Such players used to be rife, here's a few who played their most games and scored their most goals for the teams they began with. Back then in the late 70's early 80's, those teams were who they were mostly associated with, today, with the passing of time, managerial careers, those same names maybe not so much* but what interested me is that a lot more teams 'grew' their own, maybe not to the levels of a Harry Kane but to at least the sort of numbers that'd have them linked to moves elsewhere every week in today's market
*Trevor Francis didn't play that many times for Forest but scored the winner in a European Cup Final so maybe he's better known for that to the whippersnappers, or even for being a manager/pundit
Trevor Francis started at Birmingham
Geoff Hurst at West Ham
Tony Cottee at West Ham
Gary Lineker at Leicester
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge at Bayern Munich (thrown in for a laugh)
But look at modern football and as has been said................
Anyway, at the very least this is a nice little stroll down memory lane for the old farts on SC
haha, he was decent, I had a lot of time for him“Befnal” boy Mark Falco, scored quite a few but was often in the shadow of a pair of our strikers in the early 80’s whose names escape me
Come to think of it, didn't he score a winner (on the turn) against Bayern Munich to help knock them out of Europe?“Befnal” boy Mark Falco, scored quite a few but was often in the shadow of a pair of our strikers in the early 80’s whose names escape me
Going back even further, local Lad Jackie Milburn scored 177 times for Newcastle during his 14 years at St James' Park.Such players used to be rife, here's a few who played their most games and scored their most goals for the teams they began with. Back then in the late 70's early 80's, those teams were who they were mostly associated with, today, with the passing of time, managerial careers, those same names maybe not so much* but what interested me is that a lot more teams 'grew' their own, maybe not to the levels of a Harry Kane but to at least the sort of numbers that'd have them linked to moves elsewhere every week in today's market
*Trevor Francis didn't play that many times for Forest but scored the winner in a European Cup Final so maybe he's better known for that to the whippersnappers, or even for being a manager/pundit
Trevor Francis started at Birmingham
Geoff Hurst at West Ham
Tony Cottee at West Ham
Gary Lineker at Leicester
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge at Bayern Munich (thrown in for a laugh)
But look at modern football and as has been said................
Anyway, at the very least this is a nice little stroll down memory lane for the old farts on SC
He wasn't from Barcelona tho. The thread is about local boys done good, I assume.Lesser known guy from Spanish league called Messi joined Barca youth team at 13
Yes I'd say Teddy counts.Does Teddy Sheringham count? Millwall apprentice who went on to score 93 goals for them. He's from the same city as Millwall but London tends to get broken up in a way other British cities don't. Does a North East Londoner playing for a South East London club count as a local lad?
Yes he can be included.Does Shearer t Newcastle count, despite his professional career starting in Southampton? Otherwise he's as Geordie as you get.