blackburn rovers have one of the best academys in the country and won the under 18 league last year. they have a youth team budget of around £2million.
to put into perspective, on arrival at rovers, mark hughes was so impessed with the youth set-up that he swapped the kids training facilites with the 1st team training facilities.
they are so into the youth set up that they have a special logo with a little red rose bud replacing the fully grown rose on the rovers badge... which impressed me anyway. it's clever see.
can anybody tell me the population of blackburn and then the ratio of townsfolk to seats at ewood park compared to brighton & hove/withdean?