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Steven Gerrard is Liverpool through and through. He was born in Whiston Hospital just six miles east of Melwood training ground and nine miles away from Anfield. Growing up on the Bluebell council estate in Huyton, about five miles east of the city centre, Gerrard spent most of his time kicking a football around with his older brother on a small patch of grass and a concrete cul-de-sac right outside his front door. He later credited these games with building his trademark tou

There I was, just 8 years old, pressed against two of my best mates, watching the Champions League finals, 2018, Real Madrid against Liverpool. It was three in the morning. It felt like the world had gone elsewhere, leaving only the game and us to bear witness. We wanted to be pundits and critique their play, but we were awestruck and kept silent, the way children do when they sense something sacred. It was only when Madrid lifted La Decimotercera that I let my whisper slip o

La Pampa stands tranquil to the still acres of its ranches. The whistle of a wind’s morning brisk. A group of tall grass bows over, and so does another, like a wave upon the mandarin painted surface of an acre of Cortaderia selloana, just minutes ago enfolded within the quilt of a shivering Argentina night. A whisper of a Pampas deer as it awakes to the brushing cuddle of a mellow affection. It wriggles its wrinkled nose, and looks up. As the first light of daybreak spreads a