What is the secret to Wallsend Boys producing so many top-level football players?

Elliot Anderson is the latest in a line of successful footballers from a club that focuses on the wellbeing of young people

Not many local football clubs can claim to have produced the most expensive British footballer of the day. Wallsend Boys, a grassroots team in working-class north Tyneside are about to do it for a second time.

With Elliot Anderson on the brink of a deal with Manchester City worth £116m, eclipsing the fee paid by Real Madrid for Gareth Bale in 2013, another chapter in the history of the club is about to be written.

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