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You're right. Hope to see him get some time this season and make a mark.

If he doesn't get game time, he's probably better off on loan.

 

:thup: I still want to see more of our more promising youngsters in the championship like, even if it is on loan somewhere more local like Boro

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Flash kids show no respect as England great Beardsley's left to handle their

dirty kits

 

By Clarke Carlisle

 

 

As an indictment of how respect seems to have become an alien concept for today’s youth, it’s difficult to beat a reserve game I played for York City against Newcastle’s Academy.

 

It was freezing, pouring down and blowing a gale, and it’s fair to say we were making our mark on the Toon’s next generation.

 

The more we got stuck in, the less they liked it, and the inevitable petulant putdowns came our way.

 

 

‘I probably earn more than you,’ bleated one, while another chided: ‘You play for York because you’re s**t.’ Oh dear. Zero marks for originality and the use of ‘probably’ didn’t do much to put us in our place.

 

I singled one of them out and said: ‘I’ve played more league games this season than you’re likely to in your entire career and I’ll remind you of that when you’re serving me in Nando’s in another three years.’

 

 

There were big-time Charlies when I was an apprentice, but even the biggest showed a modicum of respect for the senior pros.

 

Not these boys. They had travelled down on one of those five-star luxury coaches, and afterwards they all plonked themselves back on it with their iPods plugged in. While they settled into their seats, the skips of dirty kit were pushed along the path below by Peter Beardsley. Yes, the former England great Peter Beardsley.

 

Generations before me would have carried an iconic figure like Peter on to the bus, let alone push the skips themselves, but that respect isn’t there any more.

 

It was one of the most disheartening sights I’ve seen.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2415653/Clarke-Carlisle-Flash-kids-respect-England-great-Peter-Beardsleys-left-handle-dirty-kits.html

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