Richard Keys has a conspiracy theory about Steven Gerrard’s Liverpool exit

Richard Keys has come up with a rather half-baked conspiracy theory about Steven Gerrard’s red card yesterday.

Writing in his ‘Your Keys to Sports‘ blog, Keys says he picked up on Gerrard’s ‘I don’t want to say anything else right now’ comment in his post-match interview (video above).

To be fair, that remark from Gerrard was a bit enigmatic, and was left open to interpretation:

Did he mean that Ander Herrera was really to blame for the way he flew into the initial tackle?

Or was there something more suspicious afoot in Gerrard’s remark?

Keysey believes the latter, and that Gerrard was referring to his impending departure from the club at the end of the season.

He says he doesn’t blame Gerrard for getting sent off like that, and that it’s really all Rodgers fault for plotting to get Gerrard out of the club.

He finishes off with an emphatic, epic and ambiguous: ‘Rodgers won the war, but he lost the battle.’

There may well be more than meets the eye to Gerrard’s transfer to LA Galaxy, but how would that excuse Gerrard for stamping on Herrera?

A pretty tenuous link from Keys, to say the least:

‘…But there was something else that slipped through in the post match i/view that struck a chord with me – ‘I don’t want to say anything else right now’, he added, after bravely facing the cameras and taking full responsibility for a moment of madness.

What is it that Gerrard wants to say? I’ll tell you what I think it is. He’s steaming mad at the scandalous way he’s been treated by specifically Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool in general.

Rodgers has won his war with Gerrard. The skipper is out of the club at the end of the season. And make no mistake, despite Rodgers’ efforts to blame ‘time’ for Gerrard’s decision to leave HE is to blame. He’s won the war, but he lost Sunday’s battle. And it could yet be a very costly battle to have lost.

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