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Last Thursday (24/11/16), Steven Gerrard confirmed his retirement from football after over eighteen years in the professional game. Gerrard spent the first seventeen years of his career at boyhood club Liverpool before moving to LA Galaxy for the final eighteen months of his glittering career. The midfielder made 748 appearances for the two clubs, scoring 191 goals in the process, and won 114 caps for England, in which he netted 21 times. Here I am going to highlight 15 key …

Steven Gerrard leaving Liverpool a year ago was the epitome of sadness for Liverpool fans. We’ve lost a legend, a leader, and a player who could guide academy graduates or incoming players to settle in Merseyside and show them what it means exactly to play for Liverpool Football Club. Plenty of names have left the club in it’s history, but only a few are regarded highly enough to be remembered. Liverpool fans are a fine bunch. We remember, respect, and …

From Champions League group stage debutants Ludogorets Razgrad, to the most successful team in the history of the competition, Real Madrid; Liverpool’s return to the European elite has thrown up a mixed bag of a group which will see the defending champions roll up at Anfield on Wednesday evening. It should be one of those European nights at Anfield, but given Liverpool’s recent defensive troubles the game will be approached with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. These feelings are …

Opposing fans often tease Liverpool supporters over our tendency to re-live past successes. The usual "you're living in the past" is a favourite comment, or "if you were winning titles now you wouldn't need to keep bringing it up" and "your club's history not the future." The thing is, living in the past for Liverpool fans, is simply unbeatable. Every club has their history - some good and some bad. However, 9 years ago, one night in Istanbul, arguably one …

Part Two: ‘You will not be allowed to win…’ - The first part of the series available here: Part 1 In Liverpool’s first season in European competition, they had surprised a lot of people. English pundits and reporters who didn’t think they were up to it, foreign reporters and pundits who had never heard of them and experienced European clubs who thought they knew better. They had made a lot of friends along the way with the quality of their …

LFC’s first Controversial European Campaign To do this story of the first steps into Liverpool FC's momentous European story a modicum of justice would require a decent sized book - maybe I'll write it if Tony Evans doesn't beat me to it - who knows? However, that’s not really on under the ongoing circumstances of an Anfield Index article, so I’ve decided for reasons of scale to split this story into two digestible parts. Part One: Getting there… Real Madrid …