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Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has hailed the sensational impact of youngster Adrian Peterson JerseyRaheem Sterling, whom AB1024zyh he believes can go "all the way to the top".The 17-year-old became the Reds' second-youngest scorer in the Premier League after Michael Owen with the only goal - his first senior one for the club - in Saturday's 1-0 victory over Reading."I think he has been a great surprise to everyone; not that he is doing so well at this level but I don't think anyone expected him to break through so early," the 32-year-old said.
I think we all knew he was going to be good enough to play for the first team but Jared Allen Jerseywhen they are young and small and that size sometimes you need to take a little bit extra care."They get used towards the end of the season to give them a taste but the manager has come in, seen what he has done in pre-season and said he is ready now. He hasn't let anyone down and he's been sensational so far."Sterling, who joined Liverpool as a 15-year-old from QPR, is still so young the club are shielding him from media interviews, at least until his 18th birthday in December.
So the youngster expressed his thoughts about his first senior Liverpool Christian Ponder Jerseygoal on Twitter, saying: "Great day for me and my family to score for such a big club. One of the happiest days of my life."Had his team-mates been sharper up front a first home league win of season would have been put beyond doubt long before the end."The frustration was in not killing the game off really," added Gerrard. "We haven't had a win at Anfield for such a long time we got a bit nervous and edgy, but the only thing we deserved was the three points.
A caller to the BBC's 606 phone-in programme on Saturday evening provided Percy Harvin Jerseyevidence of the casual racism of an Aston Villa supporter towards the club's Belgian forward Christian Benteke, who is of Congolese extraction, at Craven Cottage that afternoon. The caller related how he was standing in a neutral area near the cottage at Fulham's ground when Benteke came on from the bench and a white supporter in his thirties shouted "give the coon the ball and he'll score". The caller, who later told the BBC's producers he had not reported the incident to the Metropolitan Police, said no Villa supporter had challenged the abuse.
"Nobody confronted him," said the caller, Phil, from London. "I didn't confront Matt Kalil Jerseyhim. There were six people with him and I was on my own. He'll know who he is. That's the problem we've got. We can all pay lip service but who will tell fans what [the repercussions] will be?"Though there was support for Roberts' stance from many quarters yesterday, Twitter revealed once again what a vile repository it can be, when the 34-year-old player received more openly racist abuse."We have to build on it, it is as simple as that. This is only a good result if we can get a result in the derby (at Everton) next week."
Newcastle were strong," he said. "They played to their strengths and their News From:vikings2012.comtwo forwards were causing plenty of problems. They were strong."The sending-off allowed us an opportunity to get more poise into our game and to try and stretch them going wide, but we were anxious and we were trying to play a ball that might not have existed instead of taking more care."In the second half sheer pressure alone yielded the goal; it was not flamboyantly brilliant," O'Neill added. "Maybe we had time to win it but in the circumstances, with Newcastle down to 10 men, and having defended so strongly, that would have been harsh.