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

[Munkfish]

A team in the midlands might pinch it as long as they have a few English Players. Leicester might pinch it.

 

[AmexRuislip]

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.

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.

Shirley we could have a name for said baby born at the Amex
Say Harveys Barber Bloom

 

[dazzer6666]

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).

Would being conceived count ?

 

[Easy 10]

Would being conceived count ?

A bovril and a quick half time knee-trembler in the bogs ?

I'm IN (which is what I usually say to the missus)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

A bovril and a quick half time knee-trembler in the bogs ?

I'm IN (which is what I usually say to the missus)

You old romantic, you

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

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

Not Coldean, no. He went to Balfour and then Varndean.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

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

Hollingbury, I think

 

[el punal]

Would being conceived count ?

It would have to be before the 85th minute as there’s a mass withdrawal.

 

[el punal]

Shirley we could have a name for said baby born at the Amex
Say Harveys Barber Bloom

A baby bloomer!

 

[BNthree]

Is this why Maty Ryan and Mooy were shipped out: to get the mileage down??

 

[dsr-burnley]

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

He went off with an injury on Sunday and was replaced by Jay Rodriguez who was born 11,000 miles closer, in Burnley.

 

[dsr-burnley]

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)

In our usual 4-4-2:

Peacock-Farrell = Darlington = 58 miles

Bardsley = Salford = 21
Mee = Sale = 25
Tarkowski = Manchester = 22
Taylor = York = 49

McNeil = Rochdale = 13
Westwood = Nantwich = 51
Stephens = Bolton = 17
Brownhill = Warrington = 31

Barnes = Bath = 167
Rodriguez = Burnley = 0.

total = 454 miles.

Surprise !!!

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

In our usual 4-4-2:

Peacock-Farrell = Darlington = 58 miles

Bardsley = Salford = 21
Mee = Sale = 25
Tarkowski = Manchester = 22
Taylor = York = 49

McNeil = Rochdale = 13
Westwood = Nantwich = 51
Stephens = Bolton = 17
Brownhill = Warrington = 31

Barnes = Bath = 167
Rodriguez = Burnley = 0.

total = 454 miles.

Surprise !!!

If you let us have Barnes back your mileage would be much improved

 

[DavePage]

In our usual 4-4-2:

Peacock-Farrell = Darlington = 58 miles

Bardsley = Salford = 21
Mee = Sale = 25
Tarkowski = Manchester = 22
Taylor = York = 49

McNeil = Rochdale = 13
Westwood = Nantwich = 51
Stephens = Bolton = 17
Brownhill = Warrington = 31

Barnes = Bath = 167
Rodriguez = Burnley = 0.

total = 454 miles.

Surprise !!!

Same Mother, different Fathers..... but you knew that already..........(Wood, adopted)

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

So Burnley beat us, Sheffield too I reckon

 

[hans kraay fan club]

In our usual 4-4-2:

Peacock-Farrell = Darlington = 58 miles

Bardsley = Salford = 21
Mee = Sale = 25
Tarkowski = Manchester = 22
Taylor = York = 49

McNeil = Rochdale = 13
Westwood = Nantwich = 51
Stephens = Bolton = 17
Brownhill = Warrington = 31

Barnes = Bath = 167
Rodriguez = Burnley = 0.

total = 454 miles.

Surprise !!!

Yeah - not REALLY surprised. I did name you as the most likely, after all.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yeah - not REALLY surprised. I did name you as the most likely, after all.

I’m surprised they allowed a Yorkshireman in the team.

 

[dsr-burnley]

I’m surprised they allowed a Yorkshireman in the team.

We're very cosmopolitan. No-one, however unfortunate their background, is barred. We even have a southerner, and they don't get more unfortunate than that.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

We're very cosmopolitan. No-one, however unfortunate their background, is barred. We even have a southerner, and they don't get more unfortunate than that.

Yes, that's true. A veritable RAINBOW of colours and backgrounds!

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

For the youg'uns a little bit of football trivia

9 of the 11 players that won the European Cup in 1967 for Celtic were born within 10 miles of Celtic Park

Do you still have to be a Basque to play for Bilbao?