Team Yorkshire

Can we make a team made up of players from Yorkshire, using the same boundaries the cricket used?

Will England's biggest County produce England's greatest players?

I'll kick it off with;

1. Paul Robinson.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.Kevin Keegan.
8.
9.
10.
11.

Subs
1.
2.
3.
4
5.
6.

Manager.

 

Gordon Banks, Don Revie, Brian Clough, Deanno, Michael & Andy Dawson, Gary Cahill, Peter Beagrie just to fill in a few blanks

 

I would have David Seaman in goal.
Chilton and Deano.

 

agreed on Banks
Revie definately a no no

 

4. David Batty
8. Nick Barmby
9. Brian Clough

 

Cloughy


Some may not like it but they were fantastic players.

 

Frazier Campbell?

 

Len Shackleton. Before our time but a genius apparently.

Shackleton was forced into retirement in September 1957 after suffering an ankle injury, and became a journalist.[5]

On announcing his retirement he famously threw a penny into the air and caught it on his instep before flicking into the air and catching it in his chest pocket in front of watching journalists.

Shackleton was famous both on and off the field for his sense of humour. He used his nickname, "The Clown Prince of Soccer", in 1956 for his autobiography. One chapter of that book was The Average Director's Knowledge of Football. It consisted of a single blank page.[

 

1. Paul Robinson.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.Kevin Keegan.
8.
9.
10. Len Shackleton
11.

Subs
1.
2.
3.
4
5.
6.

Manager.

 

James Milner ?

 

Who is this team going to play? Middlesex? Lancashire?

 

I don't really think we'll manage to get them to play together, what with some of them being dead.

Could also pick an eleven from another County for them to play?

Which County has produced the best players?

 

probably Lancashire

 

I imagine Northumberland (if Newcastles still classed as in that.) or Lancashire. The London lot will be split over a few different counties.

 

How about doing one player from each county.

 

It has to be Rutland.

 

As there are about 50 counties that may be a little difficult.

 

Aye, likewise Manchester.

Reading something about Bristol City, and they lay some of their issues on not being in a football region, so it's hard to generate support. Players preferred to be loaned out around the north west as the scouts gravitated that way. I reckon Greater Manchester and Greater London, rather than the Counties they're made up from will produce a few as lads will see it as a career move, as opposed to more rural areas?

 

Gordon Banks

Mel Sterland
Jonathan Woodgate
Paul Madeley
Terry Cooper

Aaron Lennon
David Batty
Deano
Len Shackleton

Stuart Pearson
Brian Clough

Subs from: David Seaman, Richard Jobson, Kyle Walker, Emlyn Hughes, Fabian Delph, Stuart McCall, Stewart Downing, James Milner, Chris Chilton, Alan Smith, Alan Smith

Also, Micah Richards was born in Brum but grew up in Leeds and played for Leeds schools.

 

Also Strathclyde would be able to field a better team than Yorkshire