El-Hadji Diouf: Common Knowledge Liverpool & Steven Gerrard Don’t Like Blacks

El-Hadji Diouf has slammed Steven Gerrard and Liverpool, accusing them of being racist against foreign black players.

The former Anfield star has been criticised in Gerrard’s new book ‘My Story’ – which is being serialised by dailymail.co.uk – with the ex-Kop captain revealing Diouf was the team-mate he disliked most.

He also insisted the Senegalese star spitting on a Celtic fan in 2003 summed him up as a player and person.

But Diouf has hit back at Gerrard in sensational style – and made a ludicrous suggestion that both the Anfield legend and the club are racist.

Speaking to Senegal’s Radio Futur Media, Diouf – who now stars for Malaysian club Sabah – said:

Liverpool is not a club that welcomes black players, unless they are English – but if they are not they don’t stand a chance. It is common knowledge that Gerrard has never liked blacks. When I was at Liverpool I showed him that I was black, I wasn’t English, and I wasn’t going to take any nonsense. He never dared look me in the eye all the time I was at the club.

Diouf played for two seasons alongside Gerrard at Liverpool, but failed to live up to his £10million price tag before being sold to Bolton in 2005.

He’s also accused Gerrard of being jealous and, unlike him, is hated anywhere outside of Liverpool.

Diouf said:

Gerrard is just jealous of me. He hasn’t achieved what I have done in football. The greatest experts in the game have declared me one of the seven best players at a World Cup, and among the 100 best players of the century. There are lots of great players who are not on these lists. Everywhere I go away from my homeland people worship me – while Gerrard will get abuse whenever he leaves his home city of Liverpool. He got England knocked out of the last World Cup, and it is his fault that Liverpool did not win the Premier League [in 2014]. Everybody could see how he made life difficult for Mario Balotelli at Liverpool. I warned him beforehand.

Utterly bizarre from Diouf.