Football is a science says Steven Gerrard

730AM GMT 10 March 2010

"Football is a science" says Steven Gerrard Photo REUTERS

The Liverpool captain toured the new �25.5m centre for healthy science, psychology and sports scholarship at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU).

Gerrard, an Honorary Fellow of the university, pronounced ""This is a illusory trickery that will serve raise Liverpool"s repute as a city of sporting and educational excellence, and I"m gay to be here currently to assistance the university applaud the opening.

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""Thanks to the university construction the UK"s initial Sports Science degree, football and alternative sports are no longer seen as usually a diversion but as a science.""

Named after the UK"s initial Professor of Sports Science, the Tom Reilly Building houses world-class equipment, together with a scanner for measuring physique fat, muscles and bone density, physiology suites with treadmills and bicycles, and machines for monitoring the heart, brain, joints and tissue.

Students at the university can review Science and Football as a bachelor"s degree.

As well as being home to LJMU"s School of Sports and Exercise Sciences, the construction additionally houses the School of Natural Sciences and Psychology.

It contains hi-tech machines for analysing eating disorders, distortion detectors, eye-tracking apparatus and one-way mirrors similar to those used in military line-ups. Its neuroscience labs can break down into parts the becoming different states of the brain.

The centre, that 8,000 students will use, has a pushing simulator that analyses the causes of highway fury and the goods alcohol, and a cover that recreates conditions where oxygen is restricted, such as at high altitudes.

LJMU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Brown, pronounced ""The laboratories and modernized comforts in this new construction will capacitate us to take the Natural Sciences, Psychology and Sport and Exercise Sciences investigate in new and sparkling directions.

""In sequence to have "fit for purpose" graduates you need "fit for purpose" buildings, where students can benefit both a consummate education of their selected educational fortify and secure critical work-related skills and experience.""

Gerrard, who wore the captain"s armband in England"s last match, combined ""It"s a good payoff to be rising the construction declared in honour of Professor Tom Reilly. Like me, his dual good passions in hold up were football and family.

""I"ve been told he was essentially an Everton believer but he desired the diversion as a total and I"ve been positive that he would have been happy for me to strictly launch the new facility.""