Wales new boy Lawrence 'not familiar' with PL
The young star recently received his first international call up, but given he plays in the Belgian league, he admits that he is not too aware of the weekly on goings of the English top flight.
Wales new face James Lawrence has admitted that he has had to get to know his international teammates, as despite most of them being regulars in the Premier League, he does not regularly follow the English top flight.
Lawrence has been something of an enigma, at 26 he is just now earning his first senior international cap, with even national manager Ryan Giggs admitting that the player had "gone under the radar" in previous years.
The defender plays for Anderlecht in the Belgian first division, and as such, he is somewhat unknown in comparison to his teammates, the majority of whom play every week in the Premier League.
His career path has been rather unusual; he moved to Europe at a young age, first playing in the Ajax academy, before moving to Slovakia for first team minutes, and then finally ending up with Belgian side Anderlecht.
Incredibly, it has only been realised in recent months that Lawrence is indeed eligible to represent Wales, due to his grandmother having been born in Haverfordwest.
He continued: "It's fine, it's always nice to come into a new squad especially when all you've all got the same goal and everyone is focused on the game on Friday."
Lawrence will also need to learn the Welsh national anthem in the next few days, although he is not worried about the prospect: "I've listened to it quite a lot," he went on. "I've always loved the Welsh national anthem, I thought it was one of the best national anthems out there. Obviously I will have to learn it at some point but yeah I've been listening to it a few times."