Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard has received a glowing tribute from a current Premier League captain in an age-old debate.
The Huyton-born midfielder's playing career at Anfield ended in 2015 when he left for LA Galaxy, having scored 186 goals in 710 games for the Reds after progressing through the club's Academy and skippering the side to a number of honours including most memorably the Champions League in 2005.
Now managing Rangers in the Scottish Premier League, Gerrard's name often still crops up during discussions over who the Premier League's finest midfielder has been.
Manchester United's Paul Scholes and Chelsea's Frank Lampard are the two names who most often are thrown into the mix but the former Liverpool skipper has received the nod from a slightly-surprising source.
With football suspended at present due to the coronavirus epidemic, many club Twitter accounts are getting creative when it comes to keeping their audience entertained with Question and Answer debates always proving popular.
West Ham United ran one on Wednesday evening with club captain and "Mr West Ham", Mark Noble, who has been with the club since he was a youngster and became the youngest player ever to appear in their reserve team, aged 15, now having racked up over 400 appearances for the club.
Asked who he thought was the best out of Scholes, Gerrard or Lampard, Noble replied: "Trust me when I say you only realise how good a player is when you play against them.
"All 3 were top top players in their own right but all round player.. Stevie G was the complete footballer".
Noble actually went even further as well, as in response to a question from the official Premier League Twitter account as to who were the best players he played alongside and against, the Hammers skipper replied simply for the latter: "Gerrard".
Some fans may have been expecting Noble to plump for Lampard given his West Ham connections but the 32-year-old, who earlier this season became the fourth highest scorer of penalties in the Premier League era behind Alan Shearer, Lampard and Gerrard, would not be swayed.
