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We’ve taken a baby step in right direction

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The LeaguePaper Team
6 December 2020

I
N HIS acclaimed book No Hunger in Paradise, the journalist Michael Calvin asks Gareth Southgate about life as an academy footballer.
For once, the England manager isn’t his usual measured self. “It’s a shitty, horri-ble world,” he tells Calvin.
Southgate’s sentiments are vindicated by myriad tales of broken dreams and shattered lives, most memorably in the case of Kieran Bywater.
A former captain of West Ham’s Under-21s, Bywater was released by the Hammers after ten years in the system.
He received no warning, no support, and sank into a crippling ...

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