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The likelihood of Steve Anthrobus playing for Chelsea looms ever closer with the news that the seed of Master Bates has made an "arrangement" with those corporate whores of Llansantffraid, otherwise known as Total Network Solutions, or TNS for short. Whilst this may be good news for Chelsea youngsters who would otherwise be knocking around the youth team or, if they're very lucky, the reserves whilst waiting for the next foreign star to jump ahead of them in the pecking order, as it means that they could get some slightly meaningful match practice, it is much less good news for the TNS players and supporters. United fans might care to cast their minds back to when it looked like we could have become a feeder club for Juventus. If we had gone down that route it is likely that the crop of Italian teenagers who we would have been grooming for future stardom in the Scudetta would have meant that the likes of Chris Hackett, Dean Whitehead, Paul Powell and the other promising youngsters that United quite rightly has a reputation for producing would never have had the chance to come through the ranks. Feeder club status only works for the club that is being fed, not the club that provides the fodder. Read about this latest manifestation of the ruination of football on Ananova.

Labels: Chelsea, Juventus, Steve Anthrobus, TNS