“Play football,” comes the reply ... It’s the final rousing speech from Kinetic Academy’s under-18 coach Dan Hogan before the first game of their Scottish tour. The sentiment is grounded ...

Kinetic are well-known for spotting talent in grassroots football but Baugh is just one of many to have come to the programme having fallen out of a professional academy. Image: Omar Richards ...

“We run the football side of our programme ... with grassroots clubs such as Kinetic benefitting from tighter restrictions on overseas academy recruitment. “When we hit Brexit and every ...