STEVEN GERRARD hates Charlton boss Les Reed — for making him feel “like s***.” And now the Liverpool skipper wants to flush Reed closer to the Championship with a victory at The Valley tomorrow.
Gerrard, 26, will never forgive Reed for the way he treated him when he was an England coach under Kevin Keegan at Euro 2000. Manchester City coach Derek Fazackerley is also blamed by Gerrard for his Euro misery.
The Kop king said: “To this day, I have no respect for Reed. I was a young lad who had never been away from home to play football before. The amazing attack comes from his best-selling book, Gerrard: My Autobiography.
Under-fire Reed, who has won just once in five games since taking over at Charlton, appeared to be unaware of GerrardÂ’s true feelings towards him yesterday.
He said: “Steven Gerrard came into the senior England squad for the first time when I was working with Kevin Keegan. “I’ve got his framed Euro 2000 shirt hanging on my wall saying ‘Best wishes, Steven Gerrard’ so I have come across him.
“I think he’s such a dedicated player, he loves playing for Liverpool and he loves playing for England. He’ll do whatever the coach asks him to do. “I personally think that in terms of England he’d be a fantastic driving force in the middle of the pitch. He’s got talent but he’s obviously got that extra mentality that’s going to take that talent somewhere and that’s proved to be the case with Steven.”
