It is almost certainly too early to hail 19-year-old Keinan Davis as the boy who can transform Aston Villa.
How big a load do you want to place on the shoulders of a kid who only three years ago was told by Stevenage that he’d never be good enough to play professional football?
But when even Steve Bruce calls the performance of a teenager the club discovered playing for Eastern Counties League side Biggleswade Town ‘as good a debut as I can remember’, maybe there is finally some cause for hope.
John Terry was meant to be the man to revive Villa’s ailing fortunes, but instead it took a youngster’s strength, pace, hold-up play and infectious enthusiasm to set the tone.