Lilleshall

I think St George's Park is a good start, um, but kind of more development of a-

Well, we had Lilleshall back in the day.

Yeah, but I think-

Unfortunately, with Lilleshall, the guy who headed it up was a long ball merchant.

Sure, yeah.

And basically...

And a lot of players came through Lilleshall.

If you look at the names, you're gonna-

So how did that come about?

So I went to Lilleshall of, uh, England School of Excellence.

So it's, they do like a, um...

You heard of Lilleshall?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Like, so, so I, I, obviously Sol Campbell went there, Michael Owen, Joe Cole.

Like, there's a lot of players that went there.

We're in this world of no patience.

I think in my ex- in my experience, when I was a kid, I was, I was at Lilleshall.

Uh, obviously come through the systems as we all did.

Watching, as I said, James come through.

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It's interesting.

I'm not gonna name the kid, but there's one lad who was in the class of '92, to be fair, came from Lilleshall, um, who got a two-year apprenticeship, YTS, and a two-year pro.

And we all found out, basically the rest of the group-

Ombridge, Black Shannon's in the way to London, two miles beyond Wellington Market and a two miles beyond Lincol Abbey.

Lincol or Lilleshall.

Breawood, Priory of White Nuns lately suppressed in the very march of Shropshire toward Derbyshire.

Beauvois, White Monks.

But then pretty quickly moved, moved, um, up in the, in the teams.

What was, um, Lilleshall like? Because I was, I think it finished just before I was, I would've-

Yeah

... had to have gone.

It was my nano who told me I should go, or I have to go.

Can't remember which way.

So what was this? Just young English players would go to Lilleshall?

Yeah, so you have trials, and it, he, they're supposed to pick the, the best, um, under-14s- In England.