Scott McTominay's penchant for goals in big moments has weaved his name into Manchester United folklore several times over, but at one point in his teenage years, it all appeared improbable. He couldn't even kick a ball.
“I would have broke down,” McTominay explains in Lifeblood: Innovation, the second behind-the-scenes film on our world-famous youth set-up.
“It was a tough time – two or three years where I didn’t kick a ball. My groins, when I got to 15, I could not pass a ball sideways because I was in too much pain. I’d go home and say to my dad: ‘What’s happening here?