'There is nothing better than the buzz of watching a young kid coming through and making it in our senior team,’ says Kevin McGinnity. ‘I tell the coaches of our younger teams that if they can move kids through, that is their trophy.’
One of those kids is now a star of the Premier League and an England international, having honed his talent in the Gaelic football leagues of Warwickshire.
Jack Grealish played for the John Mitchels club — of which McGinnity is chairman — in Solihull, Birmingham as a teenager and those who coached him then say he shows many of his early skills today.