Luke Matheson: Rochdale teenager scores at Manchester United then returns to school

Sixteen-year-old Luke Matheson was dreamland after scoring against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Wednesday night but can go back using a psychology evaluation at school to reality on Thursday.
Defender Matheson – aged 15 and entering his GCSE year at college – and his first game performed with becoming the club’s youngest ever debutant, at an EFL match against Bury.
Last night, Matheson’s 76th-minute equaliser against United Rochdale’s Carabao Cup third-round tie penalties – though they proceeded to reduce 5-3 on spot-kicks.
“What is just happened so fast,” Matheson informs Sky Sports News.
“Wow. What could I say really? Never did I think I would be 16 years of scoring at Old Trafford – that’s a dream come true for anybody.
“It’s surreal. I’m lost for words. It turned out to be a special night for me personally, the team, Bryan Barry-Murphy [the Rochdale director ] and everyone. It was just unreal.
“This was my mum’s first game in five years because she has been sick. So one was due to her. She was here ”
Asked if he has to miss school on Thursday, Matheson added:”We get off tomorrow, but I will go into school – I’ve got a psychology evaluation.
“I suppose we could’ve won, but the outcome does not take away anything from weeping – it was amazing. It was sort of a bummer we did not get the winbut we could not have asked for anything more I believed we had been excellent.”
Matheson is a guardian but his aim was purely instinctual and”something I will remember for the rest of my lifetime”, he says.
“I have kind of just noticed Ollie Rathborne set it up for me and I’ve kind of just seen it and I did not really think about it that my entire body took over,” he explained.
“I sprinted into the ball, seen it struck the roof of the internet and the adrenaline took over then I was away in front of the fans.
“The atmosphere was amazing, everyone was totally buzzing and words can’t describe that feeling of the bunch in the bash. The excitement was something specific.”

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