While sweeping the floor of a non-league changing room, the prospect of scoring a perfect hat-trick against the Premier League champions would have felt like the stuff of fantasy for a teenage Ollie Watkins.
But the 24-year-old had never been one for giving up on turning dreams into reality.
Rejected at his first trial with a professional club, Watkins' rise to prominence is as impressive as it was swift, with the youngster having already played in all four leagues in English football before becoming Aston Villa's club-record signing in the Premier League at £28m.
From knock-back to playing left-back
Born in Newton Abbot in Devon, Wakins was one of many hopefuls keen to impress during a trial at one of the clubs local to him - Exeter City - but was initially not taken on.