Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has offered Steven Gerrard the club’s full support as he stands trial for Nightclub brawl. Steven Gerrard is currently appearing at Liverpool Crown Court whilst his team mates are on a pre-season tour of the South East Asia but the Reds manager has given his captain total backing and revealed that he is in regular contact with his skipper.

Rafael Benitez said, “I talk with him everyday, it is okay. He has the support of the club and, for sure, the fans. I think that it will be okay so we are confident that everything will be good and at the end he will be playing for us and scoring a lot of goals.”

However, we got new updates on the current ongoing case against Steven Gerrard and his friends. Yesterday Stevie G told Liverpool crown court that he punched Marcus McGee three times during a clash at a bar in Southport.

When Steven Gerrard was asked how he felt now, the liverpool captain added, “I am certainly mistaken in thinking he was coming towards me to throw punches at me. Now I know, obviously, he had been struck, reacted and thought the strike was by me and he came into me and that’s when I reacted”.

“I am sorry about the whole incident.”

Gerrard denied that he had lost control on the night of the fight. He had been drinking at the Lounge Inn in Southport to celebrate a 5-1 victory over Newcastle earlier that day. The footballer had been drinking Budweiser and a sweet liqueur drink called a Jammy Donut shot, estimating his level of drunkenness as seven out of 10. Gerrard remained calm and quietly spoken as he gave evidence, repeatedly sipping a glass of water as he stood in the witness box.

“It was very difficult at the time to explain to the police why I did throw the first blows. But it was because I was arguing and I felt as if Marcus was coming forward to hit me.”

He told the jury he had been used to people “mithering” him and he was usually able to smooth things over.

Gerrard said he suffered “a lot of mither” at traffic lights, shopping centres, bars and restaurants and the comments can be “derogatory or insulting”.

He admitted calling McGee “a prick” to one of his friends when he refused to change the music.

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