Ben Turner: ‘Coventry made a man of me. It made a football player of me’

Not when he earned his first professional contract with Coventry City or when he established himself in the first team. Not even when he walked out at Old Trafford and helped the Sky Blues record one of the most famous cup victories in the club’s recent history.

Turner spent much of his early career feeling as though he was fighting to prove that he belonged, an attitude shaped partly by a serious injury suffered before his professional career had even begun and partly by an upbringing that ensured there was little chance of success going to his head.