NO BRATS ALLOWED

Robbo reveals secret of kids' success

ANDY has ROBERTSON revealed the key to Liverpool's Class of '24 walking tall at Wembley - they aren't allowed to get too big for their boots in the Boot Room.

Where academy graduates at other clubs develop a swagger beyond their years, the Kop Kids have remained humble and grounded.

And as Robertson celebrated a seventh major trophy in his Anfield career, the Scotland captain paid tribute to the youngsters who brought home the Carabao Cup and said: "It wasn't a risk playing them - we had no choice." At Sunday's team meal before Virgil van Dijk's 118th-minute goal humbled Chelsea, Robertson looked around the table and realised a platoon of Liverpool's big guns was absent.

Somehow the Reds stood firm with teenagers James McConnell (19), Bobby Clark (19) (inset) and Jayden Danns (18) taking the chequered flag. Liverpool legend Alan Hansen.

famously said, "You can't win anything with kids", but Jurgen Klopp's remarkable Liver bird chicks - eight of his match-day squad came through academy director Alex Inglethorpe's Kop kindergarten - have proved the former pundit wrong.