Spot on. There's been lots of talk about the Swansea model, but Southampton's youth policy has been brilliant for a while. Think our board structure and board members are better than theirs though: BARBER and BURKE IN
I watched the highlights package of Maccabi last summer. Two things stood out:
1. it took Oscar a while to imprint his ideas, but it came through, and their results improved as the season progressed, and finished with a great run of wins.
2. they scored a lot of early goals, very early goals. We...