There is a nice video of Steven Gerrard before the good times became the bad times. It’s surprisingly recent — it was shot a little over four months ago. His side, Al Ettifaq, were joint top of the Saudi Pro League after winning his first couple of fixtures and the scene could have been any dressing room in football.
Players we mostly wouldn’t recognise were singing, dancing, banging on tables and in walked their famous manager, beaming a grin but offering a few words of caution. ‘Only two games,’ Gerrard told them, not that they stopped what they were doing.