'I'll keep doing my A-Levels, there are no guarantees in football': Luke Matheson scored a goal against Manchester United for Rochdale aged just 16 last year and is now at Wolves... he has a remarkably mature head on his shoulders
A year ago Luke Matheson’s football dreams stretched no further than a place on the plane when Rochdale flew off for pre-season training. But a lot can happen in 12 months. Now the 17-year-old is a Wolves player. His goal for Rochdale in their Carabao Cup draw at Manchester United — the League One club lost on penalties — last September brought him to the nation’s attention but it turned out Matheson was already on the Premier League club’s radar. So now he waits for the next step in a career that has been set into overdrive ever since he drilled a far-post cross into the net at Old Trafford as a 16-year-old with a psychology exam the very next day. Luke Matheson is heading into his second season at Wolves following his move from Rochdale The teenager scored a memorable goal in the League Cup against Manchester United last term ‘Every time that goal pops up on my phone or someone sends it to me, I still get goosebumps and the hairs stand up on my neck,’ Matheson told Sportsmail this we