Evans Above

Jonny Evans has the world at his feet

Season Ticket presents a profile of Manchester United and Northern Ireland defender Jonny Evans on Wednesday, 25 November on BBC NI.

At 21, the boy from the Rathcoole Estate in north Belfast has already Premiership League, Carling Cup and World Club Championship winners' medals in his possession.

As a United fan from childhood, Evans is now living the dream at Old Trafford where he has established himself as an integral part of Sir Alex Ferguson's first team squad alongside the stars he idolised as a youngster.

Presenter Thomas Kane has been afforded rare access to United's training ground at Carrington where he watched Evans training alongside the likes of Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Michael Owen and the rest of the United stars.

'Evans Above' includes interviews with Manchester United's most decorated player Ryan Giggs and former striker turned Reserve team coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

At 15 his family made the decision to relocate to Manchester in order to abide by rules that stipulate that to play for the youth teams you had to live within an hour and a half of the ground.

Jonny's younger brother Corry is now also full-time at the club. Season Ticket spends time at home with the Evans family and we also follow him to Widnes where he watches his younger brother captain Manchester United Reserves against their Everton counterparts.

The programme will also reflect on Evans' meteoric rise to international prominence, beginning with his debut at just 18 in that never to be forgotten win over Spain at Windsor Park.

The programme shows an unassuming lad with no interests in the trappings of fame. 'Evans Above' is an insight of a young player already tipped as a future captain of both club and country.

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