Although Nathan is my grandson apart from primary school I'd never seen him play out and didn't realise just how good he is. I knew he had ball skills, that's obvious watching him mess about with one but to carry that over onto the pitch in a game was brilliant. His dribbling skills were at times awesome regularly beating two and three players before laying off good passes to team mates. His tackling is as good as I've seen anywhere this year at his age group and the opposition winger was probably glad when the game finished after Nathan dumped him on his backside at least half a dozen times during the game, legally as well.
If Nathan doesn't grow and unable to fullfill his wish to be a keeper, with the right coaching he's a very promising prospect for an outfield player. The teacher did get it wrong today with Nathan, he should have played him midfield, he'd really have given them a headache then.
I know this is not strictly a Saints topic but he is a Saints player and I think his performance today is worthy of a mention. Biased view of a grandad.
