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.
Celtic’s players to get inside the heads of their Rangers rivals today and leave them with reason to doubt their own title credentials.The Parkhead boss has lavished praise on the runaway league leaders for piling up a 16 point lead at the top of the table - and leaving his own hopes of landing a 10th successive title hanging by a thread.Victory for Steven Gerrard’s side could even cost Lennon his job with the manager’s position set to be reviewed next week by chief executive Peter Lawwell.But a derby win could turn Celtic’s season around and Lennon wants his players have to ask some serious questions of Rangers’ ability to go the distance.He said: “We’ve got to give them doubts.
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