Duncan Barkes

And I think he held down a starting place in the Everton line-up until Manchester United came for him right from the moment after he scored that famous goal from outside the box.

Singer of course is not going to scale the heights that Wayne Rooney scaled but he is a genuine prospect and what the management team at Pompey have to do and they seem to be doing it well is keeping him grounded keeping his feet on the ground.

Reminding him that there's a good deal of work to be done, but at the same time, shoring up, supporting, maintaining, developing the right level of confidence that a young player needs in alliance with a good footballing ability and a good footballing brain.

And then you've got yourself a serious prospect.

So you praise.

but not too much.

And you also offer constructive criticism, but again, not too much.

It's an art form bringing on talented youngsters, and it's beginning to look, isn't it, as though Pompey have got that art form cracked, or at least are well on the way to cracking it down at the Academy.

Yes, it's very nice for Josh Murphy to hear that somebody with an element of kudos in what he says, says that he is, did he say the best player in the world at crossing the ball?

There's a website somewhere out there that has measured that.

the speed that footballers travel at, and I believe it nominated Murphy as being one of the top ten fastest footballers on the planet.

He's got that as a little badge on his lapel, and now he's got...

The best crosser of the ball in the world on his lapel.

It's a little bit hyperbolic, isn't it?

But it does get the attention on the news agenda.

There's a lot of noise out there.

And anything that you can do if you're a professional, and I believe George Ellick is a professional.

He is a podcaster.

His podcast is sponsored by a very powerful magazine, I believe, in America called The Athletic.

How much they sponsor him for?