article_snippet: I want to make sure that I have no regrets when my playing career is eventually over,’ Steven Gerrard said back then, less than three months ago.
article_snippet: his first ever Liverpool strike had provided a two-goal cushion when a makeshift Liverpool side - hit by injuries - was struggling against bottom-of-the-table Wednesday in 1999.
article_snippet: To not even be considered as a regular starter, to reduce his own swan-song by three games due to a moment of madness, is not how his would have imagined his own swan-song ending 16 years later.
article_snippet: Or that a 19-year-old Gerrard was not at the heart of their 13-game unbeaten run in the Premier League which was driving the team towards a Champions League spot.
article_snippet: That a 19-year-old Gerrard would start just five of those and then be so largely to blame for their capitulation in the 14th.
article_snippet: The infamous slip last season against Chelsea, which many credit for ending Liverpool’s title chances, could have been buried beneath all the trophies and silverware.
article_snippet: a 19-year-old Gerrard greatness will never be forgotten, but neither will these high-profile errors at the end if they keep occurring.
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