Championship

Caution is needed to safeguard teen stars

by
The LeaguePaper Team
22 September 2019

TEEN SENSATIONS: Birmingham City’s Jude Bellingham savours scoring the winner against Charlton and, inset, Wigan’s Joe Gelhardt celebrates scoring in pre-season
PICTURES: PA Images

SEEING Jude Belllingham and Joe Gelhardt scoring goals in the Championship - it’s like going back to the past.
One 16, one 17. Fabulous. Young players today take an age to break into the first team. In my day, you were considered a failure if you weren’t playing by 18.
There are various reasons for that, but fundamentally we were just more robust. As children, our lives were about walki...

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