to bale. So Gerrard top player but should have achieved more but lacked the bottle to leave
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you've a point but your dismissing the pull of the hometown club to players like Shearer and Gerrard.

Gerrard has stated before that winning a league for Chelsea would mean very little to him, there is a line in his book where his dad says to him, "who are you going to show it to, no one around here will care".

Gerrard felt winnign trophies for Liverpool was the unlimate accolade for him, and he won everything bar that elusive league title, the trophies won at LFC mean so much more then had he left for chelase and won a few leagues on top of everything he'd alreay won.

you actually say he lacked the bottle??? FFS did you even consider that it took bottle to stay at LFC and try and win somethign for his hometown club, instead of going to any club he wanted (lets face it 2005 gerrard gets into any team in the world at that time) just to win a league title?

Shearer always wanted to be captain and number 9 for Newcaslte, it meant so much more to him to play in black and white then it would have for united.

You dismiss this far too much.
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It would have been far easier for Gerrard to go to Chelsea, get more money, more trophies and more recognition than to stay at Liverpool.

you actually say he lacked the bottle??? FFS did you even consider that it took bottle to stay at LFC and try and win somethign for his hometown club, instead of going to any club he wanted (lets face it 2005 gerrard gets into any team in the world at that time) just to win a league title?

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So true.

I cannot fathom why these people think it's a negative to have a player stick with their hometown club; like it somehow diminishes their ability and achievements.

Shearer always wanted to be captain and number 9 for Newcaslte, it meant so much more to him to play in black and white then it would have for united.

You dismiss this far too much.

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Shearer had played for other clubs and won the league with 1 before joining Newcastle.Gerrard simply stayed at Liverpool partly I expect because if he joined the likes of Chelsea he'd be just one amongst many good players,at Liverpool he knew he was considered as the best player at the club

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comment by 🔥💩He's French, He's Flash... I... (U9335)
posted 5 minutes ago
you actually say he lacked the bottle??? FFS did you even consider that it took bottle to stay at LFC and try and win somethign for his hometown club, instead of going to any club he wanted (lets face it 2005 gerrard gets into any team in the world at that time) just to win a league title?

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So true.

I cannot fathom why these people think it's a negative to have a player stick with their hometown club; like it somehow diminishes their ability and achievements.
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It's only Chelsea fans who say this as they wish he'd signed for them. I take it as recognition of how good Gerrard was.