Ah, the golden generation.....in that great clip posted by @ManxBrian, Joe Royle talks about the great 1970 team and how he, Whittle, Husband, Harvey, Wright, Hurst, Labone and Kenyon came through the Academy.
Different times, of course, but even then Husband, Hurst and Kenyan weren’t local so we must’ve have a scouting network.
We did have Johnson Scott, Styles, Telfer, Goodlass, Buckley, Barlow, Unsworth, Rooney, Osman, Cadamatari, Vaughn Anichibe, Hibbert, Barkley, Davies to name but a few.
Is that decent value for 50yrs of academy and youth teams?
Probably.
Then again if you dont buy a ticket you wont win the raffle...which is the whole point.