keep your Lionel Messi, cos we’ve got our Nanetti!

ROOKS fans used to have a chant about their manager, Steve King, just around the time the Lewes boss was leading his team to the Blue Square South championship. It went thus: “Who needs Mourinho? We’ve got Steve Kingho!”

A variation on the theme may soon be heard bellowed from the Dripping Pan rafters if King’s assessment of his newest star is anything to go by.

How about “You can keep your Lionel Messi, cause we’ve got our Nanetti!”?

King laughed as he compared his exciting young wing man to the greatest footballing talent on the planet. And possibly the greatest footballer ever to have graced the planet at that, writes Brian Pollard.

It’s quite a comparison to make for a 19-year-old making his first start for the Rooks, following his arrival from Harrow Borough recently.

FC Barcelona, after all, never felt the need to blood their Argentinian genius in the bearpit of Isthmian League football on their mutual journey towards Champions League glory.

King chuckled as he made the comment, knowing full well that these things can so often be taken wildly taken out of context:

Ryman League boss unearths the next FIFA World Player of the Year.

Or... [So and so] is the next George Best/Ian Botham/Gus Caesar.

You know, that kind of thing.
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