Bukayo Saka | In my own words

When I was at Hale End, I just remember always seeing a picture of Jack Wilshere on the walls when I walked in every single day.

I noticed it and would tell myself that it's possible to get into the first team, that there's a pathway. Since then, everything's happened so quickly. I came up to Colney last year and then all of a sudden I was playing against Manchester United in the Premier League.

That game in September, man... I was standing on the pitch at Old Trafford before the match – it was just my second-ever start in the Premier League – and it finally hit me: I'm in the Arsenal first team.

I had been here 10 years earlier with my dad, sitting in the away end with the Newcastle fans. My…