You know you're getting older when footballers start looking so young..

[Lady Whistledown]

..noticed a lad of 15 years and 325 days (Jordan Ibe) scored for Wycombe in a match recently, while Derby started a match last week with a boy of a mere 15 years and 99 days old in midfield (Mason Bennett).

Both had to get permission off their Mums to play because they're still at school

Imagine playing Championship football three months after your fifteenth birthday. Not only must they both be incredibly talented, but also big lads, as most kids of fifteen are nowhere near physically mature enough to play in any men's game, let alone at professional level.

Jesus, it's enough to make most of us feel like we're getting on a bit

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

..noticed a lad of 15 years and 325 days (Jordan Ibe) scored for Wycombe in a match recently, while Derby started a match last week with a boy of a mere 15 years and 99 days old in midfield (Mason Bennett).

Both had to get permission off their Mums to play because they're still at school

Imagine playing Championship football three months after your fifteenth birthday. Not only must they both be incredibly talented, but also big lads, as most kids of fifteen are nowhere near physically mature enough to play in any men's game, let alone at professional level. Jesus, it's enough to make most of us feel like we're getting on a bit

you better take early retirement then.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Mason Bennett

Jordan Ibe

 

[Lady Whistledown]

you better take early retirement then.

Just 23 years to go...

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Aaaand Williams is SEVENTEEN and run us f***ing ragged on the 27/09/2011. It was THEN that I realised we need an Oatway/Kish/Chippy type in midfield. You cant f***ing tell me a 17yr kid would have had the run of the park with one of them playing.