Steven Gerrard's ONE-ON-ONE (part-3)

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2005年12月號 FourFourTwo雜誌 p.20-24 小傑接受訪問，回答球迷的問題持續是有關足球的部分之二 =============================================== Q:Did you think you'd missed your chance as a footballer when you didn't quite make it to Lilleshall in 1994? (Dave Atkins, via e-mail) Definitely. I thought it was over. When I read the letter, my dad was saying:"forget about it, don't worry" and Steve Heighway, our coach at Liverpool, was on the phone telling me that it wasn't the end of the world and that he'd rather I stayed in Liverpool anyway. He told me that it wasn't just for football reasons that I'd not going to, but because of other factors like your size, what you're like around the other players and how you are at school. But I was convinced that I wasn't good enough and decided just to play for enjoyment from then on, not to expect a career out of game. In hindsight, it was maybe the kick up the backside that I needed. I really wanted to prove them wrong and you do acturally get a chance to play against the Lilleshall side the following season for your club. Liverpool lost, but I did well. And I kicked few! -- Q:What's the worst individual performance you've seen at any level on football field? (Home and away Red, Anfield) [Laughs] Easy. A good mate called Paul McGratten asked me to come and watch him play. He'd been on the phonefor three weeks asking me to get him some boots - and not old ones either! So I got him some Predators and I turned up to watch him and there were quite a few people there. Before the game he was doing all the shouts and warming up properly. I thought "I didn't realise he could play a bit." Then the game started and he was an embarrassment to himself and his family. I felt humiliated too. It was the worst performance I've ever, ever seen. I lasted 14 minutes on the sidelines. He blamed it on the boots being too small. I blamed it on him being shit! -- Q:Did Liverpool have any initiation ceremonies for its young players? If so, what wewe they? (Smiler, Melbourne) Yes, we have regular team bonding sessions and the new players have to sing, either when they sign or break into the first team. I had to sing "Angels" by Robbie Williams. Do you want me to sing it? [FourFourTwo nods] Yeah, right! I was allowed to have a couple of beers to settle my nerves. If you're no good then you get swilled - beer thrown at you. I managed to only get swilled by a few of them. -- Q:Even as a kid, did you realise that the Evans-Houllier experiment would never to work? (Mikey Red, via e-mail) I was a YTS at the time and not in the first team so I wasn't really affected by it. They started really well but I'm not a great believer in joint managers because certain situations can lead to confusion. I believe in one manager saying what goes and sticking by that. When I got into the first team it was Gerard and he was a very good manager who I really enjoyed working with. -- Q:You were injured so many times in your lateteens and early-20s that we thought you were jinxed. What sorted you out? Didn't Houllier send you to a French dentist? (Paul Taylor, Wandsworth) I dentifitely thought I was jinxed because it seemed that every time a big game came up I wasn't able to play. The medical people said it was down to my body still developing and that I wasn't ready to play two or three games in a week. Houllier advised me to see a French guy, a specialist on back problems. because that's where the pains were coming from. So I went to see him once a month and got better as I grew and got stronger physically. I saw the dentist separately to have my wisdom teeth out. I had all four taken out at the same time [winces]. It was nasty. One of my worst day. -- 我第一次看到他是在2002年的日韓世界盃上他身披藍白條紋戰袍為永恆的王者阿根廷作戰靈巧輕盈的身影頂著一頭天真無邪的希臘少年捲髮 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.112.114.15 ※ 編輯: nofumi 來自: 140.112.114.15 (12/06 11:45)