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.
The John Bennett 'relief' felt by Rangers ally Dave King as he reveals heart to heart chats with outgoing chairman
dailyrecord.co.ukDave King has watched John Bennett pour his heart, his soul and his millions into Rangers.But the former Ibrox chief reckons the outgoing chairman is entirely right to draw a line at throwing his health too into the seemingly endless cavern of doom currently threatening to swallow the club whole.
King knows only too well the strain that comes when trying to rebuild a broken institution. After all he was the man who Mike Ashley tried to have locked up as the Castlemilk-born millionaire set about cutting the club free from the toxic tentacles that had wrapped their way around the Light Blues under its previous regime.All the stress, hard work and toil in the end proved worthwhile as King helped put down the foundations upon which Steven Gerrard built his 2021 title-winning campaign.
King had stepped down from his role 12 months previous to that Invisibles triumph in order to focus on his ensuring his businesses in South Africa survived Covid.
He gave up control assured that with men like Bennett still on board, Rangers were in safe hands.But under King’s predecessor Douglas Park, and then Bennett - who assumed the top job in April last year - all the progress made after King’s 2015 takeover has been squandered and Rangers once again find themselves firmly lodged in Celtic’s shadow.
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