Arsenal F.C. Under-21s and Academy
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Nov 4, 2026
Jake HumphreyHOST
It's this reminder that you've said a million times, how could you get at something? It's how long you're willing to be bad at it.
Jake HumphreyHOST
For me, the story of Harry Kane in those early years, in those struggling years, moving around the lower divisions, being released by the Arsenal Academy, questioning his own ability, having to find some sort of inner strength.
Jake HumphreyHOST
That to me is almost a more exciting element actually of the Harry Kane story than becoming England's great, becoming a Tottenham great, becoming a world great, becoming world-class, winning the Ballon d'Or.
Jake HumphreyHOST
It's like, those lows those downs those struggles those disappointments that means the hurricane story is for everyone it isn't just for elite people and elite footballers
Asia Harbour BrownGUEST
But as part of the boys team, we didn't have a girls team when I first started playing.
Asia Harbour BrownGUEST
And then after Stockfold, from the ages of 10, 10 until 18 I was with um the Arsenal Academy or Centre of Excellence as it used to be called back then um and then after that I left to go to university in Bath um so played for the university team there and also played for Keynesham um which was close by before moving back to London so yeah that was kind of a whistle stop tour of my football before Dulwich.
Johnny HouriganHOST
Very interesting.
Johnny HouriganHOST
What was the memorable things you learned when you were growing
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Nice height for him, but he held on to it, crucially.
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Academy.
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Under-21s make flying start to title defence.
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Our under-21s stormed to the top of the PGA League Division 1 by racking up two huge wins, 6-1 at Bristol City and 4-0 at home over Brighton and Hove Albion in the first two games of the national phase.
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They recognised my talent and always pushed me to take part in every team sport at school.
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After advancing at GFA Loughton, my parents knew it was time for me to progress to an RTC club.
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I joined Millwalls Academy at under 12s at the age of 10.
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I was soon promoted to under 14s, where I started covering the big goals from the age of 11.
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Squad number 56.
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I live with my family in a town called Stockfold, which is where I played grassroots football before joining the Arsenal Academy at the age of seven.
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I played with the boys at Stockfold Juniors Football Club, which definitely helped prepare me for the physicality required to play at centre-back.
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There weren't really any other girls playing when I started at the age of five, so it's incredible to see how the game has grown in little over a decade.
James Lawrence AllcottHOST
So that kind of, the continuation of that is important.
James Lawrence AllcottHOST
And the Arsenal Academy is obviously very strong.
James Lawrence AllcottHOST
Weneri's over in Germany right now.
James Lawrence AllcottHOST
Max Daumann is having a kind of interesting, obviously had that sending off and he's sort of, he's going to have to acclimatise and it's going to be bumpy at times, isn't it? But obviously he'll be fine.
Jimmy SmithHOST
Yeah.
Jimmy SmithHOST
And then what's the chances of actually falling on it when you're scoring to equalise? John says, yeah, we had McGuinness out of the Arsenal Academy and he helped develop him into a senior player.
Jimmy SmithHOST
I like McGuinness, but we couldn't reject the fee that we got offered.
Jimmy SmithHOST
Hey, us too, if anybody wants to come in with 10 million quid again, we will be open to listening to that.
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And that has been Hurricane's career.
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From being kicked out of the Arsenal Academy, to going to Tottenham, to bouncing from Leighton Orient to Millwall, playing his first minutes in the Premier League for Norwich City.
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People don't even know that he played for Norwich City.
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Going to Leicester as well.
Startman StannaHOST
Osman Dembele had to work his way.
Startman StannaHOST
Lamiyama has always also been the chosen one.
Startman StannaHOST
but Harry Kane was never the chosen one Harry Kane got into he was in one of the academies at the youth level he entered at age six he went into the Arsenal academy at age eight after a year he was released for being too chubby and not athletic enough so he was released so he went back to I think Ridgeway yeah Ridgeway where he was before he came to Arsenal then he went for a trial at Spurs they rejected him at Thornham Hotspur so at Ridgeway they played another trial against Thornham Hotspur then he did well then Thornham Hotspur actually signed him after rejecting him initially so that is where his career started he was in the academy in the youth systems He was there for a while and then around age 16, that is where he signed his first scholarship deal.
Startman StannaHOST
in the 2009-2010 season that is when he made his first appearance on the bench he didn't even start, he made two appearances on the bench in the 2009-2010 season 2011 was when an iconic photo was taken between himself, David Beckham and then his current wife who was a childhood friend of his at the time there's a very popular picture then that time David Beckham was doing an opening for his own academy that was around 2005 and then he took that photo with them not knowing he was about to get to a stage in his life where he would overtake David Beckham and become England's all-time top scorer, England's greatest ever player and then it took off after 2009-2010 era he went on loan his first loan was Leighton Orient He scored a couple of goals when they were in the league, one at a time.
Graeme SpiceHOST
Just looking at his, you know, his early career, obviously he started, I think it was Chinkford, I think he played, or Ridgeway Rovers.
Graeme SpiceHOST
And then he had a year at Arsenal Academy at a very young age and then at Watford and then he signed for Tottenham.
Graeme SpiceHOST
So for that period, he was at Tottenham.
Graeme SpiceHOST
When he got to the age where he could play men's football, he was alone at Lake Norwich, then Millwall, then Norwich, then
AndyGUEST
Yeah, in an ideal world, we'd have Zach Swanson at right-back and then Jadon Magoma at left-back.
AndyGUEST
So Swanson came through Arsenal Academy, but he's been with us for five or six years now.
AndyGUEST
And then Magoma, the Brentford loanee.
AndyGUEST
Ideally, those would be our two starting full-backs.
John DugganGUEST
This guy was going around alone at like Millwall and Marwich when he was at Spurs initially.
John DugganGUEST
He was let go by the Arsenal Academy when he was a kid.
John DugganGUEST
What I love about it is it's absolute, a bit like Patrick Harrington in the golf.
John DugganGUEST
It's just a reward for just the graft, you know, and also the humility that he, it's not fake humility that he shows.
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