As has been witnessed several times, De Gea makes a number of saves with his feet.He grew up playing Futsal and uses Futsal techniques when using his feet to keep the ball out of the net.

My son would get 4 games of it a season. This year as a under 11, it stops as they go from 7 a-side to 9 a-side. Futsal was just 5 a-side, so involved a lot of players coming on and off. Initially I enjoyed it. However, as they have got older the constant change of players disrupted things and rather than encouraging skill, the bigger lads worked out that with a small pitch and hard sports hall surface they could just thump the ball from the halfway line to try and score.

Yes have to agree. Should be to encourage ball control and close skills. I thought that they needed a zone where you could score from, to stop the long range shooting.

As a result got to see more skill on the normal 7 a side games.

Yes certainly wouldn't surprise me. Certainly know of one team who was getting players born in September and October so that they were generally physically bigger boys. Seems a shame that they are thinking like that already for what were 9-10 year olds.

My son was born early November so on the older side, however, he's only average height or perhaps just below. Last year was only his second season but he managed to finish 2nd highest scorer with 19 goals so well chuffed. Mainly played on left hand side of midfield, once or twice in defence and a few times up front.

I tell him to keep at it. He’s followed his Dad in supporting Palace. Someone I know who lives near us, Len Tomkins, played about 20 times for Palace before going on to play over 500 times for our home town team Chelmsford City. Jack was so impressed when we bumped into him in the street and told him. I’d be happy if he could make even that decent non league level.