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Post by Markus on Jun 2, 2022 11:46:39 GMT
Well? If you were to list your top ten best english players (regardless of position) would all/most come from up north?
*I have no fucking idea of the cut off between t'north and the rest of the country in terms of location.
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Post by oh oooh on Jun 2, 2022 11:52:47 GMT
The best comedians come from up North, for sure.
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Post by rayge on Jun 2, 2022 12:36:36 GMT
Well? If you were to list your top ten best english players (regardless of position) would all/most come from up north? *I have no fucking idea of the cut off between t'north and the rest of the country in terms of location. no, although I don't think I could name ten current English players I like more than any others. TBH, I don't really care about any team other than Tottenham. My all-time tottenham ten wouldn't include many Englishmen, either - Argentines, Scots, two Irishmen, a German, a French guy, but as far as I can remember, no-on from north of the Mersey or Trent stands out in memory since Bobby Smith: Greaves, Hoddle, Kane, King, Chivers, Mabbutt, Perryman, all soft southerners.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2022 13:30:29 GMT
Well? If you were to list your top ten best english players (regardless of position) would all/most come from up north? *I have no fucking idea of the cut off between t'north and the rest of the country in terms of location. No is the short answer. There are probably more footballing producing areas in the North because of all the major industrial cities, whereas in the south you've mainly just got London and its outer suburbs. But you could argue the East End/Essex area has produced more major footballers than any other. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2022 13:33:57 GMT
The best comedians come from up North, for sure.  |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 2, 2022 15:52:26 GMT
I thought about the ten best English players of the last 35 years or so, roughly in line with what I can remember and I came up with....
Northern
Paul Scholes
Alan Shearer
Steven Gerrard
Paul Gascoigne
Chris Waddle
Southern
Ashley Cole
John Barnes
Tony Adams
Matt Le Tissier
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Post by blue on Jun 23, 2022 13:19:33 GMT
Well? If you were to list your top ten best english players (regardless of position) would all/most come from up north? *I have no fucking idea of the cut off between t'north and the rest of the country in terms of location. no, although I don't think I could name ten current English players I like more than any others. TBH, I don't really care about any team other than Tottenham. My all-time tottenham ten wouldn't include many Englishmen, either - Argentines, Scots, two Irishmen, a German, a French guy, but as far as I can remember, no-on from north of the Mersey or Trent stands out in memory since Bobby Smith: Greaves, Hoddle, Kane, King, Chivers, Mabbutt, Perryman, all soft southerners. No Ralph Coates, Chris Waddle, Gazza? I think I remember reading a few years ago that County Durham was still the county with the highest number of PL players per population, and there's no major urban city there. Historically you had Howard Kendall, Bob Paisley, Bryan Robson, Bobby Robson, Colin Todd, Colin Bell, Coates, Pop Robson etc all from small towns and isolated villages in some cases. |
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Post by rayge on Jun 23, 2022 13:25:23 GMT
no, although I don't think I could name ten current English players I like more than any others. TBH, I don't really care about any team other than Tottenham. My all-time tottenham ten wouldn't include many Englishmen, either - Argentines, Scots, two Irishmen, a German, a French guy, but as far as I can remember, no-on from north of the Mersey or Trent stands out in memory since Bobby Smith: Greaves, Hoddle, Kane, King, Chivers, Mabbutt, Perryman, all soft southerners. No Ralph Coates, Chris Waddle, Gazza? No, don't think so. Sure I have individual memories of incidents with Waddle and Gascoigne, but neither of them in my all-time team - they just weren't really engaged with Tottenham. And I never rated Coates at all |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2022 15:30:19 GMT
Ralph Coates is an important member of my list of "70s footballers who looked excessively old".
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Post by rayge on Jun 23, 2022 18:44:35 GMT
Ralph Coates is an important member of my list of "70s footballers who looked excessively old". It was that absurd comb-over. |
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