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“Are of Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen up front. Me and my brothers would watch England games together. When I was eight my uncle gave me a Rooney kit. When you have a kickabout and you’ve got someone’s name on your back, you try to follow in their footsteps!”

“My teammates told me I’d been selected to go to Euro 2016. I didn’t believe it. I thought they were joking. I’d only just made my debut for Man. United a few months before. Phil Jones came up to me and said, ‘I’m tellin’ ya mate, you’re going to France!’ ”

“You can’t stop trying to imagine what it’s going to be like. You think about the pitch. You think about walking into the changing room. But whatever you expect, it’s never going to be like how you dreamed – it’s so much better!”

“I scored my first England goal. As soon as the ball goes in the back of the net, it’s like something goes off in your head. It’s a moment you hold on to, but at the same time, as soon as you’ve done it once, you just want to do it again and again!”

“I never got to go to a match at Wembley. I only saw it on TV. I dreamed of the day I’d get to play there. When I got out onto the pitch, I kept looking down at the grass and thinking, ‘Man, it’s perfect!’ It was a long way from the garden outside the council estate!”