Timing is one of Jonny Evans’s great assets and maybe his new son has inherited the knack. How’s this for an arrival? At 5pm last Tuesday, Evans returned from training and his wife Helen’s contractions started. At 6.20pm they reached Wythenshawe Hospital. By 6.21pm baby Eli was born — in the front seat of their car.

Eli was due to arrive this weekend and perhaps it is best Evans tells the rest of the story. “With both our daughters, Helen went into labour on her due date so I was very confident the same would happen again. But last Tuesday I got a call. I’d just got home from training and Helen was at gymnastics with the girls. She said she felt she was going