 Mr Gerrard was celebrating Liverpool's 5-1 win over Newcastle
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Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has told a court he did not lose control on the night he punched a businessman in a bar on Merseyside.
The England player told Liverpool Crown Court he was used to people bothering him and had ways of smoothing over trouble when confronted by people.
Mr Gerrard has admitted punching Marcus McGee in the Lounge Inn, Southport, but said he was defending himself.
The footballer, of Formby, Merseyside, denies affray.
Mr Gerrard was in the Lounge Inn in Southport with friends in the early hours of 29 December last year to celebrate Liverpool's 5-1 win over Newcastle United.
The jury has heard the 29-year-old estimated he was seven out of 10 on a drunkenness scale.
'Lot of mither'
"I certainly knew I had had a drink," Mr Gerrard told the court.
"I was certainly in control of how I felt in my surroundings."
Mr Gerrard's barrister, John Kelsey-Fry QC, said he had been in trouble with the police before - when he was 19 he was banned from driving for nine months for drink-driving.
Mr Gerrard said he had not been in trouble with the police since then, or involved in any other violent incident.
 Mr Gerrard was with a group of friends at the Lounge Inn
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He said he suffered "a lot of mither", not just in bars, but at traffic lights, shopping centres and in restaurants.
"For example, because I am a footballer, sometimes I get supporters coming up to me, be they Liverpool fans or Everton or Manchester United fans, and sometimes the comments can be derogatory or insulting.
"So I try to deal with it in the best way I can.
"I try to talk to them and smooth it over."
John Doran, 29, of Woodlands Road, Ian Gerrard Smith, 19, of Hilary Avenue, and Paul McGrattan, 31, of Linden Drive, all Huyton, have all admitted affray.
Accrington Stanley footballers Robert Grant, 19, of Enstone Avenue, Litherland, and Ian Dunbavin, 28, of Guildford Road, Southport, have also admitted affray.
John McGrattan, 34, of Rimmer Avenue, Huyton, has admitted threatening behaviour after denying affray.
The trial continues.
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