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, becoming Aston Villa's club-record signing at £28m.
From knock-back to playing left-back
Born in Newton Abbot in Devon, Watkins 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.