
Arsenal Under-18s head coach Adam Birchall can’t help but break into a laugh when he is jokingly asked if Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly could play in Friday’s FA Youth Cup quarter-final with Manchester United.
Lewis-Skelly and Nwaneri are technically available for the tie at Emirates Stadium, but such is their remarkable rise that the teenagers are now key parts of Arsenal’s first-team squad.