Manchester United and Man City have used top Greater Manchester schools to help produce England football heroes
Phil Foden and Marcus Rashford both got an exhaustive education alongside their football development - we look at the programmes that made that possible
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The visitors landed an early penalty to first five Matt Robbins before Timaru Boys’ went on the attack. A poor pass and a poor option cost Timaru Boys’ two chances of crossing the line. However, they backed themselves by turning down two handy penalties in favour of line outs and the second time it paid a big dividend. The pack went close to scoring after hammering Christchurch Boys’ line but when the ball was spread wide fullback Max Aitken ran hard into a gap and scored an excellent try. First five Taine Cordell-Hull landed an excellent conversion for a four point lead.
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At 3.58pm on February 13 in 2014, a 13-year-old boy announced himself to the world.Â
He had just created his own Twitter account and he needed to say something, anything, to shout into the void.
âMatch dayy against Arsenal!â he posted.
Match dayy against Arsenal!
At 8.40pm he was back. âWe drew against Arsenal 2-2!â he posted. âMan banged free kick.â
Was anyone listening to the kid who had just started playing for Watford Under-15s? Not really, it seems. The only replies to those tweets came years later, by which time he was a superstar at Borussia Dortmund, being bombarded daily by Manchester United fans urging him to move to Old Trafford.
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