"I have to admit, I love it when I am in those pressure situations; you get that bit of pressure and when you're pushing through it, you feel like a million dollars." The 19-year-old is one of just four British South Asians footballers with a Premier League contract, alongside Leicester City's Hamza Choudhury, Manchester United forward Zidan Iqbal and Tottenham attacking midfielder Dilan Markanday. "If you spend over a billion pounds, you bring in world-class managers in Mourinho and Van Gaal and they struggle to get the success the club wants, there is something fundamentally wrong at the club that means they are not winning. Given their long-standing relationship, it perhaps came as little surprise that Sam Tomkins was the man entrusted with the responsibility of captaining England for Shaun Wane's first match as head coach.