This is a common thing done for the young Ice Hockey players over here.
Keep them out of trouble and gets the club another pair of eyes on them.
If the kid goes on to make it big they're usually quite grateful to those who helped them out.
….a good mate of mine did it for a long time for Everton, for some reason he got lots of the young Irish lads. Richard Dunne would be the most famous of his lodgers.
Still happening now, Justin Clarke boards just a few doors from my son’s house...
Otto Rohwedder was born on this date in 1880
Never heard of him?
He invented the best thing since . . . well, whatever the best thing was before sliced bread.
He invented the worlds first bread slicing machine. ;)
….was talking to Plymouth fan a few weeks ago, they loved him but he just wasn’t very good. Apparently never took a penny off the club, not even to pay up the remainder of his contract. No idea if that’s true.
I think with the likes of Rooney...