Ex-Rangers boss Steven Gerrard defends celebration after debut win with Aston Villa

AT around six o'clock on Saturday evening, Steven Gerrard gathered with his family in a corporate box high in the upper reaches of Villa Park. There were smiles and hugs, and at one point he held a young child in his arms, breaking off from the get-together to survey the old ground with her clinging to him – and to drink in some of the last drops of the celebratory atmosphere that had been uncorked a little more than an hour earlier.

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