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.
Micky Mellon predicts 'greedy' Rangers will get a reaction from Celtic as he raves about Steven Gerrard
dailyrecord.co.ukPremiership success despite going down to his Tranmere side. The former Dundee United boss inflicted a 1-0 defeat to the Light Blues in a low-key friendly at Prenton Park which saw Steven Gerrard field two entirely different teams at the start of both halves.
New signing John Lundstram made his first start since arriving from Sheffield United and Ryan Kent was also involved after injury in a game which saw the majority of the first team given a run-out.
But Mellon saw enough to believe the Ibrox side will be a stronger force as well as having a renewed appetite to defend their league trophy.
He said: “ Rangers will be a force again. They will drive on again and I’m sure it will be a keenly fought battle between the big two again.
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