Moises Caicedo must never have envisaged gracing the same pitch as Manchester United in a rugby league heartland where the nearby 'landmark' is The Whistling Wren pub.
In March 2021, the Ecuador international was bustling around a sunny Leigh Sports Village with the turnstiles locked during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was, like most pandemic-era contests, soulless and ended goalless.
The only thing worth writing home about was Caicedo in what was only his second start for the Brighton Under-23s. He bossed the midfield two months after he was poised to move to Manchester.
