West Brom manager Roberto Di Matteo admitted he allowed teenager George Thorne an early Christmas present by giving him a debut at Sheffield Wednesday.

The Italian had time to throw on Albion's youngest debutant since Charlie Wilson when 16-year-old Thorne came on for the final few minutes of the 4-0 win at Hillsborough.

He said: "A little Christmas present. Everybody feels good about Christmas coming up and we were four nil up.

"He is still young, but he has showed a bit of potential and we will keep monitoring him. He has trained with us and we thought we would give him a little go."