Newcastle defender Jamaal Lascelles has found himself on the receiving end of high praise from former Premier League player Danny Higginbotham.
The latter is now a pundit at Sky Sports so he still very much in touch with the game of football. And he seems to rate the Toon centre-back quite highly.
“He leads by example, he’s a strong, physical player,” Higginbotham declared on Sky Sports News on Thursday (via ChronicleLive).
“[When I was with him at Nottingham Forest], the one thing that stood about him is that he wanted to learn.