...Des Monk; Cliff Olsson Purpose This paper aims to examine the two year Modern Apprenticeship undertaken by trainees in the English professional football industry. Design/methodology/approach In the first round of this three‐year project representatives of seven English clubs were...

...Des Monk Presents some interim results, by way of an attempt to evaluate the football industry’s Modern Apprenticeship scheme, which was introduced in 1998. Theoretical context is provided by the debate between advocates of human capital theory as opposed to those favouring screening theory...