CHRIS DUNLAVY-THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST

PICKING a star of the future can be embarrassing. Remember when everyone thought John Bostock was the new Steven Gerrard?
Or hailed Freddie Adu as the greatest thing to come out of America since the Model T Ford? Or even thought Theo Walcott would grow out of aimlessly legging it?
At the last count there have been approximately 377 ‘new Zidanes’, 845 ‘next Lionel Messis’ and more successors to Maradona than notches on Mark Owen’s bedpost.
Tipping talent is a thankless and pointless task. Bookies, bars, bird...