Amy, a year-eight pupil at the Manchester Health Academy, and also an aspiring footballer, was tricked into thinking she was helping to answer a football question, but was left stunned to find one of her heroes on the other end of the line.
“My dad was acting a bit suspicious,”
Amy told Jesse, and MUTV’s Mark Sullivan.
“I kept asking him what was going on and then my aunty said there was a football question on my conference call.”
Amy showed up wearing her Lingard no.14 jersey – something her dad had carefully orchestrated.
“I only knew at the last minute that they were doing it, because they were telling me do this and do that.