Vieira “West Ham Academy Best In England”
September 7th, 2007 | 
Author: Reading an article from TimesOnline, Patrick Vieira was quoted as saying:-
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“Training for young players is important, but they [the academies] are not working properly to make young English players come through.”
Vieira singled out West Ham United, Brooking’s former team, as the only club whose academy has produced genuine quality English players consistently.
“When you look at the four big clubs in England, you find there are very few English players in the team,” Vieira said. “When you look at the English players from Chelsea, many of them have come from West Ham.
“They are doing a good job, they are the only club that I believe that has done a good job. What the other clubs should do is ask why all the players are coming from West Ham and not from other clubs.”
It is very true that our Academy produce the cream of Englands players, our new lad Spence is a boy coming up through the ranks, Watch out for him in a year or 2.
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I sincerely hope that our impetus in terms of the academy system continues. People like Tony Carr are a legend, in my eyes.
My fear is that, with the new money, we will just become another club who look for the affordable, or even not so affordable, quick fix.
incidentally, the site has changed appearance – very high tech!!
The other theme was too much like Iain’s thought i would give it a nice bright appearance
I think you will find that Eggy & Bjorg are great believers in home grown talent, I actualy see a future where like in the 60′s when we won world cup, our Academy will be producing a majoruty of out team each year, this proves to be very cost effective, and makes very good business sense
Rooster, my ol’ mucker – I pray you are right!