Years before the midfielder made the grade at Anfield, he regularly took a place on the Kop to be inspired by the pass and move football preached and produced by the Reds at their best.
Gerrard’s subsequent arrival into the first team in 1998 came too late for the Scouser to team up with many of the men he cheered on from the stands – at least until now.
John Aldridge and Ian Rush, for example, two of the club’s finest exponents of the goalscoring art, will roll back the years to represent Liverpool once again when the Legends face Real on Saturday March 25.