Since March 13 when Scottish football was suspended the ‘fortunes’ of Steven Gerrard’s club has been on an incredible rise.
The previous night a below-par Bayer Leverkusen had eased their way to a 3-1 win at Ibrox, a week after the loyal fans had witnessed a home deat from Hamilton Accies. Inbetween Gerrard had gained some respite thanks to a 1-0 win away to Ross County when Dick Forster scored an own goal.
How funny is this from staunchly giving Gerrard an 8th minute applause, to a 90th minute Booooo.
Long live the banter years. pic.twitter.com/yedxUco91f— JT-? (@1888JT) March 5, 2020
As the fans and apologists grasp away for asterisks, dossiers and conspiracies Gerrard is enjoying his Get Out of Jail Free card back home with his wife and kids in Merseyside.
Since watching his side throw away a lead to lose away to Hearts on January 26 the Liverpool legend has been at the wheel of an incredible title collapse.
While Celtic faced up to their second away trips to Motherwell, Aberdeen and Livingston Gerrard managed to guide his teams to defeats against Hearts, Hamilton and Kilmarnock. Three clubs in the bottom half of the table.
Knowing that you won’t have to select a team before August allows all sorts of myths to emerge about how a 13 point lead against a team that had dropped 10 points over 30 games was about to be clawed back.
The truth is out there, Gerrard’s squad had such a backbone that unused sub Andy Halliday was sent out to face the media after the home defeat from Hamilton. When football finally returns Halliday will probably be sharing his views from the BBC Scotland studio alongside Steven Thompson, Billy Dodds, Neil McCann and Stenhousemuir chief Ian McMenemy.
