Source: TheGuardian
Oliver Burke: 'I feel like a proper footballer again, really good in myself'
The 22-year-old talks about being rejuvenated at Alavés, the club’s Scottish groundsman and dealing with abuse in the Championship“So that’s what he’s going on about!” Oliver Burke is laughing now, telling the story of his first day at Alavés and the moment when, visiting his new home ground and the training facilities on the road into Vitoria, northern Spain, everything fell into place. “I turn up and the guy taking me round is talking about bagpipes and stuff and I can’t really understand what he’s saying or why,” he says. “And I’m saying ‘yeah, yeah, that’s what we do in Scotland’, thinking he’s just having a bit of fun with me. Then I just remember walking onto the pitch and the groundsman coming over and going: ‘Hello, how you doing?’ in a Scottish accent. And I’m like: ‘What?’ And suddenly, it all made sense.” Related: Maxi Gómez: ‘In Uruguay you lift up a rock and there’s a footballer’ | Sid Lowe Related: Flawed, dysfunctional Barcelona are top of La Liga but not very good | Sid Lowe Continue reading......read full article
