Duncan Barkes

Obviously, that's his business.

He's a young man.

and he makes waves and he makes people sit up and listen.

So Josh Murphy, one of the fastest players in world football, and now one of the best, if not the best, crosser of the ball in world football.

And as George rightly points out, with what should be his wrong foot.

But a lot of professional footballers nowadays have got two feet.

Surely you have to.

I do see some players just bringing it round to their favoured foot and it's annoying because all you've got to do is practice hard with your wrong foot.

I see players sometimes making tackles, trying to block crosses with their wrong foot and block shots with their wrong foot.

And that wrong foot doesn't extend quite as far as the foot that you should be using.

Some players need to be two footed.

The great Bobby Charlton said that the reason he was just as good with his left foot, he scored a lot of goals with his left foot, which was his natural foot, just as good with his left foot as he was with his right foot, which he used to score some of his most famous goals from 25, 30 yards, was because when he was a boy, he used to go out to a bomb site.

near where he lived in Manchester, and he had a knackered old ball, but he used to practice whacking it at a tumble-down wall as hard as he could with his wrong foot, night after night after night, and it paid off.

I suppose there's a message there for some of the youngsters coming through the academy, that Josh Murphy could be the best crosser of the ball in the world with his wrong foot.

Well, all I would say is that they haven't seen him in his last half a dozen or so trot outs for Pompey because he has not been turning heads.

If he has been turning heads, he's turned one or two heads away because he hasn't gone one on one that I can recall with anybody.

Maybe he has sort of thought about it and maybe had a tentative go at it.

But for whatever reason, he has not been taking his man on, which is one of the things that we look for in a wide community.

attacker, especially if they then get a cross in or a shot in as a result of taking on and beating their man.

It could be a confidence thing.