BIG INTERVIEW: DAVID FLITCROFT
By Chris Dunlavy

DAVID Flitcroft shakes his head as he recalls a conversation with the parents of an aspiring 12-year-old footballer.
“This lad had just been released by a professional club,” says the former Barnsley, Bury, Swindon and Mansfield manager, who now runs coaching clinics for youngsters jettisoned from the academy system.
“I spoke to the parents and asked them what they wanted. Like most people, their first instinct was to go ‘I want him to get straight back into an academy’.
“I said ‘okay,...