Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard is currently the manager of Scottish Premiership powerhouses Rangers.
Steven Gerrard would still walk into Rangers’ midfield despite hang up his boots three years ago, the Liverpool legend’s former Anfield team-mate Danny Murphy has told Jim White on talkSPORT (25 March, 11am).
Gerrard was one of the best midfielders of his generation, a fist-pumping inspirational captain who made a habit of stepping up in the most dramatic of circumstances. He won nine trophies during almost two decades at Liverpool while accumulating 114 caps for the England national team.
And, even at the age of 38, Gerrard showed that he has still got it during an LFC Foundation game between the legends of AC Milan and Liverpool at Anfield. The former Three Lions skipper scored the winner with a trademark strike from distance.
Murphy, who watched the game, believes that Gerrard would still stand out if the Rangers manager decided to give it one last go on the pitch at competitive level.
“He’d walk into that Rangers team and boss it,” Murphy said. “He’s still in his 30s. If he put his boots on against Celtic (in this weekend’s Old Firm derby) it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if they won and he got the winner.”
Gerrard has enjoyed a promising first season in management although his Rangers campaign will end the campaign without a trophy, having lost at home to Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup quarter-final earlier in March.
Gerrard will be dreaming of ending Celtic’s near decade long domination of the domestic game in the next 12 months or so as he aims to prove that legendary footballers can make good managers after all.
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