It wasn't just the Liverpool senior side who limped through the campaign hampered by seemingly relentless injury problems.
Across the way from the AXA Training Centre at Kirkby, the treatment room at the Academy was just as busy as many of the next generation of Reds hopefuls spent as much time on the sidelines as on the pitch.
The season was particularly testing for the under-18s, who used almost 30 different players as youngsters from the U16s were fast-tracked into the upper age group ahead of schedule.
