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Aaron Wan-Bissaka
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Author_Callum Murray
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Category1=Non-Fiction
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David Nugent
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England
English football
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football
football culture
football hotbed
Huyton
Jadon Sancho
Joe Aribo
Joe Gomez
Joey Barton
Kwadwo Baah
Language_English
Michael Beale
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Peter Reid
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recruitment
resilience
role models
scouting
Simon Clifford
skill
skill acquisition
softlaunch
south London
Steven Gerrard
street football
Talent development
talent hotbeds
Wilfried Zaha
World Cup
Product details
- ISBN 9781801501606
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 144 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Something in the Water explores the inner workings of England's football-talent hotbeds, investigating how these areas so often create elite footballers. For decades working-class northern towns have churned out players like a factory conveyor belt - places like Huyton, a town of just over 33,000 that has produced the likes of Steven Gerrard, Peter Reid, David Nugent, Joey Barton and Tony Hibbert. However, the emergence of south London as the new-school hotbed is exciting. Players produced here are like nothing seen before in England. The concrete Catalonia is home to a new generation of stars such as Jadon Sancho, Wilf Zaha, Joe Gomez, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Joe Aribo and others. Bringing together the thoughts and ideas of those involved at every level of the game - from the south London estate cages to the heights of the Premier League and Europe's elite - the book unearths the secrets of two distinct types of hotbed that represent the past, present and possible future of English football.
Callum Murray has worked in youth football for the last five years with some of the most talented and respected players of their age in the country, including working in men's first-team recruitment for a professional club. With a background in sport psychology and a deep interest in football and talent development, he has researched football- talent hotbeds in England exhaustively, speaking to experts and some of the most influential people in this field. Something in the Water is his first book.
