Morgan Gibbs-White has come a long way since playing for Thomas Telford School where he was coached by a former Reds defender
Nottingham Forest are verging on ‘everyone’s favourite second team’ territory with their unlikely assault on the Premier League title and their very real prospects of qualifying for the Champions League.
Since 2012 Lyttle has been director of football at Thomas Telford School in Telford, Shropshire and Gibbs-White is one of scores of academy players who have passed through his set-up due to an official link-up with Wolves and other students placed at Aston Villa, West Brom, Shrewsbury Town and Burton Albion.
“Morgan had many of the things you need, you could see the way he played in games, he was clever, he had a different brain to the other lads. He had that worth ethic but a clever brain and great touch. I’d be lying if I said I knew he was going to be a £45m player. It’s amazing how quickly he went from us to that.
“I remember going up to Liverpool and playing schools who know we are going up with 6-7 academy lads and they’ve got 6-7 playing for Everton or Man Utd or Liverpool, these cup quarter or semi finals are like academy games, real good games. Lyttle tracked them down to the sports hall, where they’d built a den out of trampoline mats and locked the door. Once they were rumbled the miscreants bolted out of the fire exit at the back of the cupboard.
Lyttle would only sporadically see his former student: “He came back into school to do a few assemblies but I used to see him quite a lot at South Staffs Golf Club, definitely in his last year at Wolves and he was really picking up the game as a beginner. I stood over him and watched his swing. Is he any good? Hopefully he’s got better, let’s leave it at that.”
“I remember being in that same situation, I think we hadn’t been beaten for 21 games from one season to the next. I think we set some kind of record so I can understand how those players are feeling. It doesn't matter where you go, Old Trafford, Man City, I bet those players are feeling 10ft tall and thinking they can't be beaten.
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