‘It’s quite a good recipe’: how one school produced three Chelsea players | Ed Aarons

Callum Hudson-Odoi is the latest to make it into Chelsea’s first team from fee-paying Whitgift, which hosted its first football match a little over two decades ago

Whitgift School, with its manicured playing fields, is an unlikely alma mater for one of the future stars of English football. With annual fees exceeding £20,000 for day pupils and rising to nearly £38,000 for full boarding, it has traditionally been a breeding ground for a host of internationals such as rugby union’s Elliot Daly, Danny Cipriani and Marland Yarde, and cricket’s Jason Roy.

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