England youngster Adam Wharton talks 'loner' tag and his welcome into the EURO 2024 squad from the senior players.
Wharton was playing in the Championship just five months ago for Blackburn. The Crystal Palace midfielder is now preparing with England for the Euros. Click hereAdam Wharton is standing in a ground-floor room bordering the central courtyard at the 12th-century German castle that is acting as England’s media centre at the European Championship. Youth and Middle Ages, side by side.
He was living in digs in Blackburn when England made the final of the last Euros. He and some of the other club scholars went to a pub around the corner and watched the game in a tent that had been erected outside. He will not start against Serbia but a team evolves fast in the heat of tournament play and his impact has been such that, if a vacancy arises either through injury or shortcomings in performance, Southgate will not hesitate to promote him to the starting XI.
When he was told his dad had described him in a radio interview as ‘a bit of a loner’, Wharton smiled slowly, letting it sink in.‘I don’t have a million friends. I sort of keep myself to myself. That is how I’ve always been really. That works for me. I live on my own in London now. I am not always out with my friends doing this and that.
‘I’ve got two older brothers,’ he said, ‘and playing with them in the garden, well, they beat me up a few times. That all helps me getting used to the physical side of the game.’
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