Steven Gerrard, Brendan Rodgers, Jordan Henderson and Rickie Lambert took time out from touring Alder Hey's wards to explain why visiting the children's hospital is so important to Liverpool FC.

The quartet joined the Reds' squad and staff as they made the short journey from Melwood to the hospital in West Derby on Thursday, where they met some of the young patients who are currently being cared for there.

Interviews with Gerrard, Rodgers, Henderson and Lambert are embedded below and you can watch what they had to say on a poignant yet uplifting afternoon for free by clicking play on the clips.

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