Once ribbed for his long hair, now Luke ‘Bill’ Ayling is a leader at Leeds
New York TimesTerry Skiverton had a method for making Premier League loans work at Yeovil Town. “Technically, he’s always been good enough to do that,” says Neil Banfield, who was Arsenal’s head of youth when Ayling was in their academy. ‘Yeovil are offering me football, so yeah, I’ll go’ — that’s how he saw it.” Ayling’s enthusiasm for the blood and thunder of League One was obvious. “He grafted in training, don’t get me wrong, but if you offered him games every day or training every day, he’d be playing every day.” Yeovil held their ground in mid-table after Ayling’s arrival: finishing 14th in League One in his first full season, 17th in his second. “The thing is, if you’re a right-back at Yeovil playing away at Southampton in League One, up against Adam Lallana and Rickie Lambert, you’re not going to score many goals,” Skiverton says.
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