One year ago, Marcus Rashford was an unknown teenager, focusing as much on his end-of-year exams at Ashton-on-Mersey School as the day-to-day grind of earning a place in Manchester United's Under-21 team.
Then 18, the Manchester-born forward was so far down the pecking order at Old Trafford that he had reporters and supporters alike searching the internet for information when, after Anthony Martial suffered an injury during the prematch warm-up, Rashford was named in the starting XI for the Europa League tie against FC Midtjylland at Old Trafford on Feb. 25.
Ninety minutes later, he walked off the pitch having made the most spectacular United debut since Wayne Rooney's hat trick against Fenerbahce 12 years earlier.