{"id":86418,"date":"2025-08-21T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86418\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:36:08","slug":"theres-very-few-that-are-much-better-legendary-ex-england-defender-labels-myles-lewis-skelly-as-best-left-back-in-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86418\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There&#8217;s very few that are much better&#8217; &#8211; Legendary ex-England defender labels Myles Lewis-Skelly as best left-back in the Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\" class=\"article_teaser__rjxUK\">Former England skipper Stuart Pearce has sensationally declared Arsenal\u2019s teenage sensation Myles Lewis-Skelly as the best left-back in the Premier League. The 18-year-old only made his full Premier League debut in December, yet in a matter of months, he is already being spoken of in the same breath as some of the division\u2019s best defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce crowns Lewis-Skelly as league\u2019s best left-backArsenal starlet rewarded with bumper long-term dealEngland debut goal adds fuel to the rapid rise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England skipper Stuart Pearce has sensationally declared Arsenal\u2019s teenage sensation Myles Lewis-Skelly as the best left-back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[498,49,48,588,51367,574,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-86418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-m-lewis-skelly","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}