Liverpool 5-5 Arsenal at Anfield in a League Cup tie, which, unlike so many games in that competition, was not played like something grudgingly squeezed into the fixture list. Nonetheless, Liverpool won the penalty shootout, and it was on their teenagers that the spotlight fell. At 25, he has been part – if not at the forefront of – two Premier League title-winning squads. At 25, Robbie Fowler, that other kid from Toxteth, had won a single League Cup. There are some who have bucked the trend and chief among them is the club whose teenagers lost that astonishing cup tie.