Steven Gerrard wouldnt even be a legend at AC Milan, Milan have legends liverpool could never attract and players like gullit, rijkaard, pirlo, ronaldinho, seedorf.... They're all Miles clear of gerrard and most english talents. Thats what you wont be able to read in Shorts by americans who dont know anything about the game yet.
Nothing happened to him. The whole crew was not allowed to ref any further World Cup games. He went back to Uruguay and retired from officiating the following year. As a side note, it was because of this incident that they started using goal line technology to see if a goal was scored.
He was headed to Chelsea to play under Scholari, when he realised he was in Manchester, he thought he joined Manchester United as he didn't know of Manchester City's existence. Read his interviews from 2017.
