Leicester City v Spurs

[Steven]

From the OS. :icon_wink There is a longer report on FT.

Leicester City U18s 4 Spurs U18s 2
Posted on: Sat 10 Oct 2009

Leicester City U18s made it eight wins out of eight with an impressive victory over their Tottenham Hotspur counterparts, at Belvoir Drive.

Despite being 2-0 down at half-time, the league leaders showed great character to come back and overturn the Londoners.

Spurs struck through two set pieces in the first-half, but a second-half brace from Adi Yussef, and goals from Jorrin John and Nathan Hicks sealed City's 4-2 victory.

Academy Manager, Jon Rudkin, said: "There is certainly a lot we can take from this game, not only from the way we conceded, but also the way that the side responded in the second-half in terms of our offensive play and defending."

He added: "It was also great news for us all to hear of 17-year-old Elliott Chamberlain making his Welsh U21 debut, with a successful 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Next up for City's U18s is a trip to Watford on Saturday 17th October, as the lads strive to continue their 100% record this season.

Team: Ambrusics, Moore, Taft, Milne, Parkes, Bolger, John, Norburn, Schlupp, Yussef, Hicks.

Subs: Tebbutt for Yussef (80), Byrne, Knight, Hoban, Gill.

 

[slyfox]

From the OS. :icon_wink There is a longer report on FT.

In the nineties Manchester utd had a youth team that won everything with Giggs,Beckham,Neville brothers,Scholes, and Butt,these players went on to transform united into European Champions.

Could this happen with the Leicester Youth team,Watch this space:icon_wink

 

[DesertFox]

In the nineties Manchester utd had a youth team that won everything with Giggs,Beckham,Neville brothers,Scholes, and Butt,these players went on to transform united into European Champions.

Could this happen with the Leicester Youth team,Watch this space:icon_wink

A couple of years ago, Leicester had a youth team that won everything with Mattock, Stearman, King, Chambers, Dodds and Gradel, these players went on to kick their heels at Wolves/West Brom/City's Reserves/the lower leagues.

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(to be fair, another crop of players as "good" as that lot would be an impessive result and one or two of the current batch have already caught the eye - Bolger, Parkes, etc.)

 

[alex]

Well, we must be doing something right at this level...

 

[drummindefender]

if any of them were really that good premiership clubs would be poaching them

 

[Hazzman]

The English Academy contract is a bit more protective than it's European counterparts.

 

[drummindefender]

yeh but you still see young players moving in this country-hobbs, worley etc

 

[Hazzman]

For high sums of money....and look at the respective clubs in those deals. They don't operate academies, more school of excellences etc.

 

[Kettering Pete]

Does anyone know where the league table for this is published? I'd love to see it!

 

[Hazzman]

http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/0/40/0,,12306~147456,00.pdf

Tables before this weekend.

 

[GazLCFC]

Some more info, fixtures and table here

http://www.lcfc.com/page/Academy/0,,10274~1171853,00.html