Its 2016. It is now feasible that players born in the year 2000 can be scoring goals in professional football.

However, football fans are not ready to cope with this just yet. Jack Aitchison has netted for Celtic in an end of season goal bonanza and it has shaken the world of football. Aitchison was born in March 2000. Yes, the year 2000. Tony Blair had already been Prime Minister for three years and David Beckham was nearly 25.

This is earth-shattering, this is changing the way we look at the age of young players. We all once dreamed of playing the professional game ourselves and this is one of those moments where you realise just how depressingly old we all are now.

People just aren’t prepared for such a moment. We thought the astonishing Leicester title win, Aston Villa being relegated and Barcelona not winning the Champions League made this enough of a freak season, apparently not. Fans around the world were hoping the season could quietly fizzle out and we could enjoy the summer, but this has leapt upon us like no one could have imagined.

What were you doing at 16? I was still getting excited about scoring on FIFA, let alone doing it for a massive club like Celtic. Poor Jack Aitchison will have to go for a meal with his parents so that he can have a quick pint of Strongbow to celebrate, poor lad.

Not one for the purist football fan, this.

The number 99, is the one I would’ve picked when I was younger, too.

Fair play to the lad, he’s an icon at the age of 16. Congrats to Celtic for producing another superb youngster and we can just hope that this isn’t the last big goal for Aitchison.

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