Get close to Lewis Miley and he doesn’t look old enough to be cleaning boots. Watch him from afar and you realise that few will ever be good enough to lace his.
At 17, he does not look like a player of potential. He looks like a player for now, and how Newcastle needed him on Saturday.
Miley was supposed to be resting after seven straight starts amid the squad’s injury crisis. But as restlessness spread and 10-man Fulham dug in for a point, substitute Miley dug his team out of a hole. His first senior goal made him the youngest-ever Premier League scorer for his boyhood club — given he’s still just a boy, that feels odd.