Esme Morgan walks onto the turf at the Etihad Stadium and is left in awe as the memories come flooding back. She has stood in this grand arena hundreds of times as a fan but will on Sunday complete her lifelong dream of taking to the field sporting Manchester City blue in the biggest fixture of all.
‘That little three-year-old girl watching her first City game here could never have dreamt of this moment,’ Morgan, the 22-year-old defender, tells Sportsmail ahead of the Manchester derby. ‘I had a look around the stadium the other day and, just standing in the stadium, I felt ready to play then.