If more evidence were needed of Reece Oxford’s meteoric rise, then here it is.
The 16-year-old starred on his Premier League debut in West Ham’s 2-0 win at Arsenal, with manager Slaven Bilic claiming even Lionel Messi wouldn’t faze the youngster.
Oxford kept Mesut Ozil quiet throughout his 79 minutes on the pitch, but it was only a couple of years ago that the Arsenal fan was tweeting about his hero.
Oxford would have been just 14 when he was panicking about Ozil’s deadline-day move in 2013 – and little did he know that he’d one day be bossing the German World Cup winner in the Premier League…
