The Manchester United Under-12s were playing on their designated pitch at the club's Carrington training base when three young spectators noticed some activity on the adjacent first-team training pitch.
Bruno Fernandes and Christian Eriksen were strolling out to practice free-kicks with the goalkeeping coach Richard Hartis and the kids' eyes were now trained on the dead-ball specialists perfecting their technique rather than their own match.
The football director John Murtough, a spectator for the U12 game, encouraged the lads to stroll over to look and learn. Fernandes spotted the three goggle-eyed schoolboys and beckoned them onto the pitch for an ad-hoc tutorial in ball-striking.
