Manchester United and Manchester City are facing questions over a potential age-fraud scandal involving some of their foreign-born academy players.
Evidence has emerged casting doubt on the stated ages of six footballers to have moved to the UK in the last several years – three of whom have played for England at youth level – and raising the prospect some may even be adults. It includes photographs indicating each of the six had played in much older year groups back in their homelands than the age they purportedly would have been at the time.
Telegraph Sport is not naming the players involved because the photographs and other records do not prove their stated ages are false and because some or all may still be vulnerable minors.