‘The first team at Wormwood Scrubs is said to be better than QPR’s’. That line from Toby Young’s article from November has stuck with me. Could it be true? Are our jails full of talented footballers who didn’t quite make it? Are players regularly ‘spat out’ without any qualifications? Is there an academy-to-prison pipeline?
One day, Brian was at a friend’s house when his dreams were shattered
To find out, I spoke to some former academy players who had been to prison.
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