Spurs in full cry here.

Lonella! Welcome, welcome, listeners to another episode of the extra inch. My name is Wendy and I'm joined on this special episode with Harry Brooks head coach at Round World Academy. Hello, Harry.

Hello, Chris. How are you,

mate? I'm very well. Good to speak to you, mate. Before I go any further, I've been mean to say this

for a few weeks. Many congratulations to my good friend Nick on the birth of his first child.

I wanted to say that because I also congratulated Paul, who's our mutual friend. and I thought Nick might come for me if I didn't do the same for him. So yeah,

all the best to Nick and his family. But first, we're going to talk to Harry about what Roundworld

do. We're going to talk about Spurs at Academy, which we're both interested in. And then we're

going to talk a little bit about how Harry got into coaching and whatnot. So Harry, to start off

with, tell us about Round World and what they do and what they aim to achieve.

Sure.

Well, first of all, thanks for having me on.

So Round World are an independent football academy.

And what we are is we basically bridge the gap between grassroots football and professional football.

And we do this a number of ways.

We train boys from the age of six up until about 16 in group

training three times a week. On average, we push about six to eight players a year into professional

clubs to get signed. And we also play regular fixtures versus really high level opposition,

specifically professional academies.

That can be one-off games. And also, we get invited to prestigious international academy tournaments or tournaments in the UK. So in recent years, we've played against the likes of

Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Man United, Spurs, Shalka, L.J.

And many, many more.

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