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.
Neil Francis Lennon (born 25 June 1971) is a Northern Irish football coach and former player who is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic. During his playing career he represented English clubs Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra and Leicester City.
Lennon moved to Scottish club Celtic in 2000, where he made over 200 appearances and was appointed captain in 2005. Before retiring as a player, he returned to England and played for Nottingham Forest and Wycombe Wanderers. Lennon made 40 appearances for Northern Ireland in nine years, scoring two goals. Lennon was appointed manager of Celtic in March 2010, initially in a caretaker capacity after the departure of Tony Mowbray.
Redknapp spoke exclusively to shortly after the shock news of Lampard’s sacking from Chelsea after just 18 months in the hotseat at Stamford Bridge.Bookies immediately installed the former England star as a front runner to take over from Neil Lennon - a prospect which would see Lampard go toe-to-toe with old rival Steven Gerrard in a box office battle for supremacy at the top of Scotland’s Premiership.And Redknapp believes the 42-year-old might find the lure of following Gerrard’s path north might be hard for Lampard to turn down.He said: “That’s certainly something that would interest any manager.
It’s a great football club to come and manage, that’s for sure.“Neil Lennon is still there so I wouldn’t want to talk too much about someone.
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