STEVEN GERRARD

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

I think it all goes down to who plays the better football on the night.

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter.

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club.

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.

107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.

It's too easy to blame other people in football.

I might be an ambassador.

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.