Steven Gerrard's murky past.

buyer95 · 22-01-2014 03:00AM #1

This is obviously an old story, but one that I was unaware of. Just thought others might also have been unaware of his ties to unsavoury characters. Obviously Gerrard isn't the only footballer with connections to undesirables. Rooney, Terry, Anthony Stokes, Rio Ferdinand are all names that immediately spring to mind. It interests me why the game of football,in particular, appears to be more susceptible to its players having gangland/terrorist links than any other.

When the name of the character witness was read out to the sleepy jury at Lincoln Crown Court this week, even the doziest of their number sprang to rapt attention.

Steven George Gerrard MBE - captain of Liverpool Football Club, occasional captain of England and role model to millions of impressionable youngsters - wished it to be known that he had "the utmost respect" for the man who stood in the dock.

Never mind that the defendant, John Kinsella, was a known gangster charged with tying up a security guard during a £41,000 robbery.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-560616/Soccer-star-gangsters-Steven-Gerrard-murky-depths-Liverpools-underworld.html

Sir Arthur Daley · 22-01-2014 03:01AM

Cab you summarise that OP, way too much for this hour of the night to be reading.

dodderangler · 22-01-2014 03:07AM

Seemed interesting but op that's near a poxy novel you've just posted. Boll0x that.

Jonkenji · 22-01-2014 03:10AM

I could read the lord of the rings trilogy in less time than reading that.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 22-01-2014 03:12AM

Being from a rough area doesn't give you a murky past. A fella I played football with as a kid, and swapped computer games with is in jail for possessing drugs and a gun. I've never been convicted of any crime, nor arrested. Do I've a murky past by association?

Sir Arthur Daley · 22-01-2014 03:12AM

160 word cap should be introduced.

Vito Corleone · 22-01-2014 03:12AM

I don't see the big deal, we've all associated with unsavory characters at some point in our lives.

buyer95 · 22-01-2014 03:31AM

Duracell Bunny wrote: »

Being from a rough area doesn't give you a murky past. A fella I played football with as a kid, and swapped computer games with is in jail for possessing drugs and a gun. I've never been convicted of any crime, nor arrested. Do I've a murky past by association?

Not saying that, and I suppose the thread title is misleading. Gerrard did not just associate with these people, he felt the need to invoke the use of one John Kinsella, self professed "fixer", and gangland criminal, to ward off the the threat being placed on him from another gangster George Bromley Jnr, whp was threatening to shoot the Liverpool captain in the legs and maim him as well as demanding money from him. From article -Bromley decided to use Stevie as a cash machine, basically, and started demanding large sums of money."

One would presume that the Gerrard's did not willingly write the character reference letter to the court for Kinsella who stood accused of tying up a security guard during a £41,000 robbery. The implication is that this was a favour called in by Kinsella, as payback for sorting out the Bromley problem. In fact the article claims that Kinsella visited Steven's father the night before his trial, demanding that Steven be there in person to give a character reference. This is not the same as simply knowing a fella when you were young who got knicked for drug possession.

Secondly, and perhaps most interestingly, the article claims that Gerards proposed transfer to Chelsea was blocked at the 11th hour by liverpudlian gangsters. I remember at the time that the deal was supposed to be practically done, when Gerrard gave the press conference stating that he was staying with the reds. The article claims that on the night that Stevie was to sign for Chelsea, Gerrard had a visit from his father Paul, who informed him that he would be putting their lives at risk by leaving the club. Gerrard buckled under the pressure and stayed.

Did your childhood friend still exert that level of influence on you in your adult life?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 22-01-2014 03:50AM

Interesting read. I really can't blame him in looking for alternative ways to protect his family from a very real and credible threat when the police option was exhausted. I'd consider it an instinctual valid response to be honest.

I known it's quite separate but still on the 'is this person a scumbag or not' vibe but wasn't Mike Tyson jailed for rape and domestic violence and he bit a felas ear off and he threatened interviewers and did loads of crazy nutbar factor 5 sh1t and he was hated and vilified by the media and the general public.
Yet now he stars in hit movies, is generally respected, is usually liked and warmly received by most.

It's funny how perceptions change in my opinion.

AllGunsBlazing · 22-01-2014 04:02AM

As nerve racking as it must have been for Gerrard it's nothing compared to what some South American footballers have to endure. As in kidnapped family members and the very real possibility of being gunned down in the street.

KungPao · 22-01-2014 04:03AM

Reads like a plot from a film. Just needs an ending.

I always wondered why he stayed at Liverpool. Could have signed for the likes of Chelsea or Real Madrid at his peak, while LFC started going backwards. Real game-changer of a player.

I guess we know why now.

KungPao · 22-01-2014 04:04AM

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

As bad as that story reads it's nothing compared to what some South American footballer have to endure. As in kidnapped family members and the very real possibility of being gunned down in the street.

One Andres Escobar springs to mind

My name is URL · 22-01-2014 04:08AM

WikiHow wrote: »

Cab you summarise that OP, way too much for this hour of the night to be reading.

He's from Liverpool

lkionm · 22-01-2014 04:14AM

Ah lads, stop the lights with those long comments

buyer95 · 22-01-2014 04:15AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Interesting read. I really can't blame him in looking for alternative ways to protect his family from a very real and credible threat when the police option was exhausted. I'd consider it an instinctual valid response to be honest.

I known it's quite separate but still on the 'is this person a scumbag or not' vibe but wasn't Mike Tyson jailed for rape and domestic violence and he bit a felas ear off and he threatened interviewers and did loads of crazy nutbar factor 5 sh1t and he was hated and vilified by the media and the general public.
Yet now he stars in hit movies, is generally respected, is usually liked and warmly received by most.

It's funny how perceptions change in my opinion.

The fact that Gerrard felt that the need to call in a gangsters to deal with a threatening person speaks volumes, he informed the police and this got him nowhere. Sounds almost like a breakdown in society, mob rule kind of stuff...

buyer95 · 22-01-2014 04:27AM

Lapin wrote: »

Ah good, the Steven Gerrard copy and paste thread. I've been looking everywhere on Boards for to ment (Popular Footballer: 2006

Ah disciples of Gerrard, come in I was expecting you...

Cookie_Monster · 22-01-2014 04:45AM

WikiHow wrote: »

Cab you summarise that OP, way too much for this hour of the night to be reading.

lots of footballers are scumbags and hang around with other scumbags.
hardly a revelation now...

taytothief · 22-01-2014 04:50AM

Have you nothing for doing OP?

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 22-01-2014 04:50AM

buyer95 wrote: »

Ah disciples of Gerrard, come in I was expecting you...

You quoted the entire post to write that. You haven't been paying much attention, have ya?

buyer95 · 22-01-2014 05:12AM

taytothief wrote: »

Have you nothing for doing OP?

College student, off till end of the month, so no, I'll sleep till late.

Ruu · 22-01-2014 05:32AM

Edited the OP, that was frankly a mess.

Mod.

MonaPizza · 22-01-2014 06:59AM

Duracell Bunny wrote: »

Being from a rough area doesn't give you a murky past. A fella I played football with as a kid, and swapped computer games with is in jail for possessing drugs and a gun. I've never been convicted of any crime, nor arrested. Do I've a murky past by association?

hear hear!

at the tender age of 13,14 I used to knock about with a lad.

I went to University.

He joined, and was killed, during a CIRA operation.

FUCK THAT!

Sunglasses Ron · 22-01-2014 08:46AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

but wasn't Mike Tyson jailed for rape and domestic violence

There was quite a bit of credible defense evidence not allowed to be heard at his rape trial.

As regards murky pasts, Tyson obviously knew some hard bastards from his youth. One of his best childhood friends growing to being the hitman who tried, and failed, to kill 50 Cent (before he was famous).

As regards footballers I doubt there are many with a level of scobe in their closet as Joey Barton's brother and cousin.

BillyMitchel · 22-01-2014 10:30AM

When I lived in the UK there were always stories going around about Stevie G.

There was a big gangster after him at one point and the said gangster was called "Pancake".

Do you know why he was called Pancake?

Because he was always flipping out.

Augmerson · 22-01-2014 10:40AM

Why didn't you post this in the Soccer forum OP?

D-FENS · 22-01-2014 10:52AM

No worse than him vouching for Suarez

Cantona's Collars · 22-01-2014 10:53AM

Augmerson wrote: »

Why didn't you post this in the Soccer forum OP?

It'd turn into a clusterfuck within 20 minutes as Gerard supporters will deny he ever had links to shady figures in Liverpool.He's not as innocent as he'd like people to believe. Remember when he was caught on CCTV punching a dj but somehow got away with it?

Many footballers have murky pasts or skeletons in their closets.Jermaine Pennant,John Terry - parents are drug dealers.

Ravel Morrison - running with a crew of gangsters in Manchester.

Tipsy McSwagger · 22-01-2014 10:59AM

taytothief wrote: »

Have you nothing for doing OP?

He supports Man Utd so he should be getting prepared for a mid table finish.

shadowcomplex · 22-01-2014 11:02AM

You think that's bad? Have heard who he plays for ?

padd b1975 · 22-01-2014 11:15AM

I think his wife has far more dodgy connections than he has.

Popular terrace chant aimed at Stevie...

'who's that coming over your wife?

Is it a gangster, is it a gangster?'

Econoline Van · 22-01-2014 11:27AM

zerks wrote: »

Remember when he was caught on CCTV punching a dj but somehow got away with it?.

The DJ alleged that Gerrard was violently demanding some Phil Collins be played.

I imagine the magistrates thought the scenario too unlikely.

Steven Gerrard's murky past.

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