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FA Cup 5th Round: Doncaster v Crystal P Herbie happy to mis

TAKE it as read. Doncaster Rovers loan star Herbie Kane is a midfielder with a great future.

Just ask Steven Gerrard, who was his boss at the Liverpool Academy and waxed lyrically about him in his autobiography.

Gerrard name-checked Kane, now 20, as a young player with a successful career ahead of him. And the youngster, who pretended to be Gerrard when playing football in the back garden as a small kid, is ready, willing and able to live up to his hero’s high expectations.

Kane will hopefully get to prove Gerrard’s point when he plays for adopted club Rovers against Crystal Palace in the FA Cup fifth round today. Recalling the Gerrard name-check, he said: “I was pleased and quite shocked. I went out and got the book myself. “My nan also bought the book just for that. I was pleased. “Someone speaking about me as great as a player he was, I couldn’t believe it.

“When I was younger, and as a midfielder, he was the kind of person I looked up to. Just because of his goals and the way that he played.

“And I joined Liverpool because I felt good there – when I was little I vividly remember Liverpool playing Luton in the FA Cup.

“It felt more like home and that’s why I went there.

“When Steven Gerrard was the manager of the Under-19s, he would give me advice and tips if I asked.

“He was very approachable and he would help everyone.”

Gerrard was not Kane’s only admirer at Liverpool.

Everyone connected with the club thinks that he has a real