For several minutes after the Manchester United players had left the Old Trafford pitch on Tuesday the TV cameras lingered on the youngster who had landed the ultimate souvenir from his night out: Paul Pogba’s match-worn shirt.
As the stadium emptied around him, the boy beamed in disbelief and looked at the red shirt in his hands with incredulity. You could have turned the Old Trafford floodlights off at that moment and the smile would still have illuminated the pitch.
You could hardly blame the family for lingering inside Old Trafford when the alternative might have been joining the masses trying to navigate the Metrolink chaos, but this was also the final memory of what was clearly going to be an unforgettable night.
