For 3 years he did a decent job as manager of Rangers FC up in the Scottish Premier. But then again apart from Celtic and perhaps Aberdeen and Hibs, that particular league is shite. And its no wonder the likes of Rangers and Celtic constantly become league champions year in year out.
Roughly a year ago Gerrard tried his hand at managing English Premier League club, Aston Villa – a sleeping giant of a club with a great history of winning trophies (albeit from 40 odd years ago) and regarded as one of the biggest clubs in England.
11 months on and Gerrard is sacked after yet another defeat by a rampant Fulham by 3-0, leaving the club hovering over the relegation zone.
When Gerrard came on board 11 months ago the Villa fans applauded him not only for his achievements as a former player of Liverpool and England, but also for his good work at Rangers.
That support soon evaporated after disappointing defeat after disappointing
defeat. And over the last few weeks the fans were calling for him to be sacked.
What is really quite surprising is in the old days former players who wanted to manage top flight clubs would first have to pass all their coaching badges and then start at the bottom managing non-league clubs and build on that success until the big boys wanted you.
However ever since the EPL came into being back in 92 it seems former players can simply bypass all the faffing with badges and managing small clubs. Instead they can manage top clubs based purely on their reputation and celebrity status.
But being a good player and competent manager are two totally different things. It also proves how weak the Scottish Premier League is if Rangers can appoint Gerrard – his first managerial role – and continue to win trophies. And yet he soon got found out in the EPL for being completely out of his depth after less than a year in charge.
And the joke was that some fans and media punters saw him as the next manager of Liverpool after Klopp finally moves on.
Just goes to prove that just because you were a legend as a player doesn’t mean you’ll cut the mustard as a manager of a top club without learning the ropes first.
Nominated by: Technocunt
Steve Heighway? A graduate before he became a footballer. Economics I believe. Not Gay Studies or Colonial History. Different fucking world.
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I think you mean Stevie Coppell, who got an Economics degree. Gary Bailey also had a university degree.
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Is it possible for this halfwit with a widow’s peak, to start a new job managing women to compete in men’s sports ? There shouldn’t be any difficulties in the likes of darts, snooker, chess and tiddlywinks that don’t need any physical effort. But the drawback could be more difficult in understanding what the fuck he was saying.
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Wonder if he will go crawling back to Rangers?
Hope he doesn’t go into punditry. Imagine Stevie Me and ‘Carra’ both on Sky Sports. ‘Eeeerrrr’ ‘ Errr Like’ ‘Di do dough don’t di dough?’ ‘Calm down! Calm Down! ‘Ey! Now Ey!’
The TV studio will be drenched in phlegm….😃
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True story. Frank Lampard and John Terry in the back of a black cab. Terry opens the window and throws his watch worth five grand out of the moving cab.
Lampard asked ‘What did you do that for?’
Terry replied ‘Because I can’.
Cunt. Totally expected, but still a cunt
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“Watch out”. What a thick cunt. Both pea brains should’ve tossed up to choose which one throws the other out of the cab. At least one less numpty.
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Even Harry Twitch had to start at the bottom with Bournemouth.
Cunt still managed to buy a house on Sandbanks back then as manager of a shitty lower league club.
Can only imagine how many brown paper bags were involved in his transfers at that time.
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