Just 0.012 percent of players in the organised youth game make it into Premier League, according to Michael Calvin's new book, "No Hunger in Paradise." But the story of Swansea striker Courtney Baker-Richardson is surely enough to restore the faith of any youngster dreaming of playing in the top flight.
The 21-year-old had spells at seven different non-league clubs -- he went on loan to Tamworth and Ilkeston, and then tried to make his name at Torquay, Kidderminster, Romulus, Nuneaton, Redditch, Kettering and Leamington -- after being rejected by Coventry at the end of a scholarship with his hometown club three years ago.