Emotional Gerrard welcomes step down in intensity America will bring

Liverpool’s departing captain Steven Gerrard admits it will be difficult for him to let go of his long association with his boyhood club but he intends to return in some capacity in the future.

The midfielder will leave the Reds, whom he joined at the age of nine, to join the Los Angeles Galaxy in the summer.

After scoring the winner in front of the Kop against QPR last Saturday he revealed emotion may have got the better of him for his missed penalty earlier in the game, but that will be nothing compared to the wrench of making his final appearance at Anfield on May 16 and playing his last match at Stoke the following weekend.