Something in the Water : The Story of England's Football Talent Hotbeds

Something in the Water explores the inner workings of England's football-talent hotbeds, investigating how these areas so often create elite footballers.For decades working-class northern towns have churned out players like a factory conveyor belt - places like Huyton, a town of just over 33,000 that has produced the likes of Steven Gerrard, Peter Reid, David Nugent, Joey Barton and Tony Hibbert.However, the emergence of south London as the new-school hotbed is exciting.Players produced here are like nothing seen before in England.The concrete Catalonia is home to a new generation of stars such as Jadon Sancho, Wilf Zaha, Joe Gomez, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Joe Aribo and others.Bringing together the thoughts and ideas of those involved at every level of the game - from the south London estate cages to the heights of the Premier League and Europe's elite - the book unearths the secrets of two distinct types of hotbed that represent the past, present and possible future of English football.