“I think ‘loner’ is a bit harsh…” Such has been the speed of Adam Wharton’s breakthrough and the assured, quiet manner with which he has gone about his business in the blink-of-an-eye since he entered wider conscious, the only character reference those outside Crystal Palace and England have had to go on came from his father, John, in a local radio interview last week.
“I don’t have a million friends,” Wharton the younger said on Wednesday, facing the media for the first time as an England international and attempting to both explain and laugh off his old man’s assessment. “I sort of keep myself to myself, that is how I’ve always been really. That works for me.”
