{"id":745366,"date":"2026-07-05T22:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/745366\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T22:44:15","slug":"i-feel-honoured-steven-gerrard-reacts-to-being-crowned-liverpools-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/745366\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I feel honoured’ – Steven Gerrard reacts to being crowned Liverpool’s Greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was revealed on Sunday evening that the legendary former captain earned top spot in the ranking<\/a>, which was determined by a player’s ability, impact, legacy and success during their time at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Around 1.4 million votes were collected from supporters, ex-Reds, journalists and a club panel, along with the crunching of 134 years’ worth of statistics, resulting in Gerrard taking first place.<\/p>\n

“I feel very flattered and honoured,” the Scouser told Liverpoolfc.com. “I think people have maybe recency bias, is it called, where I’ve played in the recent generations, if you like. <\/p>\n

“But there’ve been some incredible players before me and after me, so [I’m] extremely flattered and humble. Thank you.”<\/p>\n

Gerrard added: “We’ve had unbelievable players, teams. I think sometimes, and I do it more now since I’ve retired, you sit back and realise who you’ve played for, how lucky we are to be part of this club and family and stuff.<\/p>\n

“I appreciate it even more now than when I played.<\/p>\n

“I mean, wow\u2026 I didn’t expect that, by the way. I didn’t expect that.”<\/p>\n

A boyhood Liverpool fan, Gerrard rose through the club’s youth system to enjoy a 17-year career in the senior team.<\/p>\n

He is one of just three players to reach 700 appearances for the Reds and currently occupies sixth spot on the all-time scorers list with 186 goals.<\/p>\n

His world-class talent helped the Liverpool teams he played in lift eight major honours, with the standout, of course, being the Champions League in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was revealed on Sunday evening that the legendary former captain earned top spot in the ranking, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":["post-745366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}