Have a guess where Liverpool’s academy director was while one 18-year-old netted a brace, another made his debut and scored and a 16-year-old came off the bench for the first team. No, Alex Inglethorpe was not at Anfield soaking up another famous night for the Kindergarten Kop.
The 52-year-old was, of course, at the club’s holistic training base watching the schoolboys train before attending a U15s match in the sort of sideways rain you only see in the north west of England. Not one to revel in the plaudits, Inglethorpe already has an eye on the next crop.