RicME85 Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Sky have calculated the distance each player from the top 4 leagues has travelled from their place of birth to join their current clubs. Surprise surprise, Manchester City are the least local team in England. Most Local? AFC Wimbledon. Where do Derby stand I hear you ask....19th, didnt think that was too bad. Now thinking about this, you would expect that the bottom section of the table would be all Premiership teams wouldnt you what with the lack of English talent and the desire to sign better players from the continent or even further afield. Surprisingly Boro are 88th out of the 92 clubs Forest are 44th btw. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/10172272/premier-league-manchester-city-are-the-least-local-club-in-england Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyPride Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 I wonder whether this includes the January transfers? Camara and Olsson would up our figures a fair bit if not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 It is a totally pointless survey. All we would need to do to go from 19th to near the bottom would be to sign an Australian. A team could have 21 players that are born within a mile of the ground and then Tim Cahill and they would be in the middle of the pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 3 minutes ago, MuespachRam said: All we would need to do to go from 19th to near the bottom would be to sign an Australian. And look how that turned out for us last time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffsRam Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Australia was far enough, but what really did us was signing the alien, Earnshaw... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I wonder how long it and how many people it took to do this. And how much they got paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipad1977 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Boro have plenty of local lads in their squad. The thing that tips the club to 88th is massively down to 3 players that come from Uruguay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicME85 Posted February 20, 2016 Author Share Posted February 20, 2016 and an Aussie iirc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 And a Greek, a few spaniards, a Belgian, a Czech, an Italian and a Gambian (out on loan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITSD Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 It can't include Camara, he was born in Guinea apparently, some 4000 odd miles away. If included he'd about double our total on his own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 21 hours ago, DerbyPride said: I wonder whether this includes the January transfers? Camara and Olsson would up our figures a fair bit if not. neither if those had played 90minutes or more when the table was made, so not included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 its a skewed table anyway. A team could play 20 players with an average distance of 150miles. Then add in one player born 4000 miles away the average more than doubles to 333miles. Are they really that much less local because of 1 player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 5 minutes ago, davenportram said: its a skewed table anyway. A team could play 20 players with an average distance of 150miles. Then add in one player born 4000 miles away the average more than doubles to 333miles. Are they really that much less local because of 1 player. Or 21 players born in Derby, one player born in Sydney who moved to Derby at the age of 2 and lived there ever since and you'd be down to 40th on the table. I doubt Man City fans are kicking off because they're the 'least local'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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