Luke McCormick speaks with a purposeful, typically southern accent - a mixture of his upbringing on the outskirts of Portsmouth and his football education south west of London at Chelsea’s Cobham training base - that carries its own sense of audible swagger.
The Bristol Rovers midfielder communicates with clarity and carries himself with the air of someone who’s more than content with themselves in their own skin, and with just about the right level of confidence that threatens to creep into arrogance, but doesn’t quite get there; although he idolises Liam Gallagher probably with good reason.
The sheer competitiveness of professional football is such that it’s often an arena where overtly-confident characters tend to rise to the top, given the constant mental challenges the sport presents, and at least at surface level, McCormick is evidence of that.
