Steven Gerrard, Emlyn Hughes, Alan Hansen, Ron Yates and...Simon Mignolet!

What do these five players have in common?

Well before today their only connection to each other was putting on the Liverpool shirt, but now they are all Reds captains.

Yes, you read that right! Simon Mignolet will lead the famous Merseyside out for their side with West Ham on Saturday evening.

The Belgian keeper becomes the leader as Jordan Henderson was ruled out with a thigh injury, while second choice James Milner was only placed on the bench by Jurgen Klopp.
Mignolet wasn't a popular choice for captain (
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Mignolet has been in poor form and conceded four at Wembley (
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And as you can imagine social media, especially Liverpool fans, were a mixture of miffed and furious by the decision.

Here is the best of the reactions on Twitter...