Jones honoured to lead Liverpool at age of 19 but still played his own game

Curtis Jones took the responsibility of being named Liverpool’s youngest captain seriously but did not allow realising a boyhood dream to restrict his natural instincts.

The Toxteth-born teenager was handed the armband for Tuesday’s FA Cup fourth-round replay win over Shrewsbury just five days after celebrating his 19th birthday.

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