In front of up to 90,000 fans at Wembley and millions more viewers on ITV and ESPN, the eight-year-old Victoria College Prep pupil will be walking out onto the pitch with Steven Gerrard and co, who face Chelsea at Wembley Stadium at 5.15 pm.

Earlier this week, Blake had a ‘magic eye’ fitted at a London hospital because he suffered from a very rare kind of childhood cancer called retinoblastoma.

Blake has his little sister, Lily (7), to thank for his big day – her name was randomly picked from all the young members of the Liverpool FC Supporters Club to lead the team out, but she said that because her big brother had had a tough few months, she wanted him to be the mascot.

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