Mixing with veterans can aid young guns

Guy Branston
FORMER FOOTBALL LEAGUE DEFENDER AND LEICESTER CITY LOANS MANAGER
I MADE my reserve team debut for Leicester City shortly after I turned 17. I was young, naive, straight out of the youth team.Suddenly I was playing alongside - and against - some big internationals. It was the Pontins League, and a big deal. Every Monday night you’d get crowds of three or four thousand people.I remember playing against Middlesbrough during the Bryan Robson era when he was signing people like Fabrizio Ravanelli and Juninho. Branco played, maybe Emerson. There were so many people th...

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