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.
Scott Arfield wasn’t a spit-the-dummy-out kind of guy. But the Rangers No.2 believes the 32-year-old’s emergence from the first-team fringes to midfield mainstay is an inspirational story that has rubbed off on everyone inside the Ibrox dressing room.
Arfield’s start to the campaign was restricted to five run-outs as a sub in the first six games.But he has started nine of the last 10 and netted his sixth goal of the season in Thursday night’s Europa League draw with Benfica.
McAllister points to his battle back into boss Steven Gerrard ’s plans as a lesson for every Light Blue star on the fringes.
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