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Gerrard fight
Posted by Bingham on 21 July 2009 - 5:03pm.
So the Gerrard punch up in a Southport club was over the DJ's choice of music..what music would cause the him to act so violently?....certainly nothing low brow..what does the Massive think?
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A non-lawyer writes
Umm... unless we're going to couch everything in terms of "allegedly", this is best left alone until the court case is concluded. Seriously.
Low brow
heh heh!
Indeed, m'lud
cos if the 12 good men and true of the jury were to be members of the Massive they might be swayed if we suggested that Stevie was requesting that Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting be played.
I think
'berk'.
Incredibly, it was over Phil Collins (58)
which, even more incredibly, Mr. Gerrard (29) wanted played.
Is that libellous?
Be beautiful
if it was "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
We need to hear
Both Sides of the Story. Maybe Mr. G wanted the "Hits" album played but, Against all Odds, someone refused his request and he showed his True Colours. "Take Me Home" said a tired Mr. G...
No
You have to be kidding.
according to Popbitch
this was played six times. I guess Stevie G doesn't like latin tinged 80s pop
Erm...
...without wishing to say too much, the playing of the song alluded to a vile, entirely unsubstantiated rumour concerning Steven Gerrard's family.
Can you imagine the kind of provocation
someone like Steven Gerrard is subjected to pretty much anywhere he goes in public. Especially licensed premises. Steven Gerrard is a hard player but not a violent one and I don’t remember him ever “flaring up” even though he’s been a marked man for so long.
I suspect his “victim” wasn’t entirely innocent.
Max Clifford involved yet?
Maybe the alledged victim
was a Stool Pigeon ..ha,cha,cha,cha
I don't know how this came to pass...
he normally dives if anyone's within five yards of him!
nah
you're confusing him with that mardy Ronaldo!
Unlike Mr Collins
he didn't miss again.
Allegedly.
Ooops
laptop malfunction!
Could you please delete the first two posts, Mr Lewry?
And in any case
Who cares?
Footballer's Dubious Taste in Music
I remember reading that Victoria and David Beckham used to take the mickey out of Ryan Giggs because he loved Steps.
No,
it was step-OVERS :-)
Have you read this?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2545893/Cristiano-R...
Sorry I refuse to even visit their website
.
Ronaldo is thick
If he thinks Oasis are better than the Beatles
he probably thinks Shakin Stevens is better than Elvis too
what a winker
Rich prick
in punch up shocker. Who gives a flying fxxxxxxx?
Would you expect a footballer
to have anything but the most boring taste in music?
That aside, it's because someone dared say no to him and he couldn't handle it. Arsehole.
That was the verdict from...
... the Five-Centres jury. Would bet a pound to a penny he get's let off with a warning.
Change the name from Gerrard to Barton, it would be a different story in the press.
You're probably right
The jury have been made to sign forms saying they won't let their love of the team cloud their judgment. Hmmmm....
who is this bloke?
Never heard of him until this story today. You might have guessed I have no knowledge of (nor interest in) footie. And apparently he's some football oik. Well good for the bloke who said No - a few more people should do the same. Nothing nicer than puncturing these assholes' egos - it's quite delightful.
See my post above...
...and you might revise your opinion of the people involved.
Perhaps
...but only by approx a nanometre.
Never heard of the bloke
know nothing about the case.
But here's my opinion on it anyway.
Fantastic.
The Daily Mail website is that way.
I know it's all a matter of
I know it's all a matter of taste, and one man's wine is another's poison but exactly WHY do footballers, both old and new, have dreadful taste (in clothes, in cars, in houses, but especially...)
in music?
You can't even imagine any of the 60's generation liking anything more edgy than Tom Jones or 'Vegas' Elvis. From memory, most seemed to idolize Sinatra.
Is it written into their contracts or something?
Of course, it is not limited to footballers.
Kevin Pietersen's all-time hero seems to be Simon Cowell.
He absolutely adores the guy apparently.
Why? How? It's got to be adequate reason to drop him from the Ashes team.
Er...
Elvis started his first Las Vegas residency in July 1969...
Er...
Elvis started his first Las Vegas residency in July 1969...
And since when has liking Frank Sinatra been 'dreadful taste in music'?
The answer lies, I would wager, in sociology
English professional footballers are mostly solid lads from working-class backgrounds and their tastes reflect those of their peers. Perhaps there are footballers who live in Islington, have a taste for biodynamic wines of the southern Rhone, buy their clothes from Crew and Boden, read Russian literature and are looking forward to the new Turin Brakes CD. If there are, they are probably French. If English then they will be known to their mates as either a) "Professor" or b) "Poof".
In the same way that
from the late 70's or so to the early 90's a liking for Alexander O'Neal, Luther Vandross and/or George Benson seemed to be de rigeur.
Nothing necessarily wrong with any of that, just not my cup of tea, thanks.
The Liverpool squad did an i-pod randomizer
on the eve of the European Cup Final in Athens, 2007:
Peter Crouch: The Weekend - Byron Stingley
Steven Gerrard: Dakota - Stereophonics
Jamie Carragher: Waterfall - Stone Roses, In My Life - Johnny Cash
Pepe Reina: Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor, “The Training Montage from Rocky IV”
Robbie Fowler: Everybody’s Changing - Keane
Luis Garcia: Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
Sami Hyypia: Numb/Encore - Jay Z & Linkin Park
Craig Bellamy: Red Red Wine - UB40
Xabi Alonso: Stand By Me - Oasis
Daniel Agger: Gardens Tale - Volbeat (Danish heavy metal)
A fairly typical representative sample of the musical tastes of young men of that age, I’d say.
Footballers are normal people when it comes to music, i.e. they have the kind of taste that “people who are really into music” sneer at.
A rare exception
Working in a second hand record shop, I sold a copy of the Swans 12" EP Raping A Slave to Pat Nevin.
Pat Nevin was an NME-reading indie kid
who looked like Johnny Marr.
I once sold Neville Southall a leather piano key tie when I put in a Christmas stint at Burtons. He was with Adrian “Inchy” Heath who persuaded the sartorially clueless Neville that this was just the thing for the Everton Xmas party. (How footballers love their “wind-ups”.) Weird to think that footballers once shopped for clothes in Burtons.
I served Chris Woods [England Keeper]
when I worked for Our Price ... can't remember what he bought...Phil Collins probably
Wasn't KP's wife 'discovered'...
... or made famous by a Simon Cowell production?
Gerrard cleared...
...and rightly so:-
Steven Gerrard found not guilty of affray
oh yeah
justice is done...Johnny Cochran sleep peacefully
If all you know of this case...
...is what you've read in the press, then you haven't heard the half of it.
Do tell...
You inferred that Kid Creole may be involved...
Erm, I'd like to...
...but I'm not sure if I can without appearing to cast aspersions on one of the parties involved.
Hmmmmm...
...and yet every single one of his mates was somehow guilty of at least one related offence?
How did that happen?
Oh that's good...
now I can safely launch some upper-cuts into the face of the guy that looked at me funny in the pub last night....don't worry folks I'll find him.
OK....
I would assume therefore that the oh-so-hilarious actions of the DJ bloke in playing a Kid Creole track repeatedly would imply that "one of the parties" has been cuckolded?
Yes, that's the root of it.
The news coverage (BBC) of this case presents it simply as an argument over possession of a CD control player, which doesn't add up. When you learn that a certain song had been played repeatedly, it begins to make more sense, especially if you're aware of both the vile rumour concerning one of the parties and the footballing allegiance of the other, which presumably they felt justified their petty behaviour that night.
If this had been a case of 'dick provokes group of people, persisting even when asked to desist and ends up getting a slap', a lot of people would have thought 'serves him right' and there certainly wouldn't have been this circus had a famous footballer not had the misfortune to be involved.
Also, questions have to be asked about why the case was brought at all, considering the CCTV footage (provided by someone working for the club or the police, presumably) was on YouTube shortly after the incident.
The internet
seems to be complicating the judicial process
wasn't the Baby P trial jeopardised by people posting the names of the accused on blogs?
interesting times.