After getting sent off after 38 seconds Steven Gerrard decided to give his Liverpool team-mates a pep talk

No hard feeling from his team-mates

After getting sent off against Manchester United before most people (players included) were even aware he was on the pitch, you'd think the last thing Steven Gerrard's team-mates needed to hear after they slumped off after a valiant defeat with 10-men was a speech from the club captain. But that's what they got. We can only assume that it wasn't delivered with as much gusto as Gerrard's famous on-field battle cry after victory against Manchester City last season. The Telegraph's Henry Winter, who was the ghost writer on Gerrard's autobiography, gives the following account of what took place. Not that any dressing room were letting slip exactly what he said. "That's what he is about," goalkeeper Simon Mignolet said. "He spoke to the team after the game inside the dressing room and what was said exactly shall stay in there, but it shows who and what he is off the pitch." Rumours that he said 'we need to stamp out any indiscipline' are, as yet, unproven. Hat tip to The Telegraph and The Mirror.