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"You go to Stoke now, they've got an unbelievable academy and unbelievable training centre. Lots of high network individuals pumping a lot of money into the football club. "It was different back when, when we were there early 90s, at the end of The Troubles. There was stuff going on. We weren't really looked upon necessarily with a great fondness or affection. You know - 'These are Irish boys are coming into our club to take away our jobs' and that type of stuff. "So there was a little bit of negativity and that sort of stigma that you were Irish in England at that time. We're talking about early 90s. So 30-odd years ago.""In the past 10 years," Long added, "it shows you how much we've travelled, how much different it is for the modern day player to go away. They've got player liaison officers, they got people that look after them, welfare officers within the academy systems. "It was sink or swim. It made you grow up very quickly. I think my mom would have said that to my sisters that he went away, a boy and came back a man." https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/1666806749612118020
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