CLASSIC CLIPS | Steven Gerrard Admits “I Didn’t Appreciate It Enough” During Liverpool Career
That Peter Crouch Podcast
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
FROM THE VAULT: In this clip from last year’s Liverpool Legends episode, Steven Gerrard joins the lads to reflect on the realities of life at the very top with Liverpool—and what it truly cost him.
The Liverpool icon opens up on the relentless pressure of representing his boyhood club, admitting he may not have fully appreciated his career in the moment due to the intensity and expectations that came with it. Gerrard also shares how stepping away from management has allowed him to rediscover normal life, from spending time with family to simply enjoying the freedom he rarely had during his playing days.
He looks back on the unforgettable highs—including his Anfield debut and iconic moments like Istanbul—while also revealing the mental toll of living and breathing football in a city where “everything is red.” Gerrard also discusses leadership, setting standards at Liverpool, and the responsibility he felt as captain to uphold the club’s elite mentality.
With this year’s Liverpool Legends episode just around the corner, this is a perfect chance to revisit one of the game’s greatest midfielders in a rare, honest reflection on career, pressure, and life after football.
If you like this clip, you can catch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKAuoKEjYhc
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| 0:00.0 | Right, here we are. We've got the main man, Mr Stephen Gerard. |
| 0:07.1 | I don't know about that. Well, yeah, come on, the main man here. |
| 0:11.2 | The big draw, the reason we sell out. How's it going? |
| 0:16.0 | Good, mate, yeah. Stress-free, hard of work in terms of the coaching and the management, |
| 0:20.0 | which is obviously 24-7. |
| 0:21.7 | So back in the pool, a couple of weeks. Yeah. I'm going to try and make the Merseyside Derby. See you friends and family, mate. So I'm great. I'm all good. Yeah, enjoying. I know obviously you want to be in work and things, but is it nice to kind of sit back and come back to your home city and do normal things again? I don't want to be back in work, mate. |
| 0:37.8 | Do you not? |
| 0:38.2 | No. |
| 0:38.5 | Not at the moment. |
| 0:39.4 | I've just come out. |
| 0:40.4 | So I'm happy with waking up and being free and doing the family stuff and just just being free away from stress and all that. I will go back in at some point. But when it's around the clock, I've been doing it 18, 19 months in terms of the last job. |
| 0:54.4 | I just want to be free. |
| 0:55.2 | I want to go and have a game of golf. |
| 0:56.2 | I want to go down the goose or have a couple of beers. I want to do normal things that you can't really do with your coach. So I'm all good. Yeah, good. Well, how nice is it to come and see when you, this is my first one I've done? So nice to see the lads you played with |
| 1:10.4 | and shared so many amazing memories with. |
| 1:12.7 | Listen, I think, the main priorities, obviously the cause that we do for the foundations, this foundation, the Chelsea Foundation. But I know the next big draw is to get back in the dressing room with the lads and, you know, run it back if you like. Obviously, you can't run as fast and you can't think as fast. And the intensity is not the same, but so have a game of footy with your next team mates is a big draw for me. I've just travel seven hours to do this. That's why I come back to play at Amfield, full house. See the lads. Have a game of footy great crack and you scored you scored a |
| 1:44.4 | belt to last time |
| 1:45.2 | right |
| 1:45.4 | it was actually |
| 1:46.3 | a couple of games |
| 1:47.0 | ago yeah |
| 1:47.3 | a couple of games yeah I was desperate to score oh I'm dying to as well well listen as soon as I get within range just gonna just get up I know where you're I know where you're I've been tapping everyone up |
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