Wayde van Niekerk may have competed at the highest level possible as an athlete, but even he found James Milner’s late penalty too hard to watch as Liverpool beat Leicester City 2-1 on Saturday.
The Olympic gold medallist and men's 400m world-record holder was at Anfield for the second time to take in a Premier League clash – and as a lifelong Red, felt the jitters as the vice-captain stepped up to convert the crucial stoppage-time spot-kick.
“I couldn’t look, so I recorded it on my phone and I looked at it afterwards,” Van Niekerk told Liverpoolfc.