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.
James Tavernier in Rangers 'no excuse' pitch warning as skipper admits concerns over Scottish football image problem
dailyrecord.co.ukJames Tavernier reckons there is no excuse for Scotland’s sub-standard playing surfaces. But the Rangers skipper insists it’s only right those problematic pitches are taken into consideration before judgement is passed on his side’s progress under Michael Beale.The new gaffer likened the McDiarmid Park turf to a cow field after his team registered their ninth game without defeat since his appointment during Saturday's Scottish Cup win over St Johnstone.
And Tavernier was making no attempt to disguise his thoughts either as he claimed shoddy pitches are impacting Scottish football’s reputation abroad.The Ibrox captain said: “You look at Ross County and Motherwell and they’ve always got really good pitches to play on.
County are a club so far north in a small stadium and they still manage to keep the surface really good. There shouldn’t be any excuses.
All the pitches should be grass at the end of the day.“It’s something that needs to be done to improve the Scottish game so it looks better from the outside.
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