[Albion] Do we have the most 'local' team in the Premier League?

[hans kraay fan club]

I'm not going to bother looking at anyone else's squad to compare, but based on the following criteria:

Using only players named in the first team PL squad, and who have appeared in a first team fixture this season

How far from your ground were your players born?

I've kept it realistic, and only chosen genuine first team options (could easily have slotted in Sanders (Horsham) for example). This is the best we can come up with, I think:

-----------------------------------------------Walton (Wadebridge, 196 miles from the Amex)
Lamptey (Hillingdon, 51) / Veltman (Ijmuiden, 233) / Dunk (Brighton, 4) / Webster (Chichester, 28) / March (Eastbourne, 19)
-------------------------------Alzate (Camden, 49) / White (Poole, 81) / Lallana (St.Albans, 65)
---------------------------------------Wellbeck (Manchester, 204) / Maupay (Versailles, 175)

A total for the XI of 1,105 miles

I'd be surprised if anyone can beat it. Burnley or Palace perhaps the most likely?

And yes, Veltman was born closer to the Amex than Dan Burn (303)

 

[Wozza]

Quiet day at work?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Quiet day at work?

Yes. Need to get this kind of stuff done, as I'm furloughed for the next couple of days...

 

[AmexRuislip]

I'm not going to bother looking at anyone else's squad to compare, but based on the following criteria:

Using only players named in the first team PL squad, and who have appeared in a first team fixture this season

How far from your ground were your players born?

I've kept it realistic, and only chosen genuine first team options (could easily have slotted in Sanders (Horsham) for example). This is the best we can come up with, I think:

-----------------------------------------------Walton (Wadebridge, 196 miles from the Amex)
Lamptey (Hillingdon, 51) / Veltman (Ijmuiden, 233) / Dunk (Brighton, 4) / Webster (Chichester, 28) / March (Eastbourne, 19)
-------------------------------Alzate (Camden, 49) / White (Poole, 81) / Lallana (St.Albans, 65)
---------------------------------------Wellbeck (Manchester, 204) / Maupay (Versailles, 175)

A total for the XI of 1,105 miles

I'd be surprised if anyone can beat it. Burnley or Palace perhaps the most likely?

And yes, Veltman was born closer to the Amex than Dan Burn (303)

Almost a cosmopolitan pub team

 

[Sheebo]

In case anyone was stupid enough not to know, Adam Webster was born in Chichester

 

[*Gullsworth*]

In case anyone was stupid enough not to know, Adam Webster was born in Chichester

Noo way

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

 

[Easy 10]

I'd love it, LOVE it, if someone gave birth in a toilet at the Amex, and he grew up to play for BHA.

(0 miles).

 

[*Gullsworth*]

I'd love it, LOVE it, if someone gave birth in a toilet at the Amex, and he grew up to play for BHA.

(0 miles).

Is that an offer?

 

[Easy 10]

Is that an offer?

Once lockdown is over, I'm ruling nothing out.

 

[el punal]

I'd love it, LOVE it, if someone gave birth in a toilet at the Amex, and he grew up to play for BHA.

(0 miles).

God help anyone that was born in the gents toilet in the West Upper.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Yes. Need to get this kind of stuff done, as I'm furloughed for the next couple of days...

You seriously need to get a life, but if we're top of the table it's excellent statistical analysis

So where do we reside in the Premier league table of most 'local teams in the premier league' ?

(I bet we're top of back 5, not including keeper)

 

[Easy 10]

God help anyone that was born in the gents toilet in the West Upper.

Why would she be in the gents though

 

[Sheebo]

Why would she be in the gents though

You’ve assumed ‘her’ gender identity - not allowed anymore...

 

[Bodian]

Spurs didn't have a single English starter last night - so we'll be more local than them.

 

[theboybilly]

Palace local? Zaha was born in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivory, Benteke in Kinshasa wherever that is, and Guita in Spain. Eze was born in Greenwich though.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I thought Dunk grew up in Coldean which less than a mile from the Amex?

 

[el punal]

Why would she be in the gents though

Desperate times, desperate measures! Put it like this - nobody would want to be in the West Upper gents toilet unless the situation was . . . . desperate?

P.S. Queue for the ladies loo?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Burnley is messed up by Chris Wood scoring 11,000 miles alone.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Desperate times, desperate measures! Put it like this - nobody would want to be in the West Upper gents toilet unless the situation was . . . . desperate?

P.S. Queue for the ladies loo?

I know we hate queue jumping in this country but I would like to think our female fans would make an exception for someone about to give birth !!! A bit of Sussex moaning about the situation would be fine though.