By John McCarthy

Since Neolithic man first sparked a flint and used the resulting fire to light our species’ first 5-a-side football pitches for evening fixtures, football’s remained more or less the same. Pigs’ bladders became branded latex balls and primitive war chants evolved into verses of ‘the referee is a w*nker’, but, essentially, the best teams have always strived to sign young talent capable of sealing victory on the pitch.

Then 2016 kicked in, and an entirely new playing field emerged, those simulated by EA Sport’s football video game, Fifa, seeing increasingly more clubs scout the once-maligned digital realm to snap up professional Read full story ›

Source: The Drum