ANY decent person on their first day at a new place of work would be horrified to have to put up with the level of bigotry that Steven Gerrard’s ears were subjected to yesterday at the front door at Ibrox.
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— William (@_w_scott1) May 4, 2018
When the story broke that Rangers were interested in appointing the Liverpool Under 18s coach as the successor to Pedro, one of our contributors sent over a piece about Gerrard talking up his own personal Celtic credentials.
Any Celtic supporter hearing what Gerrard heard yesterday would have reckoned that they were in the wrong movie – ending up in a Zombie one. Here’s the story again.
Andy Lynch, ex-Celtic Captain speaking at the launch of his book, ‘Hoops, Stars and Stripes’ in late 2016 recalled his memories of meeting Gerrard and this is what he said…
“The decisive factor could be that he is a real Celtic man. That took me by surprise when I met him at half-time during a Liverpool game at Stoke. I had travelled up from London with the club owners, Hicks and Gillett, to be guests of Liverpool. Gerrard wasn’t playing so at half-time he was introduced to me.
“It was him who brought up the subject of Celtic and you could see he was pretty excited talking about it. He said ‘that’s my team, that’s who I support.’
“Obviously, I’m sure he’s got a great love for Liverpool and I’m not saying Celtic would have been a greater love. But he was very adamant about his passion for Celtic and said whenever he gets opportunities he would come up and see them because that was his team when he was younger.
“Then he told me he has a Celtic strip framed at home and it has Lynch on the back of it.
“So I’m racking my brains thinking I have played in a few testimonials against Liverpool but it was before his time – and then it dawned on me.
“I said to him ‘that’s my son’s shirt’. When Simon was at Celtic he played in Ronnie Moran’s testimonial at Anfield. I don’t know where Simon’s put Gerrard’s shirt but the fact we know where that Celtic jersey is says a lot.”
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