Sour Reds Fans Leave Bitter Taste by Turning On Gerrard ; Having Worshipped Him for so Long, Some Liverpool Supporters Claimed Today the Club Should Sell Their Captain This Summer. But It Is Wrong to Make Him the Scapegoat for Losing the Final, Says Ian Chadband

Evening Standard - London › February 28, 2005

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WHEN football fans turn on their own, it is not a pretty sight.

Steven Gerrard may have endured a private hell in the Millennium Stadium but he certainly did not merit the sort of malevolent rubbish that has been thrown at him by some Liverpool supporters over the past 24 hours.

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Sour Reds Fans Leave Bitter Taste by Turning On Gerrard ; Having Worshipped Him for so Long, Some Liverpool Supporters Claimed Today the Club Should Sell Their Captain This Summer. But It Is Wrong to Make Him the Scapegoat for Losing the Final, Says Ian Chadband

Perusing some of the club's websites today made instructive reading.

A man who has never given anything but total commitment in the cause of a great but creaking club since he was an eight-year-old dreamer is now suddenly being portrayed as everything fr...

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