Oy, Wayne ... you're down to cover the Y8 Maths class in the upstairs storage cupboard ....

[non sociopath skin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/aug/03/premier-league-free-schools

So, are you REALLY happy with this, Nick .... NICK? .... NICK?

The Skin

[T_i_B]

1. Sorry for not noticing this before ...

...but I might as well ask the question here as well.

What happens to the pupils from a school like this who don't make the cut as professional footballers?

[non sociopath skin]

2. The same as happens to FC apprentices who don't make the grade.

"On yer bike".

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[Nihil]

3. Oh FFS ...

... is there NO failed idea from the US that UK politicians will not import?

:wtf:

[ikri]

4. Don't Ajax have a school as part of their academy?

It seems to work for Ajax and they don't simply abandon the kids who don't make it, they make sure they have a decent education to fall back on if all else fails (helps explain why ex-Ajax trainees end up as intelligent football pundits too - they're not barely literate thugs).

Having said that, it does seem like a way for football teams have the government subsidise their own academy programmes by calling them schools instead.