Good Lads Play Football. A year at the Chelsea and Arsenal football clubs` academies. Burnley FC Hull colonised the west and

Hull colonised the west and Rovers settled in the east and the clubs’ close encounters have generated their own characters and controversies

a season that saw the Rams win their second top flight title in only four years

They will jog older minds

John Wilson was born in Stockton-on-Tees and has been a Middlesbrough supporter for as long as he can remember

From arriving as a player to leaving as a director

Good Lads Play Football. A year at the Chelsea and Arsenal football clubs` academies. Burnley FC Hull colonised the west andThis book is the product of a research that had been held at the Arsenal and Chelsea football clubs` academies, aiming to understand the dramatic change that English football had undergone from a working class sport to an elite culture branch. On the sidelines I meet Arnie the coach. "What do you teach the kids?", I ask. We teach them how to be nice lads, he replies. They have to respect the ball and the game. They have to respect the coach, the