Steven Gerrard's comments after the 2006 FA Cup final shows he was a class above in more ways than one LFC
Alan Pardew has detailed how an exchange with Steven Gerrard after the 2006 FA Cup final convinced him that the Liverpool legend was ‘a special person’.
The Hammers took a shock 2-0 lead that afternoon, before the game was drawn level at 2-2 with Gerrard getting the goal.Gerrard clawed the game back once again with a wonderful long-range volley that soared past Shaka Hislop in the Irons’ goal. As Rafa Benitez’s side celebrated their victory, Pardew was pondering what had just happened when he was approached by Gerrard in a moment that showed the now-Aston Villa boss’s class., Pardew said: “He was very humble to me after the game. He knew we had come so close. He came up to me and he wasn’t full of beans, jumping around. Nothing like that.