who produces the best players

[O Fenomeno]

Thuram

Cannavaro

Nesta

Stam

Maldini

Baresi

Lucio

Thiago Silva

Puyol

[O Fenomeno]

man spent 8 years in reals youth academy ...that counts!

Read the opening post

Now you see what I mean about Forum Madness

[O Fenomeno]

And neither would Raul so....

I didn't say he would but I did say he is more talented than any London born player which is true

[Guest Diddybob]

Batistuta

Eto'o

Ronaldo

Henry

Shevchenko

Romario

Van Basten

[Guest Diddybob]

And neither would Raul so....

I didn't say he would but I did say he is more talented than any London born player which is true

 

He is not more talented than Hoddle or Ferdinand.

[Horatio Caine]

man spent 8 years in reals youth academy ...that counts!

Read the opening post

Now you see what I mean about Forum Madness

the opening post was eng based only

 

n since mata came out the madrid camp i think its only fair hes included

[Agony]

According to this it's London(ignore the title, they broke up London into boroughs)

Liverpool tops footballers' birthplace league

12:52PM GMT 08 Mar 2011

The city on the Mersey has produced more top-flight footballers than any other English provincial city since the birth of the Premier League in 1992, a new analysis has found.

Its tally of 62 players who have gone on to appear in the top flight beats the 55 score of second-placed Birmingham, and for once knocks rival Manchester, in third place with 42 players, off its perch.

Here is the full table:

Top Premier League birthplaces

Liverpool – 62

Birmingham – 55

Manchester – 42

Sheffield – 31

Lambeth – 30

Nottingham – 29

Middlesbrough – 26

Leeds – 21

Bristol – 18

Lewisham – 17

Southwark – 16

Wandsworth – 15

Westminster – 15

Newcastle-upon-Tyne – 15

Leicester – 14

Enfield – 14

Greenwich – 14

Hammersmith & Fulham – 14

Islington – 14

Newham – 14

Waltham Forest – 14

Sunderland – 14

Havering – 13

Tower Hamlets – 13

Gatehead – 12

Croydon – 12

Newham – 12

Derby – 11

Southampton – 11

Hackney – 10

Reading – 10

English counties, and the number of Premier League footballers per 100,000 population; highest and lowest.

Highest

County Durham 8.70

North Yorkshire 7.69

Merseyside 6.59

Berkshire 5.97

Tyne and Wear 5.06

Nottinghamshire 4.89

Greater Manchester 4.42

Northumberland 4.18

Bristol 4.16

London 4.15

Lowest

Dorset 1.24

Buckinghamshire 1.21

Somerset 1.15

Cornwall 1.13

Herefordshire 1.12

East Sussex 0.98

Norfolk 0.94

Gloucestershire 0.85

Kent 0.64

West Sussex 0.50

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/8368474/Liverpool-tops-footballers-birthplace-league.html

Liverpool is top of the footballers' birthplace league

9:30PM GMT 05 Mar 2011

Its teams may be stranded mid-table in the Premier League this season, but there is one football league in which Liverpool is still top.

The city on the Mersey has produced more top-flight footballers than any other English provincial city since the birth of the Premier League in 1992, a new analysis has found.

Its tally of 62 players who have gone on to appear in the top flight beats the 55 score of second-placed Birmingham, and for once knocks rival Manchester, in third place with 42 players, off its perch.

The roster of past and present Liverpudlian footballers in the top flight includes Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, from Liverpool's Croxteth district, and Robbie Fowler, the striker who enjoyed a trophy-laden career at Anfield and who grew up in Toxteth.

The finding is likely to please fans of the city's two top flight clubs – Liverpool FC, currently 7th in the Premier League table, and Everton, now 10th.

The analysis of the 1,383 English-born players who have appeared in the Premier League was carried out by the website TrueKnowledge.com, which uses specially-developed software to trawl the internet for answers to questions put by users.

The idea for the football study came from Matthew Mason, 33, a TrueKnowledge programmer – and, coincidentally, a lifelong Liverpool fan.

He said: "It started when we were having a discussion about where the hotbeds of footballing talent were in England.

"I am pleased with the result. I am not too sure that Liverpool can lay much claim to any sort of victory at the moment, but we will take anything we can get."

To provide a fair comparison, only footballers born within the boundaries of the City of Liverpool – population 435,000 – were included in its total, not those from neighbouring Merseyside boroughs such as Sefton or Knowsley. The same rule was applied to the cities of Manchester (pop 464,000) and Birmingham (pop. 1 million).

For the same reason, London – which would have produced the most footballers, had it been considered as a whole – was broken down into its constituent boroughs. The borough which produced the most footballers was Lambeth (pop 275,000), with 30.

A further analysis of the findings, comparing English counties by the number of footballers they have produced per head of population, shows that Country Durham leads the way, with 8.7 Premier League players per 100,000 residents. By this measure, North Yorkshire is second (7.7) and Merseyside third (6.6). London (4.5) and Greater Manchester (4.4) lag behind.

Mr Mason suggested that Merseyside's success as a breeding ground for footballers was partly due to adults handing down the sense of passion and tradition generated by Everton and Liverpool's illustrious history of domestic and European triumphs.

"That has got a lot to do with it. If you are a big football fan yourself it has got to be your dream to have your kids playing for your team," he said.

Stefan Szymanski, a professor of economics specialising in football issues at the Cass Business School in London, suggested that the traditional notion that boys from working-class communities are most likely to become professional footballers may soon be out of date. With the high wages on offer, career-minded middle class parents were perhaps less likely to criticise their children for wasting their time playing football, he said.

Professor Szymanski, the co-author of Why England Lose: And Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained, said: "I suspect that there is a certain gentrification coming into football, not just amongst the supporters but among the players.

"The classic middle class argument – you'll never make any money playing football – has vanished."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/8363278/Liverpool-is-top-of-the-footballers-birthplace-league.html

[O Fenomeno]

Madrid have produced two greats

London yet to produce a great

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[Agony]

What players come from Lambeth?

[O Fenomeno]

Your typical Athletes and Bouncers

[Drift]

kevin campbell is from there.

 

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brent is slippin considering the amount of niggas here

[Lieutenant]

What players come from Lambeth?

I'm sure Scott Parker and Gibbs are from them sides

Think Albert Adomah and John bostock are from there as well

[Horatio Caine]

kevin campbell is from there.

 

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brent is slippin considering the amount of niggas here

lool tru say raheeem is the only nig!

[O Fenomeno]

I was about to ask if London have produced a striker better than Fernando Torres

I realised England alone haven't

[O Fenomeno]

Most of them are street footballers to start with

Then become robots as soon they turn pro

[Benicio del Toney]

Butragueno>>Hoddle

 

Butragueno was cold, I used to fuck with Real them times still.

 

 

But Hoddle was as technically gifted as any footballer in the last 30 years.

 

And I don't say that lightly.

 

 

Obscene technique.

[Benicio del Toney]

No-one's doubting the pedigree of Ferdinand & Lampard...but to put them on the same level of Raul, who been in the Madrid team since 17, 2nd highest goal-scorer for Spain, one of the all-time greatest scorers in damn near every club competition, regarded as one of the best players of the last 25 years...

Fam.

Come on.

 

Ferdinand came through West Ham at 17 aswell.

 

Transferred to Leeds at 20 for £18mill becoming the worlds most expensive defender.

 

Transferred to Man Utd at 22 for £30mill after a fantastic World Cup and became the worlds most expensive defender again.

 

81 caps for England, only 2nd to Ashley Cole for most caps received by a black player for England.

 

Won all the big club trophies aswell.

 

 

Ferdinand's reputation is as much to Defending as Raul's is to Striking.

[O Fenomeno]

[Benicio del Toney]

brent is slippin considering the amount of niggas here

 

If you look at the closest Pro clubs, we got QPR, Watford, those ain't top clubs so makes sense we don't produce players playing in the top tier.

 

The talent is in Brent though, said it before my school team won everything, went out in the Nationals in the 1/4's, none of us made it pro though which makes no sense because we were spanking teams all over England.

 

Every team we travelled to meet had guys playing for top Acadamies, West Ham, Forest etc... still steamrolled them but Brent is in a shit place.

[Lieutenant]

Is harlseden in Brent?

[Benicio del Toney]

Yeah.

[Lieutenant]

Yeah that place is dusty as fuck

Was there this week and it looked like everyone on road was in their house clothes

Horrible

[Guest Diddybob]

I was about to ask if London have produced a striker better than Fernando Torres

I realised England alone haven't

 

 

 

Shearer is better than Torres though.

[Guest Diddybob]

Brent is a useless place anyways, not known for anything, can't even say crime cause you man don't compare to South man in that aspect as well.