MADDISON CUTS UP CLARKSON

his elevation into the England upward trajectory since he made WHEN motormouth Jeremy squad, he turned deadly serious his debut for home-town club Clarkson took to Twitter to tell when addressing his commitment Coventry at 17. James Maddison to spend less to get to the top. A £2.5million move to Norwich time with his barber and more “I used to watch Jeremy followed in February 2016 and, on his football, the Leicester’s Clarkson on TV and he made a although he was immediately sent midfielder’s withering comment about my hair, so I just back to Coventry and then loaned comeback got 171,000 likes. responded,” said Maddison. out to Aberdeen, his eventual

Maddison’s silky skills may “I wasn’t narked. It was just a impact at Carrow Road brought a have earned him a place in light-hearted joke because I think £20m move to the Premier the England squad, but the my hair is all right. League last summer. 22-year-old turns decidedly “But my life is my football. If Maddison’s form for Leicester spiky to any suggestion that anything, I sometimes need to take has sparked speculation that both he ever puts style ahead of a step away from the game. Manchester United and Tottenham substance. “Then again, nobody, apart from are now trailing him.

Former BBC Top Gear my close friends, know me that “I want to play at the highest presenter Clarkson certainly well personally. I live and breathe level my ability will allow me to,” got short shrift, with Maddison football. Maddison went on. dist reminding him of his own “(Leicester manager) Brendan “I like to think I’ve my head thinning head of hair (right). Rodgers has to come and drag me screwed on with the transfers

And while the former off the training ground because I’ll I’ve made. I’ve played League Coventry and Norwich still be out there at 1pm when One, in Scotland, the playmaker (left) laughed off the training finishes at 11.30. Championship and the Premier

exchange as he spoke about “If anyone wants to question League. I worked my way up.” whether I concentrate on football enough, I’ll just leave that out there.

“Like I said, I love the game. I love watching it, I love playing it, I love talking about it. Anyone who knows me knows that.

“It’s been like that since a young age – and it’s stood me in good stead and got me to where I am.”

Maddison has always been a young man in a hurry.

His career has been on an