UTD Unscripted: A sense of wonder

I look back on the choices I made, choices that were made for me and around me, and I can’t help but think about what might have been. In some ways I benefited from incredible timing, but it could also be viewed as bad timing.

In terms of impacting on the first team, 10 appearances for Manchester United isn’t a huge amount, but then again I got to live out every kid’s dreams and something I’d fantasised about doing from the moment I got my first United kit as an eight year old.

Once my Dad handed me that kit in a pristine white box, I was a diehard United fan. My first memory of watching football was Mark Hughes scoring from that ridiculous angle in the 1991 Cup Winners’ Cup final against…