#5 That First Kiss
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The 2008-09 Premier League season will forever remain ingrained in the memory of both Liverpool and Manchester United fans. For the Reds, it was another case of so near yet so far while for the Red Devils, it was all about finally drawing level with Liverpool on 18 championship wins. It is thus fitting that there was no match more dramatic in the league than when these two fierce rivals squared up at Old Trafford during the business end of the competition.
Liverpool on that occasion shred Manchester United to pieces, emerging victorious with a 4-1 scoreline. While that result lives on in memory for obvious reasons, the most endearing image from the encounter is sure to be Steven Gerrard’s famous “kissing the camera” celebration in front of the jubilant travelling Liverpool fans following his penalty strike!
The celebration has since become the stuff of legends and was later copied by Wayne Rooney in a future Liverpool-Manchester United clash. Just a little friendly banter for ya! Stevie G himself did it one more time, exactly five years later as Liverpool once again decimated United at Old Trafford, this time emerging 3-0 victors. Now that he’s announced his retirement, how we wish there could have been many more of such Stevie moments!
