10 Feb 2015 13:16:08
This may read like heresy to other posters, but if we had someone like Gerrard playing in their last league derby after a one-club (to date) career of hundreds of games, having won domestic and European cups, having scored crucial match-winning and match-saving goals, and having played a hundred times for their country, then I'd expect the media to have gone to town just as much. It would just be utterly perverse for the media not to highlight this - not just for the player, but also for the benefit of their product (live televised football).
We Evertonians take pride by singing about "if you know your history" - well, in my humble opinion, we should respect the history of others. We don't have to like it, but we can show respect for the achievements of others.
10 Feb 2015 13:43:54
Sid had Ed01 got to you?
10 Feb 2015 14:10:44
wakka57: surely there can be more than one voice of reason on this forum, mate?
;-)
10 Feb 2015 14:39:26
Respect should be shown, more so as he is a local lad. We would appreciate it if it was the other way round.
{Ed025's Note - im all for respect keenone, but it has to be a 2 way street, the fact that he is a scouser (of which im one)has nothing to do with it mate, we and the reds have great supporters from far and wide, i have respect for him in the same vein as i have for lampard etc..
10 Feb 2015 19:13:19
Ed025, I think your reply was much of what I was trying to say.
10 Feb 2015 19:59:06
I disagree, I really dislike gerrard, for many reasons and his achievements will not be 'respected'. There wasnt this media love in with lampard or scholes (both of whom gerrard doesn't belong in the same league as). And I find it DISRESPECTFUL by the media towards us the fact they were desperate for him to score and liverpool to win, same with the league last season. Does he deserve a guard of honour from us? For what, someone like HIM doesn't get my respect, not as a person or as a footballer, if he had not been a massive fool over the years then maybe, just maybe but after all this, just forget it? Nah, he's got his own fans and tabloids to look after him, he's a big boy now.
{Ed025's Note - to be fair swan he has been a superb player for me, not that im likely to admit it to anybody.. :)
11 Feb 2015 12:42:43
I agree with Swan, I have no respect at all for Gerrard. Liverpool and England fans can have respect for him for his achievements but I don't. I have seen him dive and cheat on many an ocassion so why should I have respect for him? Too me he is just another over hyped English prima donna.