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.
Steven Gerrard gets the Celtic calculator out as Rangers boss debunks weakened team claim
dailyrecord.co.ukSteven Gerrard insists his Rangers side dominated a top dollar Celtic side as he points to £17million worth of talent his men kept at bay.
The visitors took a 2-0 win in the first Old Firm meeting of the season, with the hosts failing to muster a shot on target. Coronavirus tests meant Ryan Christie, Odsonne Edouard and Israeli pair Hatem Elhamed and Nir Bitton weren't even in the Celtic squad.
But Gerrard shrugged off talk that his side had beaten a diminished outfit: "I don’t think you ever expect it to be straightforward when you come here.
Celtic threw everything at us today. "You talk about people being missing, but we had Kemar Roofe sitting in the house and we couldn’t start Joe Aribo today. "We have got our own issues ourselves.
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