There was much amusement in the Melwood media room on Monday when the subject of who would captain Liverpool’s kids arose.
Pedro Chirivella – the oldest and most experienced member of this boys’ brigade – seemed the natural choice, given he had fulfilled the role in the Carabao Cup quarter-final at Aston Villa when the senior team were 4000 miles away in Qatar. The other candidate was Curtis Jones.
‘It’s a toss of the coin, really,’ Neil Crithley, Liverpool’s Under-23 head coach observed with a telling smile. ‘But if Curtis gives me the coin, you can be sure it will be a double-headed one!