El Hadji Diouf is probably sweating bullets as Steven Gerrard lawyers up

Honestly, what did he expect?

In his new autobiography, serialised in the Daily Mail this week, Gerrard said he had no respect for former teammate El Hadji Diouf who “sealed his place at the top of the list of Liverpool signings I liked least”. Diouf then reportedly fired back over Stevie G's comments, being quoted by French paper Le10 Sport, in which he accused the former Liverpool captain of being racist.

“We all saw how he made life difficult for Mario Balotelli at Liverpool. I warned him. Liverpool isn’t a team that accepts black people unless they are English. “It’s common knowledge Gerrard has never liked black people. When I was at Liverpool, I showed him I was black, that I wasn’t English, but that I’m no pushover. All the time I was there, he never dared looked me in the eye.”

He may be regretting those comments now as Gerrard has already sought legal advice over the racism allegations, as Football 365 reports. "The allegations in those statements are completely false and seriously defamatory of our client,” a statement from his lawyers read.