ENGLAND ace Joe Gomez has proposed to his girlfriend, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.

The Liverpool defender, 21, splashed out on a huge diamond ring for his childhood sweetheart Tamara Tia, who he started dating four years ago.

2Footie ace Joe Gomez has been dating Tamara for four years

The Premier League star previously told how he wooed Tamara, 22, over Blackberry Messenger while on the Number 75 bus as the pair were travelling to and from school in Catford, South London.

And he has credited the Kingston University business management graduate with helping him make it at Anfield after he was signed by Brendan Rodgers from Charlton Athletic in 2015.

Posting an image of her sparkler on Instagram, Tamara gushed: “27.12.18…

A day I’ll remember for the rest of my life. The love of my life asked me to marry him…

2Joe Gomez was out for 16 months with a  cruciate ligament injuryCredit: Reuters

“There aren’t enough words to describe the feeling I right now. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you.”

Earlier this year Joe told how Tamara had helped him battle loneliness when he moved to Merseyside aged 18 and into a one-bedroom flat.

He said: We just packed my car and drove up,’ he recalled. ‘Tamara stayed the first night but was at university in London. She would come up every weekend but, that apart, I was by myself.

‘It is a lot to cope with. I had no exposure to it. I couldn’t cook. I could put a pizza from Iceland in the oven but that was it.”

He also told how she helped him through a 16-month period when he was out with a cruciate ligament injury.

“The main thing was Tamara”, he said. “In the week I would be down and would look forward to her coming up.”