Steven Gerrard Showing His True Colours Over Cole?
Well, well, while the world and his wife – and most of the England squad – have come out and condemned the moronic booing of Ashley Cole against Kazakhstan, there’s one perfect little individual who’s decided to defend the ‘supporters’.
Yes, that little darling of the press, he of the much kissed arse – Stevie Me – insists those England ‘fans’ were entitled to boo Cole for making one mistake. Whether he’d agree if the crowd had responded to his sorry excuse for a game in the same way is another matter, but anyhow, Mr Liverpool says “Of course. Any supporter, when you pay money, you deserve to voice your opinion. It’s not going to help Ashley and it’s not going to help the team but the support we got was fantastic. They stayed with us throughout the game.”
So that’s ok then eh Mr Gerrard? As long as they don’t get on your case it really doesn’t matter that playing at Wembley these days is like giving the opposition a twelfth man. Because they didn’t support the whole team throughout the game did they? Or were my ears deceiving me at half-time? The fact is they just didn’t pick up on the rubbish you served up so you’ve decided to do a bit of reciprocal arse-kissing in the hope that your turn never comes. Isn’t that a little closer to the truth?
I mean, I just don’t buy all this ‘if you pay your money’ rubbish. I read some ridiculous comments yesterday about these people having ‘the right’ to give both the players and the manager stick when they make mistakes. Some wannabe spokesman stating “There are fans in the stands who would cut off a finger to play for England and when they see somebody playing badly it matters to them.” So Ashley Cole, who is generally one of the more consistent players, makes one admittedly really poor backpass and that equates to playing badly for England, and yet Stevie Me not only has a shocker of a game but seems to do that a lot more often than Cole, and that doesn’t warrant the same sort of barracking? Slightly flawed argument there if you ask me.
But this ‘supporter’ goes on “The fans who are going to Belarus this week will probably lose three days’ work and spend around £400. Those of us who will go to Kazakhstan next year will probably have to spend our summer holiday there. So why shouldn’t the people who spend so much time and money on supporting England be able to criticise if they want to?” Well, probably because the majority of the ‘tourists’ who booed are very unlikely to be the hardcore England fans who travel would be my answer to that. After all, this ‘spokesperson’ (who seemingly is one of the travelling supporters) had already admitted he wasn’t amongst those who’d voiced their displeasure at Cole’s mistake. Again, not much of an argument there.
So, my suggestion to Stevie Me and these Wembley tourists remains the same: if you can’t pick a positive hymn sheet to sing from, England doesn’t need you.
Filed under: International, Rants
Are you a women?
Leave it to a Chavski to take offense at his comments.
Did he say that they should have booed Ashley?
No.
Did he say that it was right for them to boo Ashley?
No. In fact, he stated that it didn’t help Ashley, and it didn’t help the team.
Is it understandable that he doesn’t want to spurn 90,000 fans for what was overall a decent showing as far as support goes for England?
Yes.
You are obviously still obsessed with Steven Gerrard despite him rejecting you TWICE.
Gerrard has ALWAYS believed that fans have the right to express their opinion whether by cheering or booing and what he has said about Cole would apply to anyone in the squad including himself.
Try doing a bit more research on Gerrard before you spout drivel.
Talk about picking at straws. Maybe they dont boo Gerrard because he is ten times more effective than Cole. He may have had a shocker, but its by different standards.
Personally Im not one for booing, but this article is a joke, just to have a go at a Liverpool player, for saying that fans have a right to see good football. If Terry said the same thing this article wouldnt exist.
Cole is an overpaid gimp who only cares about the money. Stevie G is more of a professional footballer than cole ever will be. If anyone should be booed though it’s Lampard, has ever one player performed so inconsistently for england than Lamps?? nuff said.
A player of Ashley Cole’s moral fibre deserves whatever he gets whenever he get’s it. He deserves to be bood just for being him wether he made a poor back pass or not.
For anyone to talk about the “conduct” of another player whilst making reference to Cole is quite hilarious.
your an idiot, cole didnt deserve to get booed, but what gerrard is saying is right, and he wasnt annonymous he was cleaning up fat franks mistakes, whilst he got the praise for 2 assists from set pieces.
Well your dear little Ashley threw his toys out of the cot and run down other teams when he arrived at Chelsea and put himself on the moral high ground, that sets him up as a target, if he cannot take it he should have not placed himself in that position, at least Mr Gerrard admited he has not played well for England, I have been home and away watching England and this makes a change from the booing of Peter Crouch and also the anti Man Utd songs we used to have in the past.
So as I thought anyone who speaks out against any London team is a tourist. Well count me in as one because I have to take time of work to travel down to watch my England play at Wembley let alone when we play away!!
forever red, to answer your question “has ever one player performed so inconsistently for England than Lamps”, yes they have - Gerrard. Except everyone’s to busy fawning over him to pick up on it.
As someone else has said, Gerrard’s made it known that crowd deserve to have their say. Liverpool’s squad have been treated with disdain on the odd occasion and he’s taken it on the chin. Why? Because he’s a man.
If the crowd feel like Cole isn’t pulling his weight, or that his behaviour brings shame to England team they have a right to make themselves heard.
After all, if it wasn’t for the fans none of the lads would be being paid £120,000 a week.
Respect your employers is the message, I think.
ManUtd - Gerrard wasnt anonymous?? No youre right, he wasn’t anonymous, his missed passes were glaringly obvious for everyone to see. Just cleaning up Lampard’s mistakes? Behave.
Macumred - I still don’t see what Cole’s behaviour at club level has to do with his England performances. Either youre there to support England or youre not.
Tony - how was Cole not pulling his weight? It was one mistake, ok it was more costly than most but his overall game/behaviour wasnt a question on Saturday. My point is its ok for Gerrard to take the moral highground when his woeful performance - where HE wasnt pulling his weight - was yet again overlooked.
Gerrard’s pass completion percentage was around 85%.
It is plainly obviuos that you don’t like Gerrard, but your attempts to pile it on him using his interview speaks volumes of your intelligence and reading/listening comprehension skills. Anyone that actually saw the interview and its progression would not have made such a ridiculous blog posting.
get over it boys, he`s not going to sign for you and thats that!
you`re like stalkers after a bird who keeps rejecting you!
I dont remember any outcry when crouch got booed because he played for us and happened to be dead tall
all you mates who get freebies at stamford bridge are all wringing the hands in despair. gerrards been booed and took it on the chin and actually said cole would be strong enough to do the same
to para-phrase that holiday song…you all want him, you cant have him…….
England are and have been very average across the board for a number of years, and for fans to single out any individual from a performance that was below par on so many levels was a bit out of line.
However to just come on here and pick up on what one player said ‘cos you don’t like him or his club is wasting our time and yours. Gerrard speaks his mind, which although most people don’t care too much about, is something that to few people do in sport now. They are happy to plod along providing the expected sound bites repeating the usual cliches and catchphrases.
Come back when you have something to say that isn’t just a blatant swipe at an opposition player.
ohhhh Chelsea D. You poor disillusioned blind narrow minded fool.
You hear only what you want to hear. Can’t you see that everyone here is talking at least some sense.
It’s like most Chelsea fans who have the Gerrard/Lampard chip on your shoulder. Stevie is a far better player mate. Deal with it.
If Gerrard had signed for Chelsea a few seasons back,Gerrard knows he would have been booed whilst playing for England.
Chelsea D ooooh how bitter you sound about Gerrard.Still sulking because you will never get Gerrard in a Chav shirt!
Cole represents what everbody hates about Chelsea, arrogance and greed.
Cole was booed by fans who felt he wasn’t doing a good enough job.
I wasn’t in the crowd, I wasn’t booing but I tell you what, if I had paid for a ticket and felt like it I bloody well would.
That’s what Gerrard is saying, the fans are the boss; they can boo or cheer as they decide. Why should a load of overpaid primadonas flounce around, playing 8 out of 10 games piss-poorly and expect to be revered as superstars?!
It’s about time we, the fans, made our voices heard and brought these overpaid lads back down to earth.
forever red - get over yourself, I wouldn’t want to see Gerrard in a Chelsea shirt so stop flattering him.
Sizmo - this isnt picking on one player simply because I dont like him or his club (although obviously I loathe both). But since Gerrard is the only player who didn’t follow Rio Ferdinand’s lead in letting the supporters know they were out of order, there really wasn’t anyone else to write an article about. The only connection this in any way relates to him as a Liverpool player is his apparent inability to adopt the ‘team’ mentality for his country.
Tony - do you honestly believe booing will ‘bring them down to earth’? The only purpose it serves is to put them under even more pressure before a ball is so much as kicked, not much of a motivator really and it certainly doesnt produce an improved performance. A novel idea to try could be to get behind them. I know, crazy isnt it?!
What the fuck would Chelsea fans know about getting behind their team? You’re all too busy trying to predict who to buy a season ticket for next season!
Cole screwed up, led to us conceding a goal, the crowd didn’t like it and booed. Thats life, get over it.
Gerrards one of the few players who has enough honesty and integrity to speak the truth in spite of criticism, you should respect him for it.
Chelsea:
Go watch the videos on sky sports, and stop reading and writing blogs from headlines you read in the papers that are obviously meant to stir this kind of rubbish up.
Gerrard responds no differently than anyone else does when asked about the incident…
Tom - the content of the blog is largely around my personal opinions, Im neither asking you to agree with those nor continue to visit the site.
And Tony - Again, Im not sure what Chelsea’s season tickets have got to do with Gerrard’s lack of team mentality, but you seem determined to stray from the point.
Honesty and integrity though?? ha ha, I love a comedian.
Hahahahaha.
I’m going to go ahead and take that as an admission that you knew when you wrote the rubbish above that it was a complete hatchet job.
It’s pretty bad when reporters who have nothing better to do during an international break make up rubbish headlines just to stir the pot, but it is just plain disgraceful to knowingly perpeuate said rubbish just to have a go at someone you don’t like.
You’re pathetic and are a disgrace to real Chelsea fans.
Tom, my point was just a little over your head yeh? So Sir Stevie of Me’s point of view is challenged and its a hatchet job? A little precious if you ask me. Its already been pointed out Gerrard appeared to be the only player in the squad who didnt openly condemn the supporters. I think they were out of order and therefore wouldnt agree with Gerrard. It aint rocket science!
I suppose the underlining factor in this is that Gerrard doesn’t know what it feels like to be booed. He handed in two transfer requests to his supposedly beloved club, yet the moronic fans still idolise him.
I wonder how he would have felt if the people who actually love Liverpool FC booed him for exposing himself as a rent boy wannabe.
Showing such disloyalty repeatedly would be worthy of booing, a sloppy back pass doesn’t.
Cole’s team mates stuck by him, but Gerrard has bottled it, wanting to keep the fans sweet… so they don’t turn on him for being one half of the most useless central midfield pairing England have probably ever had.
Stevie Gee = orgy in merseyside = shit for england
what sort of rent boy is cole then?
The jealousy and bitterness from all you Chelski vermin is palpable, it really is. Chelsea’s season ticket holders used to be Man Utd season ticket holders.
It’s not easy to take you seriously Chelsea D, when you visibly try and put a tabloid spin on such an open and innocuous comment just because it’s Gerrard who, strangely enough is the one player (oh no, that’s right Torres did too!) who told you to shove your illegal billions up your arse.
Nowhere did Gerrard state that Cole was the only one who deserved to be booed, he simply said that if the crowd aren’t pleased, they have a right to let the team know. The only reason he was the only one who said it is because he’s the only one with the bottle.
Stop playing at being a journalist, mate. You’re shit at it.
Chelsea:
My point is that Gerrard reacted no differently than any other England player did when asked about the treatment that Ashley received. If you look at the video, and if you look at what some of the other players said, you would find that to absolutely be the case.
Rio: It leaves a sour taste in your mouth, but I’d like to think that the majority of the fans were the ones applauding him to get him back on track
Lamps: It is a negative; I think at the moment that Ashley Cole is the best left back in the world.
Heskey: Players do make mistakes; if I make a mistake all the way up the field, it is not so bad, but for Ashley, if he makes a mistake down there, it could cost a goal, and it did.
Dafoe: I’m very surprised. I think Ashley, for me, is one of the best fullbacks in the world, so consistent, and again, I think he has been for a number of years now, so it is a bit harsh.
Now here is Gerrard’s bit that you’re so torn up about.
Gerrard: I think that it can do if it continues; you know, defenders in that situation may be a little edgy if the boos continue, so it is not going to help Ashley, and the booing is not going to help the team.
I wish they’d go back and ask everyone they talked to immediately after the game if they thought that the fans have a right to boo. I think that you’d find every player asked would give the same answer as Gerrard did, and that is that they do since they bought the tickets, but that it doesn’t help the players, and it doesn’t help the team.
Now please, get over yourself. If you want to hate him, fine, but find an actual valid reason, as your current one is trash, much like you.
I have nothing to say except that I think you should have a look at this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYHggzKlAi4
The crowd have a right to express themselves. This is all just cherry-picked quotes and bullshit. You should get a job in the back pages - of Loot.
Ha ha ha. Watch the little paroxysm of cultic fervour that Stevie Me inspires. I bet you knobs get all girly and cheer Beckham lustily when he warms up too. Gerrard is obviously and desperately leveraging the popularity card here, get the ‘fans’ behind him, his position needs solidifying. What a pitiful little political creature Gerrard is. Too bad most scousers are too pigshit thick to see it.
Ha ha ha. Watch the little paroxysm of cultic fervour that Stevie Me inspires. I bet you knobs get all girly and cheer Beckham lustily when he warms up too. Gerrard is obviously and desperately leveraging the popularity card here, get the ‘fans’ behind him, his position needs solidifying. What a pitiful little political creature Gerrard is. Too bad most scousers are too pigshit thick to see it.
Don’t look up a word in the dictionary and then get all pleased as punch and think you’re clever, you aren’t.
It’s plain to see that this, and all the other mindless hating is total bullshit. If anyone watched the performance against Belarus they’ll either be vindicated or forced to eat their words.
Oh and calling Scousers stupid? Really? The last time I was at Chelsea (I used to be a steward there) it was full of brain surgeons with swallow tattoos shouting racist abuse at whoever would listen.
You bitter little Chelsea shites are so transparent, I almost feel sorry for you.
Tony - one half decent performance in a blue moon for England? fantastic, let’s all go back to kissing his arse again and thank him for gracing England with his presence. We’ll forget him showing himself up in front of an open goal eh? lol.
Oh and Rooney’s was the performance of the night, Gerrard’s didnt even come close.
Considering the pereneal underachievers that Chelski present to the England team I wouldn’t be so trappy if I were you.
Gerrard is far and away the best midfielder in the world at the moment, all the bullshit little hating stories that you dredge up won’t change that fact, and they won’t change the fact that he declined the ‘opportunity’ to sign on with the rest of your money hungry, mercenary little tourists.
And Rooney’s performance was the one, was it? You were obviously watching a different game than the rest of the world then. Without Heskey and Gerrard, Rooney wouldn’t have scored at all.
Try presenting a real case against Gerrard, rather than just the usual anti-Scouse bullshit that you so boringly keep repeating.
Tony - I talk bullshit and you reckon Gerrard’s the best midfielder in the world at the moment, that’s rich! lol
Right, let me try and speak slowly to you. It’s a shame I can’t get a crayon out and draw you a nice, pretty picture:
Rather than making stupid, tittering comments try coming back with a counter argument based upon facts, experience, statistics - that’s traditionally how adults debate points.
All this rubbish you post, it’s so easy to see through. Why do you bother?
England boss Fabio Capello has praised Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard for his humility.
He said: “I like what he said this week.
“I like a player who is willing to be critical of himself. A lot of players criticise the manager, the coaches. But he has shown respect for other players, for the manager and he has shown humility.”
So Gerrard admitted he’s been poor for England and got a pat on the back for it. He’s not the first player to acknowledge poor form and he won’t be the last. he’s just held up as the shining example as usual. I still don’t get what that’s got to do with being the stand-alone man when it came to backing the rest of his team-mates’ opinions over the booing though. Try sticking to the point Tony - that’s traditionally how adults debate.
I have been sticking to the point, try and keep up.
As I’ve been saying, why should Gerrard, who (to be fair to him) has shouldered a lot of criticism for his England performances (along with a lot of other notable names) change his own personal opinion to fall into tow with the rest of the squad?
He’s taken his boo’s like a man, as have other names but as soon as it’s Bishley everyone jumps to his defence. Cole has been reprehensible off the field and shit on it, why shouldn’t he be booed?
Cole has behaved like a twat, no arguments there. Shit on ithe field though? you obviously haven’t seen much of him this season otherwise you wouldn’t make such a ridiculous statement. But whatever he’s done, it’s as a Chelsea player, when he puts an England shirt on his back, I just don’t agree that club bias should come into it. I hate Gerrard with a passion but would I ever boo him when he’s wearing an England shirt - No, because he’s representing the country I support.
And its not about him ‘changing’ his personal opinion, it just might have been better to say nothing in this instance seeing as his personal opinion went against what the rest of his team-mates had said. Doesn’t do much for the ‘team’ ethic imo.
To be honest i think Cole’s one of the more overrated Chelsea players. He was average at Arsenal and he’s improved a gnats since the transfer but I just don’t rate him.
Why shouldn’t Gerrard speak his mind though? I certainly don’t agree that he should say nothing or side with his team-mates. More people should come out and say what they think rather than being told what to say by managers and coaches, they are individual people after all, not clones.
Well then that’s where we disagree because in the current climate, particularly with games at our own national stadium seeming to hinder rather than help us, I think its even more important for the team to adopt a united front and pull together.
As for Cole, we disagree again because he was anything but average at Arsenal and he might well have looked overrated when his form didn’t transfer for us, but right now, under Scolari I’d have to say he’s one of our most improved players.
Now he’s been given freedom to run a little more he’s improved, that I agree with. When he was at Arsenal I really didn’t see what the big fuss was about, he lost the ball alot - too much in fact. Yeah, he’s quick but I’d rather have a slower and more complete player.
I’ll concede that booing a player because of the team he plays for is a waste of time in International football but I genuinely don’t think Cole was booed for the fact that he’s a Chelsea player, he was booed for being cocky and making a bone-headed decision.
And that’s the trouble with Ashley Cole, his past behaviour is such that even a missplaced backpass will be regarded as arrogant cockiness irrespective of his intentions I guess. I actually think he is a more complete player now though. He had no choice under Mourinho’s regime but to improve the defensive side of his game and now Scolari is allowing him that freedom to get forward as well, he’s much more of an asset than his reputation suggests.