Jonjo Shelvey: "Alan Pardew said I couldn't take a girl out"

Jonjo Shelvey was still a schoolboy when he made his Charlton Athletic debut in April 2008. The midfielder was just 16 years and 59 days old when he came on against Barnsley in the Championship after it had been mathematically confirmed that the Addicks could no longer make it into the play-offs. That gave Shelvey some bragging rights on the playground a couple of days later...but as he found out, his burgeoning career also came at a cost.