“Disadvantaged? Not around Scunthorpe… have you seen the cars parked up on Sunday mornings? It’s very much a middle class domain nowadays.”
Being able to afford an old Mercedes doesn’t make the owner middle class, SOS! Same if the Merc is spanking new and fresh off the forecourt. Money and social background are completely different things.
My point was that as well as producing the occasional professional player, the club’s academy has an important role in the community. It’s different for a worldwide brand like MCFC which, apart from producing the occasional world-class player, also does other things like generate international interest in the club, which is important for merchandising, tv, etc. and (probably) has other financial advantages, such as tax.
True – let’s substitute Rich or massively financed (debt) in to the sentence as opposed to ‘middle class’.
The number of high quality, high end vehicles doesn’t reflect the ‘Kes’ image you are portraying.
Driving along Doncaster Road one Sunday morning, I saw one lad exit his (I guess) fathers new, shiny Ferrari in his SUFC kit.
I get the impression that a certain level of affluence is required to support & ferry about ‘pupils’ at these academies? 3 or 4 sessions and a game each week doesn’t come cheap; especially with the price of petrol these days.
The away games aren’t even local – I believe they travel up to about 2 hours away.
