Vocalizing Sport

Although a little inappropriate to discuss joke of the year as Manchester United fans, after suffering a humiliating 4-1 defeat to Liverpool at Old Trafford only yesterday. However it seems to me that Liverpool’s very own Fernando Torres cracked one of the best jokes ever, mainly for England fans when he described Liverpool team mate Steven Gerrard as “the best in the world” after speculation linking Gerrard with a move to Real Madrid after he became the man who replaced current World Player of the Year, Cristiano Ronaldo as the top transfer target for Real Madrid.

Now I must agree that Steven Gerrard is a great player, but the best in the World? I have to disagree. Cristiano Ronaldo may not have shown this “Greatest Player” tag consistently at international level, but atleast he has been able to demonstrate that he can work with other brilliant players as a team. When England needed Gerrard and Lampard to work together as a fantastic partnership, which on paper is arguably the best central midfield pairing ever, in practice it was an awful partnership.

Although I cannot fully blame Gerrard for the failure of both his partnership with Lampard and the England team’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008 under Steve McClaren, now manager of FC Twente. Playing as a central midfielder, we as England fans, expect he and Lampard to be working together, pulling the strings and forming a fordible team that would help build England up as to one of the great footballing nations once again.

So before any Liverpool player starts shooting their mouths off about how great Gerrard is and how he should be considered “The World’s Best Player”, maybe if he puts in consistently great, team working performances, especially with Lampard in the central midfield role with him, then I may consider him to be half the player of what Ronaldo currently is.