If the Hollywood studio behind Jamie Vardy The Movie are looking for another fairytale they should keep an eye on Rob Holding’s progress this season. The 20-year-old has never been to the Emirates Stadium before and his first visit tomorrow is likely to involve him making his full Arsenal debut in the Premier League against Liverpool, an achievement that will go down particularly well among his family of Manchester United supporters.

As a quiet kid from the small mill town of Stalybridge to the east of Manchester, Holding had never even visited London, except when playing in a match, before completing his surprise £2 million move to Arsenal this summer — the source of much mirth and mockery among his new team-mates — but he