The one with 3,850 followers is on Twitter and the other has 3,000,000.
One is paid £375,000 a week, the other used to get £50 a week playing for Billingham Synthonia.
Erling Haaland is one of the best-known footballers on the planet, following his £51million ($57.7m) move to Manchester CityThis summer. Macaulay langstaff has a Wikipedia page, but not Macaulay.
This is not likely to continue.
Haaland is making headlines for his scoring exploits in The Premier League, Langstaff has been in explosive form in the historic surroundings of Notts Country, following a £50,000 move from Gateshead in the same window.
A flurry of 15 goals in 13 games in the fifth-tier National League have earned him the nickname of the ‘Non-League Haaland’ — although he hopes to change the first part of that by the end of the season.
The friendly Teessider grew up idolising the likes of Mark Viduka, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Yakubu in their days at Middlesbrough — and was heartbroken when he was himself released from their academy as a 13-year-old.
But just over a decade later, following a journey that has taken him to Billingham Synthonia, Blyth Spartans, York City and Gateshead, the 25-year-old has not only already earned hero status at Meadow Lane — he finds himself in an unlikely competition with Haaland to see who can finish the season as the top goalscorer in the country.
Every time the Norway international adds another to his City tally, Langstaff’s phone lights up with messages.
