Woods’ love of Liverpool is partly thanks to his father Dale, a former steward at Anfield, while brother Connor, 26, was once part of Liverpool’s academy and now plays for Warrington Town in the National League North.

Saturday will not be the first time Woods, who grew up in Skelmersdale in west Lancashire, has stepped onto the Liverpool pitch.

He remembers the time he was chased off the Anfield pitch after watching his brother play in an academy game.

“I was only five, I jumped over the wall and kept running,” he laughs. “I was just running around in circles. My parents yelled at me to get out.”

Around the same time, he was photographed with the Champions League trophy shortly after Rafael Benitez’s Liverpool defeated AC Milan in a dramatic final in 2005.

Woods also remembers meeting Ian Rush, Liverpool’s record goalscorer with 346 goals, when he was growing up.

“I was in Liverpool with my mother and took a photo with him,” he says.

Rush’s name appeared in an iconic 1980s television advert for Milk, which featured two young Liverpool fans.

One tells the other that Rush told him that if he didn’t drink milk he would only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley, who were playing in the Northern Premier League at the time the advert was first broadcast.

The other fan asks: “Accrington Stanley, who are you?”, to which the first fan replies: “Exactly.”

“Yeah, I saw it,” Woods says of the ad. “It’s funny because every time I mention to anyone that I play for Accrington Stanley this advert comes up.”