PAUL GRECH gets the low-down on the Barca youth production line that is the envy of the world

THERE are few clubs as fascinating as Barcelona. Not only do they play the best football on the planet but they've been incredibly successful with it. Yet the real admiration for them does not stem from that but from the make up of their team; it regularly includes seven or eight players who have been with the club since childhood.

Barcelona's success in this respect is often attributed to a good youth system but, whilst fundamentally true, that is a simplistic way of looking at it. Barcelon...