Credit to Sam Hutchinson. Last August after persistent knee problems he was forced to retire from the game. It was a major blow for the 21 year old as he was being groomed to become a first team regular and had made a couple of telling appearances in the side.
Faced with a life very different to what he wanted to do, Hutchinson was offered a role within the club as mentor to the academy recruits while he studied for a degree in psychology.

Youthful exuberance is sweeping through Trigoria. Gone is the wizen Ranieri, replaced by the comparatively fresh-faced Luis Enrique – and accompanying the Spaniard is an armada of talent barely free from adolescence. But while fan's fervour is reserved for the nineteen year old Erik Lamela, along with Bojan Krcic and Loic Nego at just one year Lamela's senior, an investment in experience may.