Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard told a court he would plead not guilty to assaulting a man in a bar brawl in December. The Liverpool captain was arrested in the early hours of Dec. 29 after police were called to the Lounge Bar nightclub in Southport, north of Liverpool. Company director Marcus McGee, 34, required hospital treatment after receiving facial injuries in the incident. Picture shows Gerrard (second left) leaving the North Sefton Magistrates court in Southport yesterday.