Duncan Barkes

Then you've got Ephraim Mason-Clark, Coventry.

There's got to be a Coventry and or a Middlesbrough player in there somewhere.

And it's him.

He got the goal in their 1-0 win over Bristol City.

Then you've got next to him is Brian de Kierschmacher, who got the only goal for Oxford.

Oxford, yeah.

In their 2-1 defeat at Preston.

Then you've got Bobby de Cordova-Reed, who got the first.

Leicester 3, Ipswich 1.

And then you've got Jordan Storey,

for Preston, who put Preston in the lead against Oxford.

So these are clubs that will welcome any positive publicity, any positive news.

And in order to decide which of the players representing those clubs go on the team sheet for Team of the Week, you pick the goalscorer.

which makes Devlin's achievement even greater because that honour could have gone to Lang and it could have, it could just as easily have gone to Bowat.

But that's how these things seem to be put together to me.

And however, it doesn't kindle an enormous amount of interest in me.

I don't know about yourself, but a little bit of background goes a long way.

I don't know about you, but I always feel a little bit nervous about going overboard about an up-and-coming youngster, especially before he's really cut his teeth and shown what he could do.

They reckon that Wayne Rooney was ready for Premier League football at the age of 14.

And when he suddenly arrived, aged 16, there was absolutely no doubt about it.