Liverpool’s Herbie Kane: ‘In the back garden I used to pretend to be Gerrard’ | Ben Fisher

24 December 2018 05:00
The 20-year-old midfielder has been a revelation on loan at Doncaster and has plans to impress Jürgen Klopp when he returns to Liverpool in the summerGrowing up, Herbie Kane’s hero was Steven Gerrard, so playing under him for Liverpool Under-19s last season was the stuff of dreams. “I had a few shirts with his name on the back and, when I was little, I used to watch some of his goals and want to be able to do what he had done; I used to practise in the back garden, pretending to be Gerrard,” Kane says, breaking into laughter. Related: Celtic sign 15-year-old Karamoko Dembélé to first professional contract I went to Chelsea for a few weeks, had a look at United as well, and Arsenal wanted me to go and play for them Related: Roy Hodgson: Liverpool slip-up in title race is inevitable Related: Liverpool’s Xherdan Shaqiri: ‘Everybody said: thank you, you’re a legend already’ Continue readingreadfullarticle

Source: TheGuardian