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THE DANGER OF TEENAGE KICKS

IS IT RIGHT FOR ANY PLAYER, NO MATTER HOW TALENTED, TO PLAY LEAGUE FOOTBALL AT 15? ALEX KEBLE REPORTS...

Fresh-faced: Everton’s Wayne Rooney in 2002

THERE aren’t many pockets of society where it’s considered perfectly reasonable for an adult to be excited by a 15-year-old. Sport has a unique ability to warp our perspective of age-appropriateness. By the quarter-life-crisis age of 25, when some of us are still blinking into the terrifying light of adult life, the footballer is wise and level-headed enough to be captain material. By the time they’re in the...

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