Former Liverpool forward El-Hadji Diouf has accused Steven Gerrard and his one-time club of racial prejudice following the Reds legend's criticism of him in his new book.
In a recent extract from Gerrard's upcoming autobiography, My Story, serialised in the Daily Mail, the former Liverpool skipper named Diouf the Reds signing he "liked least" and accused him of having "no real interest in football" and not caring about Liverpool.
Diouf, 34, has responded with a significant attack on the LA Galaxy star and also accused Liverpool of being a hostile environment for non-English black players following Mario Balotelli's troubled time at the club, per Senegal’s Radio Futur Media (h/t the Sun's Tom Gardiner):
Everybody could see how [Gerrard] made life difficult for Mario Balotelli at Liverpool.