Missy Bo Kearns has spent a lifetime following in Liverpool players’ footsteps.
As a childhood fan, the midfielder grew up idolising Steven Gerrard and shared the pitch with one of the Anfield legend’s future homegrown successors in Curtis Jones. Kearns and Jones started out together at junior side Mossley Hill before graduating to become standard bearers for the Reds’ women’s and men’s teams respectively.
She admitted: “To see us both progress – he’s the youngest men’s captain and I’m the youngest women’s captain ever – it’s a proud moment for me. I know all the sacrifices I’ve had to put in, so he’s had to do the same; the late nights training and then going to school when you’re a kid. It’s not easy and to see it pay off, it’s worth every single minute.”
