When – and given his talent, it seems a case of when, rather than if – Levi Colwill first appears at the national stadium in the England defence, it will not be his Wembley debut. That came when he was 11. Which, swift as his rise has been, was not a sign of precocity. It was because he was the mascot.
When he travels with England to Poland, potentially to make his international bow against Ukraine, he will miss a different sort of away day: at Harrow Borough, where Sholing are playing. And Sholing did the double in 2013-14: winning the Wessex League Premier Division and the FA Vase, at Wembley, with Colwill’s uncles Byron and Barry Mason in the team, with Colwill the mascot when they beat West Auckland Town.
