Born in the Liverpool suburb of Huyton in 1980, Steven Gerrard joined Liverpool FC as a YTS trainee and played his first first team game aged just 18. He has gone from strength to strength ever since and is now the team captain and its inspiration. Anyone who saw Liverpool s incredible comeback in the Champions League final in Istanbul in May 2005, when they recovered from a 3-goal deficit against AC Milan to win on penalties, will have seen the amazing power Gerrard has over his team. Now he tells his incredible, inspirational story for the first time if he s not already your hero, he will be soon. This is the first time Steven has really let his guard down in public. A relatively private and retiring figure, he s not known for making controversial statements. But now his legions of fans will be allowed an intimate glimpse of their hero. He speaks for the first time about the will-he-won t-he Chelsea rumours. We get a very vivid description of winning in Istanbul and the aftermath of victory, when he actually took the European Cup to bed with him for the night. He talks for the first time about his cousin who died at Hillsborough. And of course, the book will contain a full bl