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 missing the chance to be bigger than Rangers is just the latest misstep in a season of unfortunate events - Chris Sutton
dailyrecord.co.ukCeltic should have been the bigger club – by giving their old rivals a guard of honour at Parkhead.Steven Gerrard’s side are coming as champions and they deserve to be shown respect.
The Celtic squad don’t have to like it but by choosing not to do one is poor form in a poor season.There should have been the guard of honour – and it should have stuck in their throats for the whole 15 seconds it would have taken.That kind of hurt would have been the motivation needed for the game, for the rest of this season and for getting back in to the fight next term.It would also be the right thing to do.
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