When a club has a special player, you hear rumours about him.
I remember being at Liverpool and hearing about ‘this 14-year-old kid at Everton’. His name was Wayne Rooney. Two years later in 2002, I was at Tottenham, lining up in the tunnel at Goodison Park, and who was standing next to me? Rooney, aged 16, making his debut.
I remember welcoming Michael Owen into the Liverpool changing room, and being on the pitch when he became the youngest scorer in the club’s history.
English starlet Mason Greenwood is showing excellent promise at Manchester United
He was 17 and making his debut against Wimbledon.