Two Chelsea stars and one Arsenal player among the footballers who attended public school.
Will Hughes
The bleach-blonde England under-21 star is just 18 and if he’d stayed in school, A-Levels would be looming. After attending Repton School in Derbyshire, midfielder maestro Hughes knows his chicken from his pheasant and wouldn’t dream of keeping cheese in the fridge.
Frank Lampard
The son of a footballer, Lamps was probably bullied at Brentwood School for being “new money” but the legendary Chelsea midfielder has eleven GCSEs, including an A* in Latin; the England star is known as ‘the Professor’ by his Blues teammates and reportedly has a higher IQ than former countdown beauty Carol Vorderman; brains Joey Barton can only dream about!
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Like Lamps, the Ox is also the son of a former pro footballer and attended St John’s School in Southsea. The Gunners winger has ten GCSEs and nearly took his A-Levels before football became a priority. ‘I did the football and his mum [Wendie, a physiotherapist] did the education,’ revealed his father Mark Chamerlain. ‘Football won out.’
Victor Moses
Chelsea winger Moses, 22, attended fee-paying Whitgift while at the Crystal Palace academy. To be fair, Moses isn’t particularly posh because Palace recommended he attend the school in Croydon, and Moses seems to have concentrated more on football than his studies.
Alex Pearce
Reading are known for having a section of middle class support so it’s only right that one of their own, Alex Pearce, attended the mega-post Oratory in Oxfordshire.