{"id":151717,"date":"2022-09-25T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/matthew-briggs-i-had-been-the-league-s-youngest-player-i-couldn-t-ask-why-i-wasn-t-involved"},"modified":"2022-09-25T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T07:00:27","slug":"matthew-briggs-i-had-been-the-league-s-youngest-player-i-couldn-t-ask-why-i-wasn-t-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/matthew-briggs-i-had-been-the-league-s-youngest-player-i-couldn-t-ask-why-i-wasn-t-involved","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Briggs: &#8216;I had been the league&#8217;s youngest player &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t ask why I wasn&#8217;t involved&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Briggs is sent on for his Fulham debut by Lawrie Sanchez in 2007 to become the Premier League&#8217;s youngest player.Before Arsenal&#8217;s Ethan Nwaneri it was Fulham&#8217;s Harvey Elliott, and before Elliott it was Fulham&#8217;s Matthew Briggs. For 12 years Briggs held the mantle of youngest Premier League debutant, feeling both the joy of the accomplishment but also its considerable weight.&#8220;I&#8217;m proud to have had that title and I wouldn&#8217;t take it back for the world,&#8221; says the 31-year-old. &#8220;But there is a part of me that wishes I&#8217;d just progressed slowly up the ranks.&#8221;Briggs was aged 16 years and 65 days when he replaced Moritz Volz in Fulham&#8217;s 3-1 defeat at Middlesbrough in the final game of the 2006-07 season. On the Saturday he had trained with Lawrie Sanchez&#8217;s first-team squad for the first time. On the Sunday he made Premier League history. On the Monday he sat his GCSEs. Success and the trappings of Premier League life beckoned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Arsenal&#8217;s Ethan Nwaneri it was Fulham&#8217;s Harvey Elliott, and before Elliott it was Fulham&#8217;s Matthew Briggs. For 12 years Briggs held the mantle of youngest Premier League debutant, feeling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,138,58],"class_list":["post-151717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}