Bobby Williamson, manager of Hibernian, told The Scotsman newspaper: "Kids want to move into apartments in the cities and get places of their own, but I would prefer they stayed with their families as long as possible."
He is thinking about his players, in particular one young talent called Scott Brown, aged18. He has tried to persuade Scott's mother to keep him at home. "At the moment Scott gets fed and travels into training. When you move, you have to think about things like bills."
This is true. Life is full of bills, food, travel and other things that need sorting out. It might suit a football manager to ensure that young people are utterly focused on their on-field performance. But if it were any other job, it would be recognised as exploitative.
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