As his mum and dad watch their football mad son Dylan Walton striding out to play for his team they are, like typical parents, filled with pride – but also a sense of disbelief.
Just a year ago he lay gravely ill in a hospital bed facing death as they sat in despair at his bedside.
Dylan’s liver was on the brink of total failure and doctors had warned his stunned parents he would die within 24 hours without a transplant.