The thing is Rufus teams such as Sunderland have brilliant academies where they bring in youngsters from aged 7 . Once they make it to the big time they are head hunted by greedy agents seeing ££££ for themselves and not necessarily thinking about the young players welfare. Okay so it worked out for Jordan Pickford the hero of the World Cup born and bred in Sunderland and taken on by the academy at a very young age.... not sure it will turn out quite as well for young Josh Maja who has been persuaded to leave Sunderland where he played in the first team . He is now sitting on the bench at Bordeaux and the word on the street is that he did not want to leave yet (he’s still only 20) . Let’s hope he doesn’t end a very promising career sitting on the bench at some wealthy team like Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham etc. who can afford to keep him sitting on the shelf like a spare part.
The teams such as Accrington Stanley die to play at Sunderland with their capacity crowds and state of the art ground .
Who would have thought you'd stalk me into a thread about soccer? I thought I'd be free of all the chatter about MILs, DILs, SILS and Dills, which is where you'd prefer to be, surely? Otherwise I'll have to go down the pub for some peace and quiet! 
I know of a Gabriel Jesus playing for M/c City, but what has Billy Connelly got to do with anything?
I see they drew with "Stanley"; who are they when they're at home?
Soccer might look like rugby at times, but not when elite teams like City are playing.! 
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