In the wake of his performance against Preston North End, some of the more fanciful tweets from Bristol City fans have compared Alex Scott to England’s third-most capped international and the country’s first £100 million player.
But while those apparent associations with David Beckham and Jack Grealish can be taken with a large pinch of salt and diagnosed as a case of mild football delirium it does, at base level, reveal one undoubted truth: he’s playing at a level rarely seen before from an individual in red and white.
Call it perfect timing but his last two displays, which have book-ended a transfer deadline day in which the club’s firm stance had ensured there were no late bids for the midfielder, have raised the bar of expectation for the teenager even further.
