Those wondering why the striker’s name wasn’t in the 18 to face Villa in the FA Cup last weekend needn’t have worried.
His mind was very much elsewhere – at the birth of his first child with long-term partner Kate, a baby girl named Ivy Jane Kane.
For a young man, 23, who has already seen just about everything in his football career – from breaking through our Academy, ups and downs in loan spells and proving early doubters wrong to a goal on his England debut, breaking the 30-goal barrier in his first full season right through to winning the Premier League’s Golden Boot last term – this life experience was something else.