Sunday 12th March 2006
ANFIELD ONLINE LFC NEWS

STEVIE TAKES THE BLAME

Steven Gerrard has taken the responsibility for Liverpool leaving empty handed from Highbury after gifting a backpass to Thierry Henry.

"We could have gone away and nicked a draw but I've made a stupid mistake.

"I thought I'd knock it back to the keeper, waste a bit of time, but Henry was hiding behind the centre-backs.

"If there's only one player you don't want to it fall to it's Henry."

But Gerrard felt he wasn't the only one to have made a bad mistake.

Just before Henry's winning goal, referee Steve Bennett showed Xabi Alonso a second yellow card, even though the Spaniard's challenge on Mathieu Flamini appeared to result from an accidental slip.

And Gerrard added: "I think the referee has gone off the crowd's reaction.

"You can see clearly the linesman isn't going to give anything and the referee hasn't even seen the incident."

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