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Jesse Lingard surprises young United fan

Amy, a year-eight pupil at the Manchester Health Academy, and also an aspiring footballer, was tricked into thinking she was helping to answer a football question, but was left stunned to find one of her heroes on the other end of the line.

“My dad was acting a bit suspicious,”

Amy told Jesse, and MUTV’s Mark Sullivan.

“I kept asking him what was going on and then my aunty said there was a football question on my conference call.”

Amy showed up wearing her Lingard no.14 jersey – something her dad had carefully orchestrated.

“I only knew at the last minute that they were doing it, because they were telling me do this and do that.