Steven Gerrard: Title-ending slip against Chelsea still kills me

The club's former captain will join LA Galaxy during the close season after a 17-year spell at Anfield when he lifted the Champions League, UEFA Cup, two FA Cups and three League Cups.

But he continues to lament the slip in a 2-0 defeat to Chelsea in April 2014 that allowed Demba Ba to score the visiting side's opening goal as his dream of captaining Liverpool to their first title since 1990 more or less died.

Manchester City won their final four Premier League matches of the season as Liverpool agonisingly finished two points behind Manuel Pellegrini's side in second place.

"The slip happened at a bad time, it was cruel for me personally," said Gerrard.

"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about if that hadn't happened. Would things have been different? Would it have turned out different? Maybe, I don't know.

"You've got to be thick-skinned and take a bit of criticism along the way. I'm not scared of any criticism or cruelty.

"I understand it and the impact it had it kills me, don't get me wrong. Inside it kills me and it will do for a long time.

"I think to myself 'If I'd have got that league, it would have been the icing on the cake'.

"But what helps me with it is that I've got the cake. I've achieved a lot of dreams with a team that has never been the favourite.

"I've got memories - good memories - that will live with me forever but that one moment will always hurt me until the day I go because if I'd have got that moment, I'd have achieved every dream with Liverpool."