TUESDAY 6 AUGUST 2019How Maguire can reignite
United in two key areas
The centre-back poses in the club shirt after his transfer was confirmed (Getty)
MARK CRITCHLEY
NORTHERN FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
It is the late spring of 2011. A teenage Paul Pogba is out on the right wing at Bramall Lane, spinning a
devilish, low cross into the six-yard box. Jesse Lingard’s poke at the ball deflects off Sheffield United’s
goalkeeper, yet still rises up towards goal. The covering defender is underneath it but comically heads
against his own crossbar and – somehow, according to the assistant referee – over the goal-line.
That covering defender was Harry Maguire. Sheffield United would draw that first leg of the FA Youth Cup
final 2-2 despite Manchester United’s contentious opener, only to go down 4-1 at Old Trafford the following