Parrott picks a steady path amid highs and lows of the loan road 

Ireland striker is a teenager no more but he's eager to prove that the promise of youth is still being fulfilled as he focuses on a summer return to Spurs

Hope floats: Troy Parrott keeps his eye on the ball at Ireland training in Dublin this week. Pic:Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Harry Kane was 18 when he made his first temporary switch away from Tottenham Hotspur, to Leyton Orient. Troy Parrott was the same age when he swapped the Premier League club for a slice of life on the far bank of the Thames with Millwall.

England’s captain was just shy of his 20th birthday when he completed the last of four loan moves around England and returned to Spurs. The Dubliner will be a few months beyond that marker when this season ends and he reports back in at the parent club.