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Tom Blow

Story behind Steven Gerrard and El Hadji Diouf bitter feud with X-rated rants and 'fight'

Steven Gerrard was reminded of a name heard long ago on Thursday - El Hadji Diouf.

The former Liverpool winger became a World Cup star when Senegal reached the quarter-finals in Japan and South Korea 20 years ago - and he has fanned the flames ahead of England's last-16 clash against the African champions on Sunday with a dig at Gerrard.

"England have a good team and a very good team spirit," said Diouf, who is now part of Senegal's coaching set-up, at a press conference on Thursday. "It’s not like with Stevie G and Frank Lampard, when the two of them didn’t like each other."

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