'You can't win anything with kids' - or can you?

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Tom Wright asks if more resellers should be looking to hire graduates and people from outside the industry to fill the increasing number of channel vacancies

Alan Hansen was famously forced to eat his words in 1996, when his criticism of Manchester United's academy graduates on the opening day of the Premier League season backfired, with the team going ...

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