Four years ago, three men in their early twenties in Brendon Shabani, Jamie Politt and Eni Shabani built a grassroots football team from scratch. Their mission: to help young talent who lost their way find a route back into professional football.
Little did they envisage that four years later, one of those players, in Iliman Ndiaye, would have made his debut in the Premier League and travelling to Qatar to play in the World Cup.
But things weren’t always straightforward.
