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United have always drafted in kids at 15.......ever since the 1940's......so this is definitely not new at all...
With the advent of greater communication, a clamouring from the press for new stories and the ease of getting young lads from Europe..this is just a natural progression.
In our 1952/53 youth team.......Clayton and Edwards were from Stafford.....Pegg from Doncaster....Cope from Crewe...Billy Whelan from Dublin....
In last year's team.....Galbraith from Edinburgh...Cathcart and Evans from Belfast....Fagan from Dublin....Strickland from Liverpool...
Both teams had the majority of players from the Manchester area.....
Getting Alund, King, the Brazilian twins is just the same these days as getting Irish and Scottish lads fifty years ago.....
I don't read too much into this.....and remember....when lads were on trial at United fifty years ago.....it was sensational news locally....we just didn't have the internet, radio and TV coverage to tell us about it!
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