With an exquisite chip over Manchester City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, Tom Davies’s life changed.

Not since Wayne Rooney introduced himself to the world against Arsenal in 2002 has a goal – and performance – by an Everton youngster been celebrated so enthusiastically beyond blue boundaries.

Now Davies must adjust to being a young man in demand. On this occasion, he is meeting reporters at the Everton Free School opposite Goodison Park, where questions from the students are as lively as any from journalists.

“Did Lukaku try to steal that goal from you?” asks one youngster.

“Are you going to move out of your mum and dad’s house now?” is a more cheeky inquiry.