Former Chelsea youth player Dan McCarthy is the subject of this episode of Football Stories who tells Jim what it is like to be picked up by (and then) released by a prestigious Premier League academy.

Dan talks about his disappointment of being let go, the pressure that young players are under and what it was like to train along side players who went on to reach the top of the game,

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