EXCITED youngsters fired questions at Liverpool FC captain Steven Gerrard yesterday as he visited a Liverpool charity to talk about healthy eating.

The star midfielder visited KIND, a charity for disadvantaged youngsters, at its base on Back Canning Street, to talk to a group of children about lifestyle and how to stay healthy.

He signed the children’s shirts, answered their questions, and offered advice to aspiring football stars.

Most of the children were more interested in his millionaire life-style than his health, and questions about fruit and veg soon turned to how much he earned in a week, whether his wife Alex could cook and if a black Bentley parked outside was his.

When asked how he would have responded to somebody telling him what to eat when he was a child, Gerrard said: “It would depend who it was. If it was my mum and dad, I would probably argue; if it was John Barnes or Gazza, one of my heroes, I would follow because that was who I wanted to be, and that is the point of my visit really.

“A healthy lifestyle is part and parcel of being a sportsman and I have to have a good diet.”

The visit was arranged as part of an initiative by the Premier League to involve clubs in their local communities.

One Liverpool fan, 11-year-old Joseph Adebetun, from Toxteth, could not believe he was meeting his idol.

He said: “Gerrard is the best player in the world, I can’t believe I have met him. I would love to play for a big club one day, he has given us all lots of advice.”

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