Former Manchester United youth product and Irish League striker taking the Amateur League by storm with boyhood club

Croskery, who made the move to United’s youth academy at 14 before returning to Northern Ireland with Linfield in 2016, has scored a quite astonishing 33 goals in 13 NAFL Division 2B matches for boyhood club Castlewellan Town this season, including four in last night’s 5-1 victory over Newtownbreda which helped the unbeaten side secure promotion.

The 26-year-old marked his return – 13 months after his last appearance for Portadown – by netting a hat-trick on debut and since then has surpassed three goals on six different occasions (he scored four times in four of those and seven in another).

Watching from the sidelines while recovering was giving Croskery the desire to play again and 16 years after last turning out for Castlewellan, the former Warrenpoint Town man made the decision to come home.

"It's a great feeling,” he said. “No matter what level you're playing at when you're scoring goals it always makes life a bit easier and you're happier.

"The boys were calling me Castlewellan's Erling Haaland! It's not a bad comparison.

"It has been great to come back and play with the boys that I played with growing up. I played with them when I was six until 10 and then moved to Lisburn and from there my football career took off.