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You're effectively saying that academies and coaches add no value. You'd better ring Tony quick and tell them to down tools in Lancing. In small part you are right though - the academy team at Saints didn't 'magically transform him'. There is no magic involved. Just a lot of hard work...

Blackburn had a £1m offer accepted, but he ended up signing for (dirty) Leeds.

Sorry BoF, but you're well wide of the mark. Walcott was at Swindon for less than 6 months, at the age of ELEVEN. Southampton had him from 11 and made him what he is. If you'd argue that Saints 'didn't produce' Theo, then Palace didn't produce Moses or Zaha, who both joined their academy much...

Cheers. TINY bit of artistic license; It still wouldn't have been, as Frutos came on for Fraser.

Walcott was from Newbury, and to be fair, that's the same distance from So'ton as Hastings to Brighton, and I certainly consider Hammond, etc as 'local'.

The day we played Northwich in the FA Cup, the team was: 16 Michel Kuipers 3 Kerry Mayo 4 Adam Hinshelwood 5 Joel Lynch 6 Adam El-Abd 14 Guy Butters 11 Dean Hammond 28 Dean Cox 30 Tommy Fraser 15 Alex Revell 19 Jake Robinson And we brought on Gatting and Rents.