Manchester United's Cameron Borthwick-Jackson made his debut for the club over a month ago against West Bromwich Albion. He started United's most recent loss to Bournemouth and the youngsters star continues to rise as Manchester United's website revealed today that he holds the record for the longest name in the history of the football club. Is there anything this man can't do?
Borthwick-Jackson comes up against some stiff competition with the likes of Walter Winterbottom and Herbert Birchenough but prevails with two letters to spare over United's previous longest name title holder.
The website also points out that the young defender also shares the longest name in Premier League history with ex-Hull City striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink and former Cardiff City defender Kevin Theophile-Catherine.
So, while news coming out of Old Trafford has generally been bad for much of the season, United fans can rest assured that their 18-year old defender is a trailblazer in one way, at least.
Longest United names: 23 - Cameron Borthwick-Jackson; 21 - Bastian Schweinsteiger; 18 - Herbert Birchenough, Charlie McGillivray, Thomas O'Shaughnessy, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Juan Sebastian Veron, Walter Winterbottom, Billy Wrigglesworth; 17 - Russell Beardsmore, Danny Higginbotham, Andrei Kanchelskis, David McFetteridge, Raimond van der Gouw, Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Longest Premier League names: 23 - Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, Kevin Theophile-Catherine, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink; 22 - Giovanni van Bronckhorst; 21 - Jamie Barnwell-Edinboro, Jean-Claude Darcheville, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Konstantinos Mitroglou, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Nikodimos Papavasiliou, Bradley Wright-Phillips; 20 - Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Stelios Giannakopoulos, Rushian Hepburn-Murphy, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Christian Wilhelmsson.
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