Perhaps you've heard of Leon King, a modest bundle of footballing prowess born in Scotland on the rather ordinary day of 14 January 2004. Which, if you're one for quickly calculated arithmetic, makes our wee Leon a fine twenty years of age. A defender, as his position is referred to, the lad does a decent job keeping a central defensive line for that other team, namely Rangers.
King is quite the towering figure, standing at a remarkable 1.88m (6ft 2in) --‘cause nothing screams 'top footballer' quite like the ability to reach the top shelf in the kitchen without the need for a stepladder. And at a healthy 74kg (11st 9lb), King certainly wouldn't be mistaken for a waif. One can only imagine the sheer fear struck into the hearts of opposing forwards as this mammoth in the number 38 jersey trots onto the pitch.
Harking back to his debut season in a Rangers shirt in 2020 - 2021, Master King graced the lights of the first team in a grand total of one appearance. A feat which he duly trebled in the following 2021 - 2022 season, making, wait for it... four first team appearances. The 2022 - 2023 season saw an apparent boom for our boy, as he felt the grass beneath his boots in 15 first team appearances. But alas, sport is a cruel mistress and the following 2023 - 2024 season saw King reduced to a measly five first team appearances. Can you smell the second hand embarrassment?
Now here we are, in the season of 2024 - 2025 where, in a plot twist worthy of a low-budget indie film, our wee Leon hasn't even managed to make a single first team appearance. One can only guess what he's been filling his time with -- perhaps learning the bagpipes, studying the work of Robert Burns, or perfecting the art of deep frying literally everything?
