The introduction of the latter has led to an inevitable decline in the standards of the former. Boys’ club football was until fairly recently the fertile breeding ground for the greatest players Scotland has ever produced.
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Youth football investigation. Part 2: Boys clubs are at loggerheads with SFA’s youth initiative and argue public funds are being wasted
IF Henry McLeish has done his work thoroughly, the former first minister’s review of grassroots football is sure to have investigated the often acrimonious relationship between boys’ clubs and the SFA’s youth initiative programme.
