Paul McVeigh looked around the Tottenham dressing room for the first time.
The Northern Irishman, then 17, saw Sol Campbell, Jurgen Klinsmann and Teddy Sheringham among others.
‘I didn't realise I had an inferiority complex,’ McVeigh, who moved to England in his teens after growing up in Belfast, tells Mail Sport. ‘All these top players, they're all lovely off the pitch so that wasn't the intimidating part.
‘It was more the fact that I'd come from Belfast and I was one of only a few in our youth team who wasn't an English lad and assured in their own ability.