Curtis Jones was handed the armband by Jurgen Klopp for our Carabao Cup tie against Leicester City and he immediately ensured that he made his mark on the team, before the game even kicked off.
As ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ rang out around Anfield, the Scouser beckoned his teammates towards him and initiated a huddle in the middle of his own half.
This is not something that we saw Jordan Henderson, Virgil van Dijk, James Milner or Trent Alexander-Arnold do before and it’s a great insight into how seriously the 22-year-old took his role.
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Let’s hope he has plenty more opportunities to be our skipper in the future and that he can go on to be a long-serving member of his team.
You can watch the footage of the huddle (from 3:00) courtesy of LFC TV GO (or via @vana1271614 on X):
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Know what he should do, bugger off somewhere else.