Steven George Gerrard MBE (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player who manages Scottish Premiership club Rangers.
He spent the majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool, with most of that time spent as club captain, as well as captaining the England national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time,
Gerrard was awarded the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award in 2005, and the Ballon d'Or Bronze Award. In 2009, Zinedine Zidane and Pelé said that they considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world.
Celtic blew chance to monopolise Premiership and leave Rangers with 'impossible' task claims finance expert
dailyrecord.co.ukFootball finance expert Kieran Maguire believes Celtic blew a chance to secure a stranglehold on Scottish football by failing to take full of advantage of Rangers’ time in the lower leagues.
Maguire reckons the Parkhead side should have done more to put a bigger gap between the and their rivals which would have made the Ibrox side’s historic league title win under Steven Gerrard impossible.
The Light Blues were sent to the bottom tier of Scottish football following their financial implosion in 2012 but worked their way back through the leagues and claimed the title in time to stop Celtic’s historic bid for a 10th consecutive title.
Rangers also managed a Scottish Cup semi-final win over Celtic four years after embarking on their journey back from the bottom.
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