Play it again Sam!

The 17-year-old's impressive form for Coleraine Reserves last season earned him a call up to the first team on several occasions.

And he was a regular fixture in the Northern Ireland Under-18 squad.

Now Sam is hoping that he can carry his form through to the County Londonderry Premier squad this week as they bid to follow up last year's impressive trophy winning team.

"The lads won the Slemish Trophy last year so it would be nice to win something again this year but it's going to be tough as we play Spurs in our first game," Sam told Times Sport.

"It's always hard when you come up against an English team as they've such good players and they've been playing together for so long, but we'll give it our best.

"You have to go in to these games believing you can win and we'll certainly be doing all we can to do it.

"I kind of surprised myself last season, I played really well and it's probably my best season to date. But I'm not going to get too far ahead of myself.

"It was a dream to get a call up to the Coleraine first team as I'm a Coleraine fan. I just loved being a part of it and being in the changing room with the guys. David Platt was so good to me and has helped me so much.

"There are two other Coleraine players are in this year's team, Ruairi Quinn and David Healy, which is good to see, hopefully we can do the town proud.

"It's great to be playing in your home town tournament.

“You know walking through the town and everyone is shouting hello, it makes it really special."