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Project Swans flourishing in a school of hard knocks at Walton & Hersham

The announcement nearly two years ago that seven 19-year-old university students – believed to be the youngest owners in world football – were to take over the proud Surrey club inevitably caused a stir.

Project Swans flourishing

By David Richardson

IT TURNS out running a Non-League club is a lot different to doing it on a video game – but it hasn’t stopped the teenagers at Walton & Hersham from trying.
The announcement nearly two years ago that seven 19-year-old university students – believed to be the youngest owners in world football – were to take over the proud Surrey club inevitably caused a stir.
“‘It’s just a university project’, ‘They’re too young’,” recalls Calogero Scannella, the club’s managing director-cum-club secretary and second-year economics and finance student at Surrey University, on some o...

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