You are 18 years old and learn that you are about to start a game for Liverpool at Anfield – which is expectant and packed to the rafters – for the first time.
In your mind, you will have a few things that you would hope might happen in the early exchanges to help settle your nerves: a good touch to cushion a team-mate’s pass, the first ball you play finding another red shirt; perhaps a generous ovation from The Kop.
For Harvey Elliott, however, it was something much more agricultural and blunt.
Harvey Elliott started Liverpool's Premier League clash against Burnley on Saturday
Barely two minutes were on the clock when Elliott, the teenager with the distinction of being the Premier League youngest player when he played at Fulham, was clattered by Burnley’s Josh Brownhill.