Watching proceedings at this year’s Christmas pantomime at Manchester’s Contact theatre, you may be led to think that it’s service as normal when it comes to the panto tradition: Drags as dames - check, a classic fairy-tale - check, and family-appropriate innuendos - check, check, check. But, in reality, this festive production is making history in a number of ways.
Inside the Manchester United training camp for former players as club launches alumni scheme
20.11.2023 - 12:49 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Tuesday afternoon last week at Carrington. On one of the smaller pitches at Manchester United's training ground, coach Neil Harris is putting Matthew Olosunde, Oli Kilner and Eric Hanbury through their paces. On the side of the pitch, Tom Thorpe and Callum Gribbin are in conversation. Joe Thompson floats between groups, the glue holding it all together.
These footballers all have one thing in common; they came through the academy system at United. In fact, they have two things in common, they were all released by United as well, but then that is why they are here. They spent last week at Carrington as part of the club's first training camp for their new alumni project.
This is the 'soft launch' of a scheme that has been on the cards for 18 months, with plans stepping up over the last six to eight months. A working group, led by 34-year-old Thompson, has been looking at what exactly players will want from the formalising of a way for the club to stay connected with their academy prospects. A grander launch is due for January and initially, United are opening the alumni group up to around 225 former players, which is those who have left since 2012, were registered over the age of 15 or for five years or more.
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It will eventually include all kinds of activities and will act as a network for those former players to tap into whenever required. It is also a helping hand from United, as the cohort for the first week proved.
Kilner, 19, is on the road to recovery after a 10-month absence with a broken ankle suffered while at Oldham.
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