Steven Gerrard gets delighted after not found guilty of Affrey

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:57:24 +0000

Steven Gerrard and all of Steven Gerrard fans get delight after Steven Gerrard was found not guilty of affray today. The Liverpool captain was cleared of unjustly attacking Marcus McGee, 34, in a Southport bar last December. Jury accepted his explanation that it was in self-defence.

Hundreds of Steven Gerrard fans greeted him outside the city’s Crown Court and shouts of “come on Rocky” on his way out of court. Stevie G admitted he was a relieved man.

He said, “Can I just say how pleased I am with today’s verdict. I had like to put this case behind me. I’m really looking forward to the season ahead and concentrating on football. I’d like to say a big thank you to my legal team, my friends and family and to everyone at Liverpool Football Club for supporting me.’

Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez admitted he was happy to hear the outcome of the high-profile case. “We are really pleased. He is very important for us and he can now focus just on football. We are all pleased at the club and over here at the training camp”. Benitez said.

He added, “We have been supporting him all the time and were just waiting for the decision. Now he can concentrate just on football and hopefully play at the same level as last year.”

The trial heard that Gerrard, 29, was with friends including Anfield legend Kenny Dalglish, 58, at the time of the incident at the Lounge Inn at Southport, Merseyside, when Gerrard and associates clashed with McGee over control of a CD player.

The prosecution had said Gerrard, from Formby, Merseyside, became furious that his request was refused and “lost it”, punching Mr McGee “with the style and speed of a professional boxer”.

Liverpool captain Gerrard denied affray, saying he believed McGee was about to assault him, and acted in self-defence.

The 29-year-old Liverpool captain and England’s best attacking midfielder was the only one of seven defendants to be cleared over the “explosion of violence” as Judge Henry Globe QC, the Recorder of Liverpool, described the event.

Steven Gerrard: “I am sorry about the whole incident”

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:41:52 +0000

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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