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Chicken souvlaki, grilled halloumi and walks along the beach spring to mind when people visit Cyprus, but the Brentford B team’s trip to the island is far from a holiday. When Brentford closed down their academy in 2016 and stepped away from the Elite Player Performance Plan, English football’s long-term strategy for developing homegrown players, they gained control of their development teams’ fixture lists...
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