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.
Is this the biggest gap between Celtic and Rangers and the rest of Premiership EVER?
dailyrecord.co.ukIt’s just over three years since Brian Rice said the gap between the Old Firm and the rest of the top flight was as big as he’d seen in 40 years in football.
The then Hamilton Accies boss had watched his side thumped 5-0 by Rangers at Ibrox and was licking his wounds when he said: “Celtic and Rangers are on a different planet to anyone else in this division.
The gap for me, between Celtic, Rangers and the rest, is as big as I’ve ever seen in my 40-odd years in Scottish football.” Little more than one year on from that mauling in October 2019 his point was underlined when the Lanarkshire side were on the receiving end of an 8-0 hammering by Steven Gerrard’s Light Blues on their return to Govan.
Rangers went on to romp the title that season by 25 points from Celtic. But Hibs were ‘just’ 14 points behind in third.The question is now coming up yet again over the size of the gap between the top two and the rest.
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