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It's the best thing
that can ever, ever happen

to a Liverpool kid.

Being that local boy
and everyone's looking to you.

I achieved things
that I didn't dream of achieving.

I had nights and experiences

that I didn't think
would ever happen to me.

I've also had some incredible,
cruel setbacks along the way as well.

And I didn't think I'd have to live with
the feelings of them moving forward.

But I just think it's part of me,
you know, it's part of the game.

Football's not about turning up
and playing.

It's about dealing with everything
that comes with it.

I just felt it was time to come out,
and not just the club but the city.

Go and have a break from it all.

Me brain was still frying
from what happened.

Just try and find answers
and try and find reasons.

And there was none.

There was none.

The big difference here,
I can escape from football.

I never played for fame.

It was in me
before I knew anything about all this.

I was brought up in an environment
where I was ready for the pressure,

and I was ready to be a footballer
for Liverpool, for my people.

I was born for it, I know for a fact.

In Liverpool,
football is the consuming passion.

It's hard to persuade people
to talk about anything else.

You walk into the ground,
you go in on your own,

and you know you've got 28,000 mates
with you there singing, you know.

Liverpool scored
five goals and could have scored more.

Their poor sacrificial victims
were Arsenal. Southerners.

And out comes
the trophy,

which is awarded
to the League champions.

Fairclough!

Since I came here to Liverpool,

I have drummed it into our players

that they are privileged
to play for you.

Four European Cups
are proudly displayed

in the Anfield trophy room,

collected by Britain's
most successful football team.

Liverpool are
European champions!

What joy!

Last Saturday, Liverpool
made sure of winning the League title,

thanks to this goal
from Kenny Dalglish,

keeping up a record
of consistent success

for an area suffering hard times
off the football field.

It's one of the highest
unemployment areas in Britain,

and I think football is like

a get-out for a lot of 'em
from disappointment.

Huyton is only a small place.

It's like a pinhead on the map.

And we lived on a council estate
called the Bluebell Estate.

We were in a place where you
had to look after yourself, you know.

Everyone was getting finished up
from work

and, you know, it wasn't a nice time.

But the people just got on with it,
you know.

And we'd go to the end of the earth
to watch Liverpool.

We breathed it.

Breathed football.

Merseyside has dominated
English football in the '80s.

Liverpool have won the First Division
Championship six times this decade.

The best supported club
in the country.

They watch a side
which is often untouchable,

driven by ability
but also enormous determination.

A magnificent goal
by Dalglish!

Their dad,
he went to all the games.

Wembley and the Cup Finals and all that.

And then nearly everyone I know
was Liverpudlian.

Everyone was close.

Everyone would watch out for each other.

Steven was a great kid. Lovely temper.

Always laughing.

Yeah, they were our world.

We didn't want them
to ever come to any harm.

So we liked them
where we could see them.

And we were lucky there.

We never had to go hunting for them,
looking for them.

They didn't wanna go anywhere
but to play football.

He played junior football.

And I've took him on a Saturday morning.

They've won 27-nil
and he scored 12 of the goals.

Like nothing to him.

They say it's a gift, and he had it.

He had the gift.
He was born with the gift.

I used to go
and have a pint in the local pub.

And my mate who run
the football team said,

"He's gonna go all the way, him,
you know that?"

I used to go, "You can't say that,
you can't guarantee nothing."

And he said, "I'll guarantee you,
Steven'll go all the way."

I think he was eight
when he first went to Liverpool.

This is
Liverpool's training ground.

Like Fort Knox, the value
of what's in here is incalculable.

The most successful club in England
for the past generation,

and there's no sign of
it letting up.

He was very small.
Very small, very slight.

He was everywhere in the game.

He'd gone past one or two players
straight away, as if they weren't there.

You think, "My God."

At Liverpool, the winning mentality
was the all-important thing.

And he was fiercely competitive.

He looked at you and listened.

Eyes that were focused all the time.

You were looking at him, thinking,
"Yeah, this kid's got a chance."

I just loved playing
football and supporting Liverpool.

It was all just fun to me.

...and they could lead
the squad forward.

That's Steven Gerrard,
Phil Thompson, Kevin Hannan...

I think they knew
from eight, nine years of age

I had a chance. I didn't have a clue.

David Smith...

Maybe I was in me own little world.

Andy Murphy, John Roberts.

I just loved it.
I just couldn't wait to play.

Liverpool going
into the semi on a run of good results

and the confidence high; people saying
it's a great season up to now.

But it's not over yet.

That day I went to put a bet on.

And I called in to see me dad
in the pub.

Next minute, I sees it on the telly.
He went, "Oh, there's trouble there."

And I looked again and I went,
"Oh my God, that looks heavy, that,

whatever that is."

There's
total confusion there.

The police have brought in
as many reinforcements...

Steven was only nine, he was only a kid,

and I was telling him, you know,
there's been people killed here.

The worst disaster
in British sporting history happened

at the start of the FA Cup Semi-Final
between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Casualty figures now stand at 94 dead.

Twenty-four of them have now been
identified, including a boy of ten.

Paul's mum knocked us up out of bed

at seven o'clock the next morning
and said that Jon-Paul,

one of Steven's cousins,
had died at Hillsborough.

It was one of the saddest days
of our lives.

At that age, you don't understand it,

you're still a baby.

I remember going to the ground

when all the flowers and scarves
were all over the Kop.

Football gets parked up.

It becomes about people
and about families

and about emotions and people grieving.

He'd ask questions like,

"What really happened to Jon-Paul, Mum,
and how did he die?"

It was just a sad thing.

Everyone knew somebody
who'd died at Hillsborough.

I've stood on that Kop
for getting on 28 years now,

and I've just made him
throw me hat and scarf in,

cos I'll never go again,
and he certainly won't go again.

In a terrible way, we've fallen
off our bicycle, haven't we?

And, for some of us, we'd like to
perhaps walk away and never ride again.

Others want to get back on soon

because they... because they love it.

John Williams is a sociologist.

He, too, was at Hillsborough

and witnessed the disaster
with Rogan Taylor.

I think
it re-affirmed for a lot of people

that football was one of those things

that really brings people
in the city together,

that helps us talk to each other
and be emotional with each other.

But the club was in complete flux.

One minute
to go.

McMahon has got the word
from the Kop, obviously.

We were playing the last
match of that season, against Arsenal,

and lost in the most dramatic
possible circumstances.

And Thomas
charging through the midfield.

Thomas! It's up
for grabs now!

Thomas!

Right at the end!

An unbelievable climax
to the League season!

Well into injury time.

The Liverpool players are down,
absolutely.

After Hillsborough, everything changed.

It was etched all over people's faces
to do with Liverpool Football Club.

It's like they'd had enough,
you know what I mean?

It was just horrible to watch. Horrible.

I've been
in the front line for 20 years,

and it's just really a result of...

20 years' active involvement in football
at a very high and successful level...

that, really, um...

kind of which the person
has pushed himself to their limit.

Hillsborough produced
that convulsive change.

Changed the stadiums.

Contributed to the remarketing
and re-promotion of the game.

Sky Television came in
and pumped money into football

and football was gonna be
completely different.

As football
has changed through the 1990s,

and money has become more important,

one club has been at the vanguard
of those changes,

both off and on the pitch.

Manchester United.

The most obvious signal
for us that things were changing

was we couldn't win the League title.

We'd lost that vice-like hold.

Steve Bruce
lifts the Premier League trophy

for Manchester United.

The third time they've won it
in four seasons.

It was the start, really,
of different times for Liverpool.

Different times.

Even in the times of transformation
with Liverpool teams,

the expectation level was always there,

the supporters there,
every time they play.

Play it again!

We needed that hope again.

Next one in!

And here was a little lad who just
kept on going, going, going.

And he lifted you every time
you went to coach.

Steven Heighway came to the house

and he started talking about Steven
to me and his dad,

saying, "He shines on the pitch.

We'd like to nurture him."

They were his words,
"We'd like to nurture him."

He said, "Don't ever push him
into anything because they can rebel.

Just be there
and he'll choose the right road to go."

And I'll never forget him saying that.

Steven and football
became my life. I wouldn't miss it.

If he was playing somewhere,
I would be there watching him.

I used to tell him, I'd say,
"You've got it,

but you've gotta wanna use it.

You don't get given something
unless you work hard at it."

That was my motto to him.
You get out of it what you put into it.

From day one,
he's always been acutely aware

of what people expect of him,

and he was hungry for that information
that was gonna help him improve.

But he's very sensitive.
He's a very sensitive lad.

And he kept a lot of his feelings
to himself.

What he had to do then
is learn the game at that level,

and you only learn the game
by playing with the best players.

So your work is about dealing
with the whole group,

but you've got your eye
on the one or two.

The ones who you know got
a better chance

of getting to the next level.

There's an intelligence
with a footballer

that you're either
on that wavelength or you're not.

We had an understanding between us.

You go onto a pitch
and it's where you belong.

When I saw somebody passing the ball
to Stevie, you come alive.

I know what he was thinking.
He knows what I'm thinking.

You're like, "I can score here.
I can make a run."

Stevie literally created
goal after goal after goal.

Steven'd pick a ball up.
First player he'd look for was him.

Cos he knows, you know what I mean?
It's like psychic.

The two of them could run like the wind.
It was just fantastic.

I used to go out

and I'd see a big lad
in the opposition team.

I'd wanna nail him first.

I'd think, if I flatten him early,

the rest of his teammates
will know what I'm about.

One day the coach called me over.

He said, "He's tackling people
and he wants to kill them.

He just smashes them to pieces."

I said, "Well, isn't that
what you're looking for?"

He said, "No, not when
he's doing it to us and the staff."

On that pitch, you've got to be tough.

But away from football,
he was quite shy.

And he was very quiet
if they got beat. Very quiet.

Steven always punished himself.

And he was always honest with himself.

The only thing I could ever say
to him was,

"Don't be too hard on yourself, Steven."

But it was his world.

When you come across
exciting young prospects,

as a coach, that is your life.

But you never know until you put them
there and you give them a go.

Cos that is the big test.

Can you handle that stress
when you step over that white line?

Can you handle it?

And that's the magic of it.

That's the wonder of it.

That's the heartbreak of it.

That's what makes football what it is.

The buzz was hard to describe.

When you actually get on the bench
and you're warming up,

there's just a sea of people.

Your heart pumping.

Butterflies.

To Davidson.
His control allows Heggem in.

And Heggem...

You see the nod.

The feeling that you get is surreal
and it's fuckin' scary.

...featured on the team
sheet before.

And he's gonna be given
his opportunity for Liverpool.

Promoted from the youth side.
Fresh faced...

I've had to pinch meself
and go, you know, "Is this real?

This is my lad this is happening to."

Final minute
of stoppage time. Gerrard...

Don't make no mistakes.
Don't make no mistakes.

To Owen.
Teenagers combine.

We only played
three, four minutes of actual action,

but I remember me dad saying to me
straight after the game, going home,

"No one can take
that away from you now.

You've played
for Liverpool's first team."

So you almost feel like
the journey's ended then.

But then, when reality kicks in,
it's only the start.

Me life changed.

From that debut,
it changed very, very quickly.

The door opens to the real game.

When you're out there
and you're on that grass level,

you've gotta be ready,
or you get found out.

You can't hide there.

Everything is happening
in such split seconds.

No situation will ever be the same.

You are making decisions,
tiny little things,

somehow understanding what's
gonna happen in five seconds' time.

This is not a dream. This is it.

And Redknapp finds
a way through.

Great effort by Fowler!

And Owen. And still.

You get blown away
by the standard of football around you.

They can move. They're skillful.
They're big. They're strong.

It's real game. It's men.

The opposition hate you.

There's hatred there.

And you can feel it in the challenges.

And he
and Westerveld have an angry clash.

And they're both gonna be
in trouble here.

You have to perform as a young player

when you first go on the team,
otherwise you won't be seen again.

You've got to make an impact.

You can't expect ten or 20 chances.
It's not gonna happen.

I was very aggressive
and Stevie was exactly the same.

Barmby did well
then for Everton.

Campbell takes a clattering challenge
from young Gerrard.

And it's a red card
for him.

And the Merseyside derby
explodes again here.

Much as it was a bad tackle,

it stood out in a good way for me in
that I thought, "This guy's not scared.

This guy is up for it and this guy is
prepared to put himself out there."

We're talking about footballers' wages
in the late 1990s,

it's a big-money business.

With me, Agent Struan Marshall.

I started representing
players when I was about 20 years old.

Football was just commercializing.

Players were turning into
genuine celebrities at that point.

There's a massive shift at the moment
from the club to the player.

David, how difficult has it been?

Well, absolutely.
There's been a power change.

The players are the people
that everybody comes to watch.

I saw that there was an opportunity,

but an agent is only
as good as the client he represents.

You need someone with a massive talent
to take you to the next level.

There was a big buzz about him
behind the scenes.

People I knew, whose opinion mattered,
had made it clear,

this guy was the real deal.

Met in the living room,
spoke to his mum and dad.

His dad took the piss out of us,
you know.

But Stevie controlled the meeting,

and he asked the questions of me
more than the other way round.

So that got me going a bit, you know.

This guy's gonna make it happen,
whoever's beside him.

I hope it's me.

Attack might be
the best form of defense for Liverpool.

Gerrard. Oh,
it's a wonderful run!

Oh, what a screaming goal
by Steven Gerrard!

His first ever goal
for Liverpool!

Talk about taking
the bull by the horns.

Nineteen years of age.

What a splendid solo goal.

It's Liverpool three,
Sheffield Wednesday one.

And what about that
from Steven Gerrard?

When he came into the team,

he was so unbelievably raw
and whole-hearted.

You could see that he was
emotionally driven.

Even though he was very young,
we thought,

"My God, he could be the whole package.
He could do anything."

Gerrard!

It flew in for Liverpool
from Steven Gerrard!

This is absolute perfection.

Here's Gerrard,
on the ball again.

Oh, he's tried from a distance.
What a goal by Steven Gerrard!

The lay-off by Murphy
into the path of Steven Gerrard!

What a wonderful goal that is!

Oh, bit of nastiness here.
Dennis Wise involved with Gerrard.

I would be
so engrossed in what he was doing

that you tend to slip away
from what other players are doing.

Changes your whole outlook on it.

But I couldn't believe it,
couldn't wrap my head round it,

some of the things that he's done.

There's something inside you
when you're coming through

that's got such belief in yourself that
you think you're almost indestructible

and you're gonna play and be the best.

We used to look up
to all these players and think, "Wow."

And then, all of a sudden,
me and Stevie were doing it.

Babel trying
to reach it. Owen!

And Liverpool are back in business
thanks to Michael Owen.

Liverpool!

Hamann. To Owen.
Gerrard's in space ahead of him.

A real chance
for Steven Gerrard!

Two-nil Liverpool.

To make so many
people happy with what you can do,

it's unbelievable.

You almost don't know what you've done
until you get home and see it on the TV.

I was starting to get stronger.

I was starting to become a man.

In first place and the winner...

Then getting
the Young Player of the Year,

it just almost seemed to be
going up and up and up.

...is Steven Gerrard.

It wasn't about
what he was getting that night,

it was about the door it was opening
to the next stage.

His plan was, "Let's take on the world."

You know,
"Let's get to the very, very top."

I can't say I'm going abroad here,
can I?

Drag Liverpool
Football Club with him to success.

It was an ambition to play
for Liverpool.

Now that it's here,
I appreciate it very much.

Hopefully I can win a lot of trophies
and stay there as long as possible.

The crowd love a local lad

who gives everything for that shirt.

He is their blood in many ways.

Steven was a shining example

of what they wanted to see,
week in, week out.

Here's somebody who's gonna run through
a brick wall for your football club.

A cross.

Headed away by Stubbs.
It's gone back to Steven Gerrard.

Brilliant goal!

But, with Liverpool supporters,

they would never rest until Liverpool
won the Premier League.

And that's it.

They're continually hungry.
Hungry for Liverpool to do well.

He bought Chelsea
for a pound in 1982.

Now Ken Bates has sold
his majority stake

for 30 million to Russian billionaire
Roman Abramovich.

Chelsea has never been able
to rival the financial muscle

of rivals like Manchester United.

Now, though,
that could all change.

There's always been
talk of owners coming in,

and they're gonna spend a few quid
and they're gonna do this and that,

and then they rarely do it.

We are at Anfield where
Chelsea have won only once in the League

in almost 70 years.

It's an instant test
of the new power behind them.

Yeah, it was different. It was for real.

It was unimaginable
that someone could come in

with huge money, buy a club and say,
"We're gonna be bigger than you are."

It was Chelsea, for God's sake.

Now, Chelsea had not won
a League title since the mid-1950s,

and suddenly they were transformed.

It's amazing how quickly history can be
forgotten in a sport like football.

I'm delighted this morning,
to formally announce José Mourinho

as the new manager and coach
of Chelsea, with immediate effect.

Look, football change. Society change.

World change. And, um...

I think football clubs...

they want success
in relation to their potential.

But more important is
to find players who think as I think.

We should not be afraid to say,
"We want to win."

When Chelsea
come in and start buying players

for 30 million in every position,

it's a game changer for someone like me
who's striving to win the League.

And that's tough to take when you've got

that burning ambition,
that desire inside.

It seems
absolutely incredible now

that their last championship win
was 12 years ago.

That's a whole generation of
fans here growing up,

not knowing what it's like to have
Liverpool as League champions.

My natural instinct
is to always defend the club,

but there was a part inside me
that knew that we weren't good enough.

So, how am I gonna win these Leagues
and Champions Leagues?

It used to kill me.

It was even more hurtful when you were
in the company of them players.

You'd have conversations
and they're saying,

"Are Liverpool gonna compete
over the next three, four years?"

You start questioning your own ambition.

But it can be a complex word,
"ambition", when you're a footballer.

Chelsea were buying up talent.

José Mourinho,
this exciting young coach,

was coming in
and was desperate to sign him.

I'm not a Liverpool fan, do you know...
I'm not a Liverpool fan.

I'm the business of Steven Gerrard's
football career.

So what's the right thing
for the business of Steven Gerrard?

For trophies, for medals,
for achievement?

A huge sigh of relief
on Merseyside

as the arrival of new coach
Rafael Benítez

appears to have convinced Gerrard
that Liverpool can, once again,

challenge for the game's
top honors.

Gerrard's decision to stay
is sure to upset Chelsea,

who were desperate to sign him
for a reported £36 million.

Michael Owen said it would be
a catastrophe if Gerrard left Anfield.

That's been avoided.

The big question now is whether Owen
will also stay at Liverpool.

I was in the room when he got the call.

And my first words were,
"I wouldn't go."

I was always a big-picture person, like,
how will people see you at the end?

I can get it. If I was in your position,

you may wanna play
with the greatest players in the world,

but it'll create a divide
that may not be able to be ever healed.

Is it worth it for that?

I'd like to say
a special thank you to Señor Presidente

for giving me the opportunity to play
for the best team in the world.

Thank you very much.
Muchas gracias.

It's the lure of going and winning,

being what you've always
wanted to be growing up.

I thought to myself,
"If I say no, I'll probably think,

'What would that have been like?'
for the rest of my life.

I've just got to try it."

It was a difficult time, emotionally.

We were dealing with these people
when they were very young.

Michael was an absolute superstar.

And at that point,
what's he gonna win with Liverpool?

It's about success,
at the end of the day.

Even though you think they're gonna play
for Liverpool forever, you say,

"Well, why should we think that?"

They don't owe Liverpool anything,
really.

I just assumed we were
going all the way to the top together.

It was always me and him.

Shit, this is gonna affect me,
it's gonna affect us.

But when that whistle blows,
you gotta park them feelings.

We've lost a player
who, Steven, on the pitch,

had his best relationship with.

Now, he was by far the best player.

If Liverpool aren't playing well,
it's down to Stevie to fix it.

Tokić.
Makes room to shoot.

Oh, what a goal that is.

Steven Gerrard,

we know how powerful and how important
he is to this Liverpool team.

But they cannot rely totally on him
cos that's how it's starting to look.

We didn't have a great team.

And Benítez felt distant.

He didn't have that kind
of emotional pull.

Was it a mistake not to field
more senior players in there tonight?

I don't think so.

- You were happy with them?
- With the players? Sure. They tried.

And so we had, in Steven,

this weird combination of utter belief
and trust and hope on the one hand,

but a desperation that we'd win
something on the other,

so that he wouldn't be seduced away.

Lee in Spain says,
"That was the most embarrassing night

as a Liverpool fan I've had
in 30 years of supporting them."

We've got no chance of wining
the League or the Champions League.

That was one of the worst
displays of a Liverpool team I've seen.

It's... It's difficult to remember
another one like it, Andrew.

That season,
the emotion was a roller coaster,

day to day, week to week,

when everything started
to center around him.

Liverpool Captain Steven Gerrard
is calling on the fans,

as the Reds seek the win they need
to ensure Champions League progress.

It's 20 years
since Liverpool last scaled the heights

of Europe's Premier Club competition.

But tonight they must win
to ensure their fans

can carry on dreaming
of glory in May.

Olympiakos
are the visitors to Anfield...

Rivaldo's having
his shirt pulled by Xabi Alonso.

Still Rivaldo.
Still Rivaldo.

And then Sami Hyypiä.

Nineteen minutes
to half-time.

Nil-nil at Anfield. A chance
for Olympiakos now, though.

There it goes.
Played in low!

And Kirkland was nowhere.
It was hit low and into the net!

Liverpool nil,
Olympiakos one.

It wasn't going well.
I think he felt the responsibility more.

I think they probably all think
the same, the other ten players.

"Let Stevie have it.
Let him take the penalty."

Or, "Pass it to Stevie, he'll shoot."

And that was timesed
by 40,000 in the ground.

"Stevie, it's down to you."

Olympiakos are going
through at the moment

unless Liverpool score
another goal.

Mellor.
Lovely cushioned header. Gerrard!

Steven Gerrard!

Scoring Liverpool's
third goal of the night, Steven Gerrard!

When I first met him,

he was just a young lad
playing football, living his dream.

Didn't think he realized
what was ahead of him.

He obviously grew up a lot
because of the responsibility he had.

But we were both still really young
at that time.

On the pitch,
he always looked aggressive.

I'm like, "Oh God."

Daddy...

But at home,
he's, you know, he's just different.

He wasn't scared of showing
his emotions.

He probably looked forward to just
coming home and just being himself.

I was Liverpool captain.

Liverpool captains always deliver.
They have to.

The history, the tradition, the success.

Am I worthy? Am I good enough?

Am I gonna be one of these captains
where they go, "He never won anything"?

The weight and how heavy
the expectation was,

it was just a constant thing in me head.

He took so much pressure
on his shoulders playing for Liverpool.

He needed an arm round his shoulder.

Just that little bit of care shown
could make all the difference.

But Rafa was a different personality.
He's colder in that respect.

I was there and I see
the frustration with Steven.

I craved success

and I wanted everything
that comes with the game.

And Rafa's coldness
just added fuel to the fire.

If I'm not loved here and respected,

and he doesn't rate me
as much as I think he should rate me,

the thought of leaving Liverpool
starts creeping in.

Mourinho liked me as a player,

and everyone knew that he was
a serial winner in the making.

That was what started
to grip me thoughts

and grip me ambition.

Which team plays better
than Chelsea? Arsenal?

- They might get...
- Better than us.

...more critical acclaim sometimes.

- They might get more critical acclaim.
- Ten points behind. Ten points behind.

The whole Chelsea
scenario was very big in the press

in the build-up to that game.

Well, it's hard to resist
the notion that Steven Gerrard's future

is interlinked with what happens
here today.

Lose, and another approach from Chelsea
might prove hard to resist.

Win, and if Chelsea's season
disintegrates,

the move to Stamford Bridge
suddenly looks less attractive.

The scrutiny on Steven Gerrard,

because of who he is, he can't hide.

And because of who he is,
he's always getting watched.

There's cameras always on him
in the game.

The last 12 minutes
of the game.

Paulo Ferreira playing it in.
Oh, it's got a deflection and gone in!

Oh, what an unlucky break.
And of all people!

Stevie Gerrard has equalized
for Chelsea.

And there is so much irony
in that goal.

Gerrard, many believe, has just scored
his first of many goals for Chelsea.

There is the final whistle,
and Chelsea enter a new era

under José Mourinho
and Roman Abramovich.

They've beaten Liverpool.

And Steven Gerrard
is beyond consolation.

Steven Gerrard
was an absolute disgrace today.

Every tackle he throws in,
the hand's out,

picking 'em up, shaking hands
with Makélélé and the rest of them.

He's an absolute disgrace.

I do think he's got
his mind on other things.

I don't think he's got his mind
on Liverpool Football Club.

Gerrard's supposed to be
the motivator, to drive the team on.

He was an absolute disgrace.

He was getting slated by the supporters

for having this nightmare of a game.

You wanna jump up and go, "Have you got
a short memory or something?

He loves Liverpool.
He's doing it for the club."

I knew that would affect him,
but what could you say to him?

That's the first time
as a player I'd felt lonely.

And that smacked me
right bang in the face.

You feel the responsibility
for all them people.

It's your fault,
you're telling yourself.

And you feel like you're on your own.

I realized at that moment

that the highs are gonna be
the best days of me life,

and the lows are gonna be the worst.

You know,
Liverpool is an incredibly enriching,

wonderful place to have a connection to,
but it can also be suffocating.

It can also be a place
that strangles you.

Because people want it so much
and want you to feel what they feel.

That must be
an incredibly emotionally troubled thing

to have to be responsible for.

He understood why it mattered
so much to people

that he'd played for this club,

but he always had, at the same time,
this real problem of,

"Am I gonna be a great player
who's not gonna win enough?"

So, that incredible run
in the Champions League,

that season was really important.

It gave us something to hold on to.

Liverpool's Champions
League Semi-Final against Chelsea

is now just over an hour away

with a place in the Final
in Istanbul next month

beckoning for the winner.

You couldn't write the fact

that we would meet Chelsea
in the Semi-Final.

You couldn't write it, could you?

So, I arrive here with my ego... big.

You know? Now it's even higher.

They have the most expensive team
in the world.

Good manager, good players.

But we have our supporters
and we have the balance now.

The crowd got the message

that we were gonna
have to help with this.

The whole stadium
was in an utter state of madness.

And it did feel we were doing something
that was impossible.

How was this gonna work out?

Riise.
To Gerrard with space.

Pumped in towards Baroš!
He's beaten Terry to it.

The goalkeeper made contact
with Luis García!

Was it over the line?

Gallas hooked it away!

Goal!

The first goal of this Semi-Final
is a Liverpool goal!

Time has come for Liverpool to play
in yet another European Cup Final.

Rafa Benítez and his team
have rolled back the years.

It's just like the old days.

There was a massive part of me

going into that Final
of wanting to win it so much,

just to lift that burden and add
to the history and take the weight.

Everyone's asking
if Liverpool

really can win
a fifth European Cup.

Whether successful or not,

will Steven Gerrard
stay at Anfield next season?

The media
wouldn't let go of the rumors.

They were constantly asking.

If they win this tomorrow, you know,
it could change everything.

But I think if they lose tomorrow night,

I still wouldn't be surprised
to see Steven Gerrard leave.

What greater stage
could Steven have?

The entire world would be watching this.

Isn't this what you and we all want?

There was a gang of us went.

One of the lads turned round,
he said, "Look at that."

And you looked over, it was like

just sheets of red
coming over the hills.

I've never seen nothing like it.

Nothing like it. The support.

The 21 years since Liverpool

last lifted this
trophy have dragged.

Tonight is the chance
to make up for lost time.

But against
a star-studded Milan team,

many of whose individuals
have been here before.

And Steven Gerrard
stands on the threshold

of legendary status
at Anfield.

The tension and
the build-up, the magnitude of it,

it was a new level.

This day,
the 50th Final

of Europe's most prestigious
club competition is under way.

We'd punched
way above our weight in what we'd done.

We'd punched well above
our weight to get there.

But don't get this far and fuck it up.

If we win this,

it's gonna be the best night
of my career.

If we lose it,
I could struggle to recover from it.

Liverpool are facing
very talented players tonight, Andy.

They certainly are.
Switch on immediately.

Free kick to Milan
and Pirlo lining this one up

down this nearside.

And it's in!
Goal in 50 seconds for Milan.

Paulo Maldini.

The Milan captain strikes first
in the first minute!

The worst
possible start for Liverpool.

What a body blow
to Liverpool!

How do they come back out
of this one?

Liverpool are gonna need
their supporters.

It was panic stations in my head.

I felt like the occasion
was too big for me.

I was struggling to cope.

I felt lost.

Here's Kaká.
And here's the trouble, it's Shevchenko.

It's Crespo!
It's two-nil Milan!

And itjust gets worse
for Liverpool before half-time.

The second goal
for the Italians.

AC Milan feel
the game is over.

Absolutely certain.
The dug-out's out. They all know.

They just cannot
believe it.

Crespo has scored
twice in five minutes!

It's AC Milan three, Liverpool nil.
And this Final is over.

OK, they got one.

That happens in a game.
But when it went three-nil,

it was almost,
someone had ripped your insides out.

You've had all these dreams
and thoughts of how the game's gonna go.

Is Stevie gonna lift the cup?

That's what he's dreaming of,
we're all dreaming of that.

And you're just there,
it's like the realization of,

this is not happening.

People all over the world watching.

And you're involved in something
that's this embarrassing.

And it could get worse.

It's only half-time.

Three-nil against
these assassins who played for Milan.

It was, it was over.

"You'll Never Walk Alone"
that people sang at halftime,

it was just a message to say,

"Look, we haven't done ourselves
proud, but we're still here.

We can still bring 40,000 people

to the middle of a ploughed field
in Turkey. We're still somebody."

But no one believed we were gonna
get back into this match.

We had 45 minutes
to try and get some pride back.

And I think the fans, at least,
deserved that.

Gattuso.

So I felt
that responsibility. It's up to me.

I wonder
how many Liverpool players

are appearing for the last time tonight.
I wonder if Steven Gerrard is.

On to Luis García.

I felt like I had to take more risk.

If these risks don't work out,
who gives a fuck?

I'll take the moans from Carragher.

I'll take the shit on the chin.

Xabi Alonso.
Hamann.

Hamann. Xabi Alonso.

Alonso turns
to his left.

Plays it through to Riise
on the left side.

Riise hits it against Kaká
and it comes back to him.

Riise puts it back into the box.
Header, a goal!

Lifeline for Liverpool.
Who else but Captain Steven Gerrard?

Steven Gerrard with a header
breathes new life into Liverpool.

And he waves to the fans
over on the far side.

"Come on, believe!"
Milan three, Liverpool one.

And maybe a route back
through Steven Gerrard.

Somehow, you know,
"guess who" scores a goal.

And he does the hand gestures
to the crowd.

It makes us realize that he thinks
this is no consolation.

It starts to make us think,
"Actually, you never know."

Hit by Šmicer.
It's in! It's in!

Vladimir Šmicer!

Two goals in two minutes
for Liverpool!

Miracles are
possible!

Another attack, Baroš
leaves it in the path of Steven Gerrard.

- Penalty! Penalty!
- Penalty is given!

I don't
believe this.

I have not seen anything like this
in a major Final, ever.

Xabi Alonso's the man
who has to keep his cool here.

Oh, it's saved!
It's going for the rebound.

This is unreal.

Liverpool, three goals down
at half-time,

have pulled level within
a quarter of an hour of the re-start.

And this scoreline
is absolutely staggering.

AC Milan three,
Liverpool three.

There has never been
a Champions League Final

anything like this.

You know, he epitomizes
the difference because...

there's a spring in his step,
there's an urgency in his play.

Skippers have to influence.
Skippers have to inspire.

And I think he's done that
second half.

Now these are
nervous times.

Fingernails being bitten
right down to the edge.

Can they find it within themselves
to try and encourage their team on?

But there's danger here.
Good save.

Wonderful double save
from Dudek!

Less than three minutes to go.

The last chance passes.

We are going to
a penalty shootout.

For the eighth time
in the 50-year history,

it will be decided by Russian roulette,
the penalty shootout.

Somebody is gonna be
a hero

and somebody is gonna be a villain
in the next five minutes.

Who misses.
Best possible start for Liverpool.

Hamann to give Liverpool
the advantage.

Oh, that'll do.
Get in.

That'll do nicely.

From the halfway line,
the goal was shrinking.

If it doesn't go right, people
won't remember the goal you scored

or your performance
in the second half and extra time.

They'll only remember it
if you and your team get over the line.

They're so close now.

I was terrified of losing it again.

Riise!

Turned around!
But has the contest turned around?

I'm thinking,
"This is gonna come down to my penalty."

You can't be under
any more pressure, ever.

If Milan miss this...

then Liverpool win
the trophy.

Andriy Shevchenko knows now
that there is no margin for error.

The weight of the world
on his shoulders.

There will be no second chances
if Shevchenko misses.

He saved it!
And Liverpool...

The European Cup
is returning to England!

And to Anfield!

Liverpool are champions
of Europe again.

The most extraordinary night
of football!

Most extraordinary finish!

This weight
of responsibility and pressure

that lifted off me, it was frightening.
Frightening.

I love you!

I fucking love you boys!
I fucking love you boys!

Fucking hell.

I don't think anyone on this planet

has ever felt what I felt
when that happened.

I see pictures of me leaning
into the fans at the end of the game.

You... you're gone.

You're gone.

It was just bedlam in there. Bedlam.

People just hugging each other,
kissing each other.

But I... I just couldn't speak.

I stood up, trying to get to him.
I never had a chance.

I just sat down.

And I was just numb.

When we won, you know,
I'm thinking about it now.

Crying, being there.

Just the joy of seeing that happen.

Seeing Steven at the heart of it saying,

"We can still do this,"
when no one believed we could.

No one believed we could.

And he's saying to all of us,
"I believe."

This felt a kind of pure thing.

This felt like a victory for spirit.

And Steven as the central character
in all of this

is why he was so important to us.

What you've gotta
understand is this is my life.

When you've got the armband on,
and you're in them boots,

and you're that person, it's real.

You wanted nights like this,
with this club.

Surely this means you stay at this club.
You'll be committed to this club.

For me, at that time,
I'm thinking all the speculation,

surely now Rafa will be
in a different place with me and...

I'll sign a long-term deal
and we're done.

I'm sure the manager and Rick Parry
will wanna sit down really soon

and a decision'll be made, but...
how can I leave after a night like this?

But from my point of view,
there was just no urgency.

I felt like it was real.

I felt like Rafa
wanted to cash in on me.

I felt like I was getting pulled
from pillar to post

and there was just so much shit
that was going through me head.

What I was giving to the club,
it was me life, I gave everything.

But maybe I deserved to play
in a better team,

for a manager that loves me.

Maybe it might be better
for me to move on.

My head was spinning and I was lost.

I was lost in that spin.

He says it's the hardest
decision he's ever had to make.

The Liverpool captain, Steven Gerrard,
has told the club

he wants to leave just weeks after
he led the team to European Cup glory.

Six weeks ago
he woke up on top of Europe

and seemingly staying put.

This morning he woke
to back pages,

apparently paving his way
out of Anfield and into Chelsea.

His agent says contract talks
have broken down.

The papers say so has Gerrard's
relationship with his manager.

- Devastated. Devastated.
- Why?

He's the backbone of the team.
If the engine goes, the car cuts out.

- That's true.
- That's about the Liverpool team.

Steve Gerrard moves,
that's when a team falls apart.

It wasn't about
winning trophies, it's all about money.

He's shown
his true colors

by the fact that he's even considered
leaving Liverpool.

The little scab can go.
The little scab can go.

Good riddance
to Judas himself.

It brought to life
how people feel about the football club,

and people made it clear how they felt.

Notes posted up on the gate at the end
of the road, phone calls, text messages.

"You're not going. Fuck off.
You're one of us.

You better not fucking go."

Direct threats made.

I'd been around him enough
in Liverpool to realize

what a bizarre hotbed of pressure
that is to be him in that city.

I wouldn't change places with him.

He's held the Champions League trophy
above his head.

I'd love to do that,
but I wouldn't change places with him.

And that's what I've thought
as I've sat with him

and watched his shirt
getting burnt on a television screen.

Players like him come around

maybe every 40 or 50 years.

You get them in a lifetime.

If he goes, all of us can go.

All of us can find a more successful
club to support. Why not?

The game just dissolves then.

I was a young lad who was a bit lost.

There was so much going on,
it was difficult to think straight

and try and make a huge decision

that you're not sure whether
it's gonna be right or wrong.

So, it takes someone close
to maybe remind you what you've got.

He didn't know where he was.

I could see it in him.
I remember watching him.

He just said, "You know, Dad,
I've had these offers."

And I did say to him, "At the end
of the day, it's gonna be your decision.

But them people won't love you
the way these people love you here.

You can't change what you are,
the way you've been brought up.

You're a Scouser."
That's what I said to him.

He was saying to me,
"These fans adore you.

You're everything to them.

You're their hope, you're their dreams,
every single day.

Liverpool is in your heart,
forget what's in your head.

If Chelsea are in your head,

that's just a noise,
that's just a noise.

Remember where you're from.
Remember who made you.

Liverpool's your team."

9:38, and Johnny Sanderson
with the sport.

Steven Gerrard
is going to stay at Liverpool.

Gerrard's set to
put pen to paper

on a new four-year contract
on Friday.

And it was clear the last few days
had taken their toll.

I think they've been
the most difficult days of me life.

I'm not proud of them.
I've been really confused.

It's been difficult.

I wouldn't wish it on any other player
or any other person...

The best thing that happened to me
was that conversation.

If I didn't have me dad and me brother,
I could have made a mistake.

Now, I think there's a lot of people
in the game

that believe I made the wrong decision.

But they don't know my feelings.

Nine times out of ten, maybe
the right thing might have been to go,

but I'm not one of the nine.

I'm the one.

Steven showed that he was human

and he was devoted
to his club and his city.

He put the shirt on
the next game and said,

"Whatever I have to do
to carry this team as far as I can,

then I'm going to do it."

He was Liverpool. He was Liverpool.

That year,
the West Ham FA Cup Final.

One man was gonna score that goal.

Gerrard's driving shot!

What a fantastic goal!

A goal from the left side
from Steven Gerrard!

Well, just when you think
that he can't produce anything...

The FA Cup
was one of the best days of me life

because I know what I did
for my own people.

FA Cup Final winners, Liverpool!

I'd committed the best years to the club

and it was nice to get
the relationship back strong.

Me head felt free. I felt awesome.

You know, it was, "Bring it on, anyone."

He really belonged to us now.

But for most supporters,
it's not the end of the story,

it's just the beginning
of what it is we really need to do.

Because the thing we really need to do
is to win the Premier League

and he has to take us there.

Well, we really
would like to win the League

because I think that's
the ultimate in English football,

to win the First Division Championship.

I was one trophy away.

But the Premier League was getting
better and faster and stronger.

Drogba on the turn.
Oh, what a goal!

If you wanted to play
for the top six, eight teams,

you've gotta be world class.

And Manchester United
get their noses in front.

Henry!

Every single club
was spending absolute fortunes,

just craving that glory.

Manchester City Football Club
has been bought by billionaire Arabs

who say they'll make the club
the biggest in England.

We don't know
exactly how much money

is behind the Abu Dhabi royal family.
We know it's billions of pounds,

which would dwarf the wealth
of the owners

of Liverpool, Manchester United,
even of Chelsea.

So, that's what we had to do.

Try and make Liverpool capable
of competing with them sides.

First tonight, the American
multi-millionaire George Gillett Jr

is poised to take over
Liverpool Football Club.

If Gillett's bid were to come good,
he'd be the third American

to jump into the Premiership of late.

We've already had Malcolm Glazer
at Manchester United

and Randy Lerner at Aston Villa,
all promising swift returns to glory,

and glory is what people on the Kop
want more than anything.

I wanna assure the fans
of Liverpool that we know what you want.

You wanna win, and I wanna win.

When them owners came in,

they did what we wanted them to do,

which was to buy players
in a different market.

We signed Fernando Torres
for 25 million.

Mascherano comes along, 20 million.

This team is getting better and growing.

2008, we have the best team
I've probably played in.

Vidić lets it bounce.
And Torres is all over him.

And Torres is in for Liverpool.
Fernando Torres! Wonderful!

And Steven Gerrard just about
squeezes it past Edwin van der Sar.

It's a kiss for the badge.
It's a kiss for the camera.

There's a force, there's a power

that comes from the crowd,
and you feel it.

Fucking, yeah!

Fucking, yeah!

Steve.

I needed to deliver that trophy soon,

to give them what they wanted.

Alonso tees up
Gerrard to hit it.

Steven Gerrard scores
his second!

Liverpool score four,
and the title race is on.

We did really come very, very close

to winning the title that season.

Manchester United!

And it felt
it was only a matter of time.

But, as it turns out, we were all duped.

The Hicks and
Gillett era began in 2007,

when they bought the club
for £219 million.

In May, a pre-tax loss
of almost £55 million was announced

and Liverpool's overall debt
now lies at around £280 million.

The owners
turned out to be the antithesis

of what this club is about.

It was an utter betrayal.

Now I think Liverpool fans
have to be realistic at this time.

With the current state...

Football is not
about economics, it's about emotion.

I think things have gone
too far.

When football's
about football again,

then I'll be a happier man.

The Hicks and Gillett thing,

that was a change
in the dynamics of the club

that was gonna change
people's lives forever.

It's a massive,
massive business enterprise now.

OK, we all have to change
and be open-minded,

but for me the heart of the club
was being ripped out.

We used to be unique.

Liverpool used to be
about the Liverpool way.

Well, it's not the Liverpool way.

I knew the Liverpool way.

So these are the scenes
this morning around the ground

as fans make their way
to Anfield.

But to be honest, today's game feels
like it is overshadowed by the memories

of what happened 20 years ago
at Hillsborough.

And there'll be a minute's silence
just before kick-off

to mark the anniversary
of the tragedy.

Liverpool's not just
a football club, it's an institution.

But sometimes, reality hits you
of how important it is.

This is our club, this is our life.

It's a week
to stop and reflect.

Wednesday is the 20th anniversary
of the Hillsborough tragedy.

Anfield will be home this week
for families, friends

and the wider Liverpool family to come
and remember, to come and grieve,

and of course
to celebrate lives.

When you're
a local lad, it is completely different.

I love the fact that I played for a club
where it mattered.

I'd hate to play for a team
where it didn't.

But at times, did it get on top of us
when things aren't going well,

how much you feel it being
a local player.

You feel like
you're letting people down.

And with Stevie being the captain,
that doubled for him.

When the fans stick together

and they want something,
they're very, very powerful.

And I think that shows what people
from the city are about.

Forget footballers.

They're always gonna fight till the end

to get what they want
and that's what they did.

And to be part of that makes you feel
proud of coming from this city.

I wanted to help the people that I love,

my family, my supporters,

to try and make people happy.

But I knew I was running out of time.

So, Torres, when he left for Chelsea,

was a big, big disappointment
and it was a low.

Top players left for big money.

You'd always put on a brave face,

but you've gotta keep those players
to win a Premier League.

And we had a major drop-off.

Thirty years of age,

there's so many miles on the clock
at this point.

And I'd go through anything
to get out on that pitch,

stress fractures in me back,

steroid injections
in every part of me body,

to keep pushing above the limit,
above the limit.

The club was stagnating
and unable to move forward.

And he'd spent a lot of energy
trying to keep the place together.

He wanted to have that responsibility,
but when it went on month after month,

year after year,

it took its toll physically
and mentally on him

and did a bit of damage.

When he walked down
a corridor after games,

you saw the weight of the world
on his shoulders.

Every man out there
who's got a son who plays football,

they'd be the same.

You want them to win every game
because you know what it means to them.

But unfortunately,
you don't win every game, do you?

Nobody.
You get beat somewhere along the line.

This picture features
in a number of the sports sections.

It's a picture of Steven Gerrard
on crutches. The Liverpool talisman...

Me body give up.

The groin just packed in and snapped
and come off the bone.

There was an infection,
which made me pelvis split.

At that point
I thought I might have been done.

This infection
just kept coming in different places.

At the time, you just think,
"It's not right."

We were in the hospital and the surgeon
says, "We need to do an operation."

All he kept saying was, "How long
until I can play again? How long?"

And I just remember him being
on the floor.

I was thinking
to myself, this could be the end.

It was breaking me.

I wasn't sleeping at night.
I was no good to no one.

I needed help.

I wasn't in a good place
on the way up to that meeting.

Me foot's in a boot, it's minus two,

I'm crutching it up a snowy path
to see a psychiatrist.

And I'm thinking,
"How has football brought me here?"

And the first two minutes
of our conversation,

I'm thinking, "I'm out of here."

Cos the first thing he said to me was,
"Well, what if you are done?

What if it is over?
What are you gonna do?

How are you gonna handle it?"

The crazy thing about it, I didn't
wanna hear it, but it actually helped.

He was just taking me to a place
where probably no one around me

would take me to
or that I'd never been to.

And I almost felt like I was done

and actually thought,
"Well, if I am, I am. What can I do?"

It was a nice break
from driving meself insane.

And I remember thinking to meself,
"Wow.

You put yourself
under incredible pressure."

It definitely made me appreciate

what I've got away from football
because it makes you think, "Well, OK.

Football's important and it is
your life, but it's not everything.

Family is everything, people
that care about you are everything.

But it's a drug.

Football's a drug.
You want more of it.

And that pressure,
you crave for it back.

The chance of getting the one
that eluded me. It gripped me again.

The Blues are silenced.

The Reds are raucous.

He looked into the abyss,

saw how close he was to the end,
which he wasn't ready for.

Of course he wanted to believe
they were gonna compete,

but I think that was more hoping
than genuinely believing, you know.

He had Suárez now to help him
do what he wanted to do,

and he could be a leader
to his young team.

Can Liverpool topple Arsenal

and further strengthen their hopes
of a top-four finish?

And Liverpool load the box!

Oh, and Liverpool lead.

Celebrations for Martin Škrtel!

That season, Arsenal came to Liverpool,
top of the table, and we wiped them out.

Three-nil to Liverpool.

It's Raheem Sterling. This is
simply wonderful from Liverpool!

The League is a process, it's a journey.

And that season, the bits and pieces
kind of came together.

If we could wring out from Steven
the last dregs

of what he's been giving us
all of these years,

and if Suárez can stay fit,
this might yet be possible.

We might have a miracle here.

I don't think
anyone believed it around Christmas,

January, February time.
The journey sort of gathered momentum.

You start thinking,
"Can we get in this?"

Gerrard.

Oh, what a pass that is.

Sturridge is in here for Liverpool.
And it's in off the post.

Steven Gerrard has been perfect
with these all season.

And it doesn't change here.

Manchester United nil,
Liverpool one!

Scenes of ecstasy
in the away end.

And Steven Gerrard mobbed
by all his teammates.

Sturridge brings it to the edge
of the penalty area.

Mis-kicks his shot.
Suárez.

That's three.
And that's it!

And Suárez seals
a historic win.

Steven always had a relationship with
people on the same wavelength as him.

Fantastic goal scorers.

And he had that relationship
with Suárez.

That's from distance.
Oh, my word!

This was our team
again now. The football was exciting.

Luis Suárez creates history!

People were going to the match now

expecting Liverpool to win.

Steven Gerrard
is there as well.

And it is... Gerrard!

You get the best feelings in the world.

You feel incredible.

But, like, become obsessed.

Watching TV around it, reading about it,
talking about it.

Letting all the emotions build up
and build up.

It dominated me life.

The winners here today.
Can they win the title?

I think so. I think if City win,

hundred percent certain
I'd say they'd win the title.

Liverpool, I think are almost there.

It was my first season as a pundit.

A lot of the time you're thinking
in your head, "Why did I retire?"

I've been waiting me whole life
to try and lift that trophy.

But it was exciting.

And for Stevie to have that moment,
that coming together,

it just felt it was meant to be.

Please now
join us in observing...

And to have
the Hillsborough 25th anniversary

that day, it was just spine-tingling.

But City were the title rivals.

We still had to win the game.

This now is Liverpool
in with Raheem Sterling.

Great... Oh, what a goal!
That's astonishing!

The composure!

Steven Gerrard
with the corner.

Left hand side
towards Škrtel!

He scores against Manchester City
yet again!

Martin Škrtel has brought
the Anfield house down!

This is Milner.
It's a lovely ball by Fernandinho.

It's a classy
Manchester City goal.

It's a wonderful goal
from a really good side.

It's David Silva who scores
and it is...

...beats his man. Gives to Milner.
Milner into the box for Silva.

They're finding gaps
inside Liverpool here.

It's Silva! It's deflected.
And it's in!

Oh, it's in.
It's in!

Mignolet is beaten.

And Manchester City's comeback
is complete.

And it's the Manchester City fans
in ecstasy.

Well, they got
a little bit unfortunate, Liverpool.

Critical moment
of the game.

Critical moment of the season.

Oh, Kompany's mis-kicked.
Coutinho!

Would you believe it?

The little magician
has come up with something.

It's ten out of ten
for Liverpool.

It has been a Sunday
to remember at Anfield.

Liverpool lengthen their lead
in the title race.

What celebrations here!

They have just cleared
a massive hurdle.

Yes!

We were very, very close now.

I would get very emotional,
to be honest, I'd get very tearful.

You know, here's a man at the top
of his career, but I didn't see the man.

I see the boy.

I see Steven Gerrard,
nine, ten years of age.

He felt everything to do
with Liverpool Football Club.

I don't know, it just had to come out.

It must have had to come out,
and it did.

Because I'd never got that close.

But then 48 hours
before this huge game

against Chelsea, I was panicking,
thinking I wouldn't be available.

I couldn't get in and out of me car,

I was so stiff
and sore and painful in me back.

You know, I'd basically been
like a pin cushion that season

to get out and play
in the amount of games that I did.

Patch me up, do whatever's needed.
How can you get me pain free?

What do I need to do to get pain free?
Cos I need to play in this game.

I have to play in this game,
no matter what.

Realistically, what I had at the time,
I shouldn't have played.

I shouldn't have played.

But the way I am,
it's everything to get out there.

So, I had a epidural in me back

and took tons and tons of painkillers.

That's what happened in the build-up
to that game.

Manchester City
had all God's gold to build that team.

And when we beat them,
I think everybody in the ground felt,

"My God, this is gonna happen."

But you daren't even
really think about it.

It was so close, so tangibly there,
and we're gasping for air in the city.

♪ We're gonna win
the League...

The time is now
for Liverpool.

Destiny awaits the men in red
if they can see the job home.

But today, Chelsea
and José Mourinho roll into town.

What a reception.
What an atmosphere.

It already feels like
one of the big occasions

in this football club's unique
and illustrious history.

Anfield is electric.

Anfield expects.

Can Liverpool produce for them
like they have

on so many occasions
this season?

It's Chelsea who get us under way
playing towards the Kop.

That's on for Sterling.
It's a lovely ball.

Johnson joining.

It's deep round the back.
It's Coutinho.

- He went first time.
- Salah!

It's just run
too far ahead of him.

And then José Mourinho
picked it up.

And Steven Gerrard and Flanagan
both went running into him

and almost grappled it
out of the palms of José Mourinho.

What an idiot.

We're in that
three minutes of added-on time

at the end of
the first half.

Coutinho
in the center circle,

halfway line for Liverpool.
On to Sakho...

Oh, Gerrard slips.
Demba Ba on to it!

Ba against Mignolet here
for Chelsea.

Demba scores!
Chelsea have the lead!

Liverpool nil,
Chelsea one.

Steven Gerrard,
the captain, slips.

And Demba Ba has popped up
with another crucial Chelsea goal.

Chelsea lead
at Anfield.

A goal in the first half,
what they wanna see.

Steven Gerrard of all people.

It's Chelsea.

Demba Ba
slipped it under the goalkeeper.

And it was Gerrard.
Liverpool nil, Chelsea one.

I can still visualize
that moment and the end to that season.

Fernando Torres looking
to score against his former club.

It is a horrible day
for Liverpool.

It is José Mourinho...

And losing the title to Manchester City.

It does hurt. It hurts now.

You know, but that's what football is.

That's why you know it's important.

But to think and remember that,
of all people,

he'll blame himself
for that moment, that slip.

That's too cruel.

When the goal went in,
I seen him look up and I just thought,

"Oh, my God, it's the end."

I just thought, "He's gonna be broken."

And he was.

He just didn't speak.

And there was nothing I could say
to make it any better because...

you can't.

Everybody wants to dream.

But football is a cruel game.

And now,
going to see Liverpool play

was never, ever gonna be the same again,

because that number eight
wasn't gonna be there.

Have you read much of the reaction?

I can't at the moment.

I keep switching the TV over, and...

I'm replying to messages
and stuff, but it's tough.

To be named in the same company
as some of the legends

and some of the people that I
look up to, I mean, I'm going, yeah,

um, it's... it's brilliant.

Especially for, you know, me dad
and me brother and stuff.

You're allowed
to be emotional about it, though.

This club has been such
a massive part of your life.

But you've been such a massive part

of all of our lives
and all the supporters' lives.

Yeah, I mean, it's been
a fantastic relationship, so strong.

And... I'm one of the luckiest people
in the world to have that.

Welcome
your captain onto the pitch

for his final game
at Anfield.

Ladies and gentlemen,
the one and only Steven Gerrard!

I tried to bring him to Chelsea.

I tried to bring him to Inter.
I tried to bring him to Real Madrid.

And he was always a dear enemy.

So I want to honor him.

Because in the end,
I think it's an amazing career

and an amazing feeling with his people

that he refused
to play for other big clubs,

to play only for Liverpool.

And I think this is a feeling
that stays... that stays forever.

♪ Steve Gerrard

♪ He'll pass the ball 40 yards

♪ He's big and
he's fuckin' hard...

That was
the hardest thing I've ever had to do,

is come away from the club.

Still now it hurts to step away from it.

I think it was only fair on me family

that I come out
of that pressure situation.

Over here's given me
a chance to breathe,

to finish me career
with a smile on me face.

I played wanting people
to be proud of what I give.

And I think I achieved that.

When he left Liverpool,

he just said, "Dad,
I've give it all I could."

I said,
"You didn't have to tell me that.

I've watched it with me own eyes."

I feel incredibly honored

to have been able to see him play.

But there are lots of ways
in which people could say

Steven Gerrard's career

has not measured up to what a player
of his talent ought to have had.

I think he'd have to accept that.

But the thing that he has,
which very few players have,

is the deep love and respect of people
from the city in which he was born.

And he's an emotional person,

like many people in the city
feel themselves to be.

And so he's part of that order
which says,

"How I feel is more important
than what I win,

or what I can earn somewhere else."

And that's a big message.

♪ You'll never walk alone

I've had
an incredible journey, I've had my time.

But I still think I've got
unfinished business

and I wanna give back.

I often say to meself,

"Why do you wanna go back
into a pressure situation?

Why do you want to go through
all them emotions?"

But I don't feel that
my journey's complete.

We'll see.

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