Now that games are more widely accepted as an effective learning media it will be great to witness what happens next for this ambitious, rising star.
It was a glimpse into a fast-disappearing world where young players like a Götze, or Bale, could gather around them all the hopes and dreams of an ambitious, rising football club.
And Barkley almost made the perfect comeback in the opening minute with an ambitious rising drive from 25 yards that was inches over with Reds keeper Simon Mignolet stretching.
In the BBC4 documentary, the novelist describes being obsessed by class during his teenage years, and being "ambitious to rise up from – you'd have to say – lower middle class origins".
"But I went to a number of games early in the season within the new Scottish Lowland Football League, where we have an opportunity for teams who are ambitious to rise up the ranks and, from the end of next season, enter the Football League.
It nearly matched a hugely ambitious estimate, rising to £10.68 million.
Hard working, intelligent and ambitious, he rose steadily as a Reuther protege and potential successor through the 1940's, 50's and 60's.
Hackney council's planning department is quick to hand out permission to large developers with ambitious high-rise plans, and rumours circulate among planning consultants and architects about the supposed revolving door between jobs in planning and developers' offices.
As is now happening in Hackney, this often means giving carte blanche to developers and a laissez-faire attitude to applications, which leads to tech startups being evicted from their inexpensive, urban-chic offices to make way for more ambitious high-rise projects.
For weeks there's been speculation that the downfall of Mr Bo, an ambitious and rising Politburo member, might lead to the fall of an even more powerful figure, China's security chief, Zhou Yongkang.
