I was the forgotten Manchester United Class of 92 star - so I went to Man City and made history

An impudent flick got the Old Trafford crowd off their seat, a peach of a cross from Paul Scholes' through ball carved an opportunity for Ryan Giggs, and seconds later the ball was in the net.

Half an hour in and Manchester United looked to have uncovered another academy gem to go with the flurry of Fergie fledglings already beginning to make a name for themselves in the first team. It was September 1995, the famous 'you'll never with anything with kids' season and the newest kid on the block was Terry Cooke.

The Brummie winger produced a man of the match display on debut as Bolton were beaten 3-0 and left to warm applause from the home fans when he was replaced in the final quarter. Starting on the right alongside a clutch of his fellow class of 92 graduates, Cook seemingly had the world at his feet. Yet that autumn afternoon would be his only league start for United.

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“After my debut I thought that was it, I’d done it," he said, recalling the moment. "Then, the next week, I didn’t play. I was in squads and made a few more appearances and then I went to Sunderland on loan. I played for two championship-winning teams in the same season and never got a medal. That summed up the way my career went. It was very frustrating."

United won the league in 1996 with a core of young players Cooke called friends and team-mates coming through the ranks. But while David Beckham, Scholes, Nicky Butt and the Neville brothers became household names, Cooke's career was hampered by injury and ill-fortune, a serious injury in a reserve game