Four-goal hotshot George Bowerman closes on Saddlers first team

Young hot-shot George Bowerman has put the region's top non-League clubs on alert after his sensational four-goal blast for Walsall reserves.

The Sedgley-born teenager fired all his team's goals in a 4-0 Birmingham Senior Cup victory at Tividale on Tuesday night.

And boss Dean Smith, who monitored Bowerman's progress during his days as the Saddlers youth team boss, believes the striker is another of the club's youngsters who has a real chance of making it all the way to the first team.

Next up for Bowerman, though, will most likely be a loan to follow on from his experience-gleaning spell at Redditch earlier this year.