BBC Sport takes a look at London's unlikely representative in this season's FA Youth Cup semi-finals.
Millwall are aiming to become the first EFL club since Ipswich Town in 2005 to win the FA Youth CupChelsea reached seven finals in a row, winning six, during an unprecedented period of dominance between 2012 and 2018.
"We can't offer the same facilities as some of the bigger clubs but we are really good at giving players game time and opportunities they may not get elsewhere. We feel like we treat them really well. At times, when the bigger clubs have come in, we have had to take the offer, but we have been able to retain a lot of our better players."
"You never get to know the real club until you are in it," said Fitzgerald. "People will only see and read what they want but until you actually come to a game on a Saturday, or come to the training ground for a trial, you don't know. "People are spending a lot of money on recruitment," he said. "When I started 17 years ago, everyone was aware of recruitment but not to the extent they are now. At every game you play, at no matter what age groups, from under-nines to under-21s, there are scouts from 10 clubs. And it's not just Millwall. It's everyone. Ten years ago it would have been a handful of people.
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