Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
Swansea wether people like it or not has always had a strong football tradition and has always produced good young local talent or rather found it and developed it

We have a far larger population to draw from and Cardiff is a far bigger city with a huge pool of youngsters mad on football right on its doorstep from inner city Grangetown, Butetown , Riverside etc

But they never get seen

Somethings going wrong

Nathan Blake was born in Cardiff, lived in Newport yet got spotted by Chelsea

And there are more
The amount of really decent youth I’ve played against who hailed from the areas you mention sludge is frightening, they just drift away from football in their late teens, no one comes in and develops them.