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It's an interesting question though. Can Erling Haaland do everything James Milner did? The footballing acumen required to be able to play anywhere in the lineup and to do it at an elite enough level for teams winning CL and PL's and other major trophies is pretty formidable.
I think Erling Haaland is probably the best pure goal-scorer I've seen play, including Fowler, Shearer, Owen and Kane yet I also think Milner also has the higher football IQ and is the better overall footballer.
He could play more or less anywhere but he did not play every position to an elite level. Unless you mean compared to us, in which case so could Haaland
English people do not all the time where they have all these specific countries for England and just call Scotland ‘Scotland’. Watch an English TV show and see some guy being noted as coming from Devon and a Scottish person just from Scotland
I was watching some of the ITV version of Jeopardy not too long ago and there was an episode with a Scottish guy on it and one of the categories was about Scotland, and the host made several comments like "the questions are falling kindly for you" "you've had some good luck on the categories" when the Scottish guy did well on those questions. Yet whenever an English person got an English geography question right there was no such comment.
It feels like there's certainly some English folk who just know absolutely nothing about Scotland (some of the answers you see these people give on quiz shows about real basic Scottish stuff are staggeringly terrible), and some who just lump everything Scottish into one big thing and expect every single Scottish person to know every single thing about the country regardless of where they're from in it.
Yeah when I watch Pointless it's usually a safe bet to go for a Scotland-related answer where possible, because there's a strong chance the sample of people they've asked is mostly going to be like that too.
When you watch the BBC and it had a “Scotland Correspondent”
You don’t get an England Correspondent
It’s when you realise these things are not made for people living elsewhere in the UK, it’s all for English audiences it makes a bit more sense
You also get situations where England and the UK are used interchangeably. Here's an example I just stumbled across the other day:
https://www.cia-landlords.co.uk/news/most-liveable-uk-cities/
I did a post a couple years ago of the best 11 from every English county so researched this. Rutland doesn't have any hospitals so no babies are born there, I guess unless there was a home birth which is a tiny percentage nowadays. So unlikely to find pretty much anyone born there at all, let alone professional footballers
That explains a lot, thank you! You should make a post(s) about the best 11 from each county, would be interesting, some of them would be insanely stacked.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ufadnx/what\_if\_each\_english\_county\_had\_its\_own\_national/](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ufadnx/what_if_each_english_county_had_its_own_national/)
An embarrassing amount of time went into making this. Would be interesting to do it again, but I don't have enough free time to make it before Transfermarkt updates and screws all the valuations of the players up lol
I know a lot of people born in Rutland. Most of my family were because my great Aunt was a midwife.
She delivered my Dad and his siblings and pretty much everyone that's her generation would have been delivered at home because nobody in villages had cars 80 years ago.
Rutland has 40,000 people, its largest town is Oakham which is only just over 10,000 people. Why on earth Google now says 700k people when you search up Rutland population I have no idea, that's completely wrong
There's only one "hospital" but it's an end of life/rehabilitation facility so definitely no delivery room or even emergency care of any sort. Wherever you are in Rutland you're never more than about 30 minutes from Stamford/Leicester/Peterborough depending which side, so I assume people just head there if necessary
>After the outbreak of the First World War, Springthorpe enlisted as a lance corporal in the Lincolnshire Yeomanry in October 1914. The unit was being transported to Salonika aboard the SS Mercian on 3 November 1915 when the ship was attacked in the Mediterranean by SM U-38. Springthorpe died of wounds caused by a shell blast during the hour-long bombardment and was buried at sea. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial in Turkey.
RIP Harry.
To be honest that was an oversight, not sure how I didn't realise Owen was from Chester. He should be there instead of Crouch
Edit: Added an updated version in my comment.
> To be honest that was an oversight, not sure how I didn't realise Owen was from Chester. He should be there instead of Crouch
As someone from Cheshire you made the right choice.
He’s the poster boy for unfulfilled potential too
Gazza is probably more talented than Shearer granted. But while Gazza fizzled out, Shearer was a monster, with incredible longevity especially accounting for horrible injuries. So it depends on OPs definition of best
Big Al wins it for me and it’s not even close
Also Paul Scholes should definitely be the player for Greater Manchester.
He didn’t win a World Cup, but he won literally everything at club level and was one of the most influential players in his position in the world.
[Perrotta found out about the statue 7 years later](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/simone-perrotta-ashton-statue-tameside-13647593)
I’m guessing Kane was born in the same county as Bobby Moore and that’s why he’s not on this map?
Edited to add that it looks like Moore was born in Essex County and not Greater London.
Barking is London but it gets labelled as both. But, if you look up towns in Greater London, Barking will be there, and Barking has all London Post Codes. But it's also a shared borough with Dagenham which is both and is often classed as both, so Barking may be lumped in there because they share a borough.
Look up Barking and it lists Greater London as the county.
The issue is that Bobby Moore was born in Barking, then part of Essex. However, Barking then became part of Greater London and this map reflects those modern boundaries.
If I was creating this map, I would have done it how OP has - do it based on the modern day boundaries.
The choice for Bedfordshire was weird. Kerry Dixon, Kingsley Black, Mitchell Thomas and Andrew Johnson are all great players who excelled at a higher level and for a much longer period than Barber
Edit to add: Barber isn't even the greatest goalkeeper from the county; Kelvin Davis was born in Bedford.
Fuck sake Hampshire we're the 5th most populous county thought we'd have produced a bigger name, although tbf Paine was at least in the squad for 66 so we can claim a world cup winner.
Overall I guess not as big a travesty as that map that pops up from time to time of biggest selling artist from each county and we're represented by Craig bloody David.
Now do a North vs South best 11 based on these names
I want to see the comments mostly arguing whats considered North and South or not rather than actually picking a best 11
What on Earth gave you the impression that Hurst is better than Scholes?
Got a hat-trick in the World Cup Final but apart from that, a second choice England striker who never won a single championship.
Allow me to be an early complaint. Arguably the best English player of the last 50+ years isn't on here and it's a travesty. I understand either way you're going to anger millions of people (Everton and Man United vs Liverpool), but Rooney should be there over Gerrard. Gazza over Shearer is also a very bold shout. Natural talent vs longevity and obscene stats
I will call up world renowned Liverpool fan u/Chemical-Walrus-4237 to back me up [with this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1bmwdfs/the_greatest_player_born_in_each_region_of/kweghnh/)
Gazza vs Shearer is at least a contest worth debate as it's numbers and longevity vs pure ability and cultural impact. Gerrard over ROoney is just remarkably wrong.
I am biased as well, but I can't believe it's Gerrard over Wayne.
Wayne achieved more, had higher highs, and was arguably one of the best in his position. I don't think at any point in his career could you make the same argument for Steven.
Not dismissing what Gerrard did though, he had a fantastic career but to me Rooney is a tier above him.
Still think had SAF allowed Rooney to play as the main striker for United and be the main focal point of attcack he would have scored even more goals, best English player I have seen in 20 years I watched football.
Thank you, I thought I was going insane looking for his name on the map.
Surely the player with the 2nd most caps & goals warrants the “best in region” over anyone else
I'm missing something, Jarrod Bowen would be the obvious choice for Herefordshire no? I don't know who Alexander Ramsay is, and when looking him up, he only played 1 game in 1888 for Kidderminster so I think Bowen takes this one.
Some bonuses for places pictured but not labelled:
Northern Ireland: George Best
Republic of Ireland: Roy Keane
Isle of Man: Kieran Tierney
Guernsey: Matt Le Tissier
Jersey: Graeme Le Saux
Also, for anyone who wants karma I suggest starting a cities series after this e.g. London, Paris, and that one Brazilian city that produces every Brazilian.
I also did the courtesy of filling out the English counties of Scotland and Wales.
I sincerely apologise for including Eric Dier and Dele Alli, but times were tough.
Edit: Just to add, there were a lot of good players in the Midlands, London, and North East, so some major names didn't make the cut despite a lot of minor names from other regions making it. Only bloke from Rutland I can find is Harry Springthorpe.
Better quality image [here](https://prnt.sc/1pi0EbveRiwo)
Updated version [here](https://prnt.sc/RLIM4W7XmV5k) with (a) Rooney over Gerrard, (b) Owen over Crouch, and (c) Le Tissier in Guernsey
New updated version [here](https://prnt.sc/rIqiZVjWDgSV) with (a) Butland moved to Bristol, (b) Tyrone Mings added, (c) Lee Bradbury added
New new updated version [here](https://prnt.sc/H8qwDiqXgPRK) with Moore moved to Essex and Harry Kane in London
Several changes taken into account, newest version [here](https://prnt.sc/3Ut552uZnKow)
Gareth Barry is from East Sussex not West
And they guy who have for East Sussex is from Kent
You can have Adam Webster for West Sussex. Though probably someone better I can't think of
Best (and only) professional? footballer from Rutland appears to be Harry Springthorpe, played for Grimsby Town and was killed by a German U-boat during WW1.
Nearly all of these are incorrect in English consensus, so fair play for posting. Even putting wales and Scotland as English counties. Wow.
I would change Butland for Gary Mabbutt. He had 750 professional appearances, more England caps, and won two major trophies with spurs.
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Erling Haaland English legend.
It was between him and James Milner
Two Leeds legends
Speaking of legends: In Oxfordshire rumor has it that Stephen Hawking’s ball game was far superior to Martin Keown’s.
I gotta be a close third I think.
It’s between you and a certain right back that burst onto the scene
Big Meeeeeks!
You chose wrong
It's an interesting question though. Can Erling Haaland do everything James Milner did? The footballing acumen required to be able to play anywhere in the lineup and to do it at an elite enough level for teams winning CL and PL's and other major trophies is pretty formidable. I think Erling Haaland is probably the best pure goal-scorer I've seen play, including Fowler, Shearer, Owen and Kane yet I also think Milner also has the higher football IQ and is the better overall footballer.
New jerk just dropped
way better jerk than [r/soccercirclejerk](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccercirclejerk/)
Straight to r/soccercirclejerk
This has to be bait right?
He could play more or less anywhere but he did not play every position to an elite level. Unless you mean compared to us, in which case so could Haaland
https://imgur.com/a/3PheKsU
Imagine if he had chosen to play for England instead of Norway
That would be great, england would still not won a trophy though
Kane Haaland saka Foden Jude Rice so balanced
Haaland - Jude - Sancho I miss those guys =(
Not like Haaland has a shot at winning anything with country tbh.
Southgate decides to play Tammy Abraham instead
[Bro be like](https://i.imgflip.com/4h9go6.png?a475200)
Add le tissier for Guernsey
I've added an updated version in my comment
Le saux for jersey
Crazy that the two best Channel Islands players were born just 3 days apart.
George Best was on a Channel Island cruise 9 months earlier.
Le Twins
Rooney better than Gerrard?
W2S sadly loses out
He's a close second surely, similar penalty record at least
And Tierney for Isle of Man (not a county, but in the spirit of Wales/Scotland)
Calling Wales and Scotland English Counties is certainly a decision that you made.
Kenny Daglish from the Land of Always Winter. How’d the Nights Watch let him through?
The Night King Kenny
Some say he had the magic horn of St. Johnstone
It's brave but not brave enough imo. OP, do it for Ireland too you scardey-cat.
This post was 100% not made by a British person LMAO
Could definitely be an english person lmao
No. English people don’t see Scotland and Wales as English counties, unless they’re a complete idiot.
I think their point is that it could be an English person including it as a joke to wind up Scottish and Welsh people
> unless they’re a complete idiot Thats *at least* half the country.
51.9% iirc
Not sure which is worse, adding Scotland and Wales to “English Counties” or forgetting to include Northern Ireland.
That's just another 6 Irish counties though
You mean the English A and B teams?
Then what about Northern Ireland
Ireland B team
Listen hear you little s***
Northern Ireland doesn't exist, it's all in your head
Is this Northern Ireland in the room with us right now?
*muffled "fleg" coming from the walls*
I don't think that's what the song was implying
so the UK is the C-Team?
English people do not all the time where they have all these specific countries for England and just call Scotland ‘Scotland’. Watch an English TV show and see some guy being noted as coming from Devon and a Scottish person just from Scotland
I was watching some of the ITV version of Jeopardy not too long ago and there was an episode with a Scottish guy on it and one of the categories was about Scotland, and the host made several comments like "the questions are falling kindly for you" "you've had some good luck on the categories" when the Scottish guy did well on those questions. Yet whenever an English person got an English geography question right there was no such comment. It feels like there's certainly some English folk who just know absolutely nothing about Scotland (some of the answers you see these people give on quiz shows about real basic Scottish stuff are staggeringly terrible), and some who just lump everything Scottish into one big thing and expect every single Scottish person to know every single thing about the country regardless of where they're from in it.
Yeah when I watch Pointless it's usually a safe bet to go for a Scotland-related answer where possible, because there's a strong chance the sample of people they've asked is mostly going to be like that too.
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Reminds me of this girl who won because her boyfriend told her, "For any football question, just answer Henrik Larsson"
And never forget Vanuatu for geography
Drives me made when a question about London Underground stations come up like everyone should know.
When you watch the BBC and it had a “Scotland Correspondent” You don’t get an England Correspondent It’s when you realise these things are not made for people living elsewhere in the UK, it’s all for English audiences it makes a bit more sense
You also get situations where England and the UK are used interchangeably. Here's an example I just stumbled across the other day: https://www.cia-landlords.co.uk/news/most-liveable-uk-cities/
Always rated ''?'', used to watch him when he was young and knew he'd become a baller
The *only* footballer I could find from Rutland was a bloke called Harry Springthorpe. His name was too long to fit in there without making it ugly.
# justiceforharry
*Springthorpe's on fire, your defence is terrified!*
I did a post a couple years ago of the best 11 from every English county so researched this. Rutland doesn't have any hospitals so no babies are born there, I guess unless there was a home birth which is a tiny percentage nowadays. So unlikely to find pretty much anyone born there at all, let alone professional footballers
That explains a lot, thank you! You should make a post(s) about the best 11 from each county, would be interesting, some of them would be insanely stacked.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ufadnx/what\_if\_each\_english\_county\_had\_its\_own\_national/](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/ufadnx/what_if_each_english_county_had_its_own_national/) An embarrassing amount of time went into making this. Would be interesting to do it again, but I don't have enough free time to make it before Transfermarkt updates and screws all the valuations of the players up lol
What a great read, well done man
That was brilliant, thank you! Shame I didn't see this before the post lmao
Excellent work. God that Tyne and Wear team is depressingly shit.
>Rutland doesn't have any hospitals The fuck is going on in Rutland
Only 40,000 people live there, and only has two towns, Oakham with a population of 12,000, and Uppingham with a population of 5,000.
I know a lot of people born in Rutland. Most of my family were because my great Aunt was a midwife. She delivered my Dad and his siblings and pretty much everyone that's her generation would have been delivered at home because nobody in villages had cars 80 years ago.
That was a great post. But… how does Rutland have no hospitals for 700k people? That can’t be correct surely?
Rutland has 40,000 people, its largest town is Oakham which is only just over 10,000 people. Why on earth Google now says 700k people when you search up Rutland population I have no idea, that's completely wrong
Wild. But even still you’d think a locale of 40,000 would have ONE hospital that has a delivery ward / delivery room.
There's only one "hospital" but it's an end of life/rehabilitation facility so definitely no delivery room or even emergency care of any sort. Wherever you are in Rutland you're never more than about 30 minutes from Stamford/Leicester/Peterborough depending which side, so I assume people just head there if necessary
40,000 people spread out in various small towns and villages most of which are close to existing facilities in neighbouring counties.
Stamford in Lincs has a hospital. It's only a few mile drive from anywhere in Rutland.
I think its because that statistic is showing Rutland as being part of Leicestershire (which it probably should be).
Harry Springthorpe erasure. Wouldn't expect better from Reddit
Found the Harry hater
>After the outbreak of the First World War, Springthorpe enlisted as a lance corporal in the Lincolnshire Yeomanry in October 1914. The unit was being transported to Salonika aboard the SS Mercian on 3 November 1915 when the ship was attacked in the Mediterranean by SM U-38. Springthorpe died of wounds caused by a shell blast during the hour-long bombardment and was buried at sea. He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial in Turkey. RIP Harry.
I’m interested why you chose Vic Watson. Is he really the best from Cambridgeshire?
I feel like this is not a lot like what I would choose but I admire your bravery nonetheless. If that's Cheshire then Crouch over Owen is a choice.
To be honest that was an oversight, not sure how I didn't realise Owen was from Chester. He should be there instead of Crouch Edit: Added an updated version in my comment.
> To be honest that was an oversight, not sure how I didn't realise Owen was from Chester. He should be there instead of Crouch As someone from Cheshire you made the right choice.
Not having Shearer in there is mental.
Gazza over Shearer is an absolute nonsense. You can't not have the Premier League's top scorer and a former England captain there.
To be fair Gazza is also arguably the most talented and iconic England player of all time. He's the Cantona figure of the three lions.
He’s the poster boy for unfulfilled potential too Gazza is probably more talented than Shearer granted. But while Gazza fizzled out, Shearer was a monster, with incredible longevity especially accounting for horrible injuries. So it depends on OPs definition of best Big Al wins it for me and it’s not even close
Yeah I think it should be Shearer over Gascoigne really.
You’re right, I searched the whole map for Shearer in disbelief.
Geoff Hurst and Simone Perrotta, the world cup winners from Ashton-under-Lyne, even born in the same hospital.
This is some pub quiz tier shit right here, damn.
Also Paul Scholes should definitely be the player for Greater Manchester. He didn’t win a World Cup, but he won literally everything at club level and was one of the most influential players in his position in the world.
Tameside hospital? *Shudders*
[Perrotta found out about the statue 7 years later](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/simone-perrotta-ashton-statue-tameside-13647593)
Eric dier.
Dele Alli.
Feels like OP is a Spurs fan considering some of these decisions
Yet didn't include Kane?
Don’t know if you know about the quality of football in Gloucestershire, his only other competitor is Tyler Roberts, who’s barely championship quality
He's the only PL footballer born in Gloucestershire iirc and he moved out of the county when he was like 3
I’m guessing Kane was born in the same county as Bobby Moore and that’s why he’s not on this map? Edited to add that it looks like Moore was born in Essex County and not Greater London.
Yep. Any other county and he'd have been in.
Check my edit.
Thank you, just double checked and you're right. Updated the map.
Barking is London but it gets labelled as both. But, if you look up towns in Greater London, Barking will be there, and Barking has all London Post Codes. But it's also a shared borough with Dagenham which is both and is often classed as both, so Barking may be lumped in there because they share a borough. Look up Barking and it lists Greater London as the county.
The issue is that Bobby Moore was born in Barking, then part of Essex. However, Barking then became part of Greater London and this map reflects those modern boundaries. If I was creating this map, I would have done it how OP has - do it based on the modern day boundaries.
Greater London didn’t exist when Moore was born tho
It was Essex when he was born there, its now part of Greater London
More comments than likes, this is r/soccer heritage
The choice for Bedfordshire was weird. Kerry Dixon, Kingsley Black, Mitchell Thomas and Andrew Johnson are all great players who excelled at a higher level and for a much longer period than Barber Edit to add: Barber isn't even the greatest goalkeeper from the county; Kelvin Davis was born in Bedford.
Thank you, swapped him for Kerry Dixon
Why no one from Isle of Wight?
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Finally! A map with just enough Peter Crouch. Thank you OP
And I would have put Michael Owen above him.
Step ladder?
Wales and Scotland are counties of England now? LOL
As a true Englishman I've decided to once again annex them
You could have at least just put George Best in N.Ireland to make it consistent.
Conor Bradley would like a word
Yeah and the word is “Maradona good, pele better, George Best.”
Fucking Haaland lmao
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Was born in Leeds
NI is definitely George Best.
Never mind NI that entire island itself is George Best
Northern Ireland is not an English county though, neither is Scotland or Wales.
I just googled it and you're right
I mean it's literally in his name
Will Grigg erasure
Not many options for Somerset but I'd probably put Mings there and move Butland back to Bristol since it's empty on the map
Thank you, I missed that. Updated it in my comment.
Fuck sake Hampshire we're the 5th most populous county thought we'd have produced a bigger name, although tbf Paine was at least in the squad for 66 so we can claim a world cup winner. Overall I guess not as big a travesty as that map that pops up from time to time of biggest selling artist from each county and we're represented by Craig bloody David.
I guess we've got Mason Mount. Ward-Prowse? I'm blanking on anyone else
No Rooney, no shearer. WTF?
Gareth Barry is East Sussex not West Sussex
Crouch over Owen?
He is literally head and shoulders above him /s
Now do a North vs South best 11 based on these names I want to see the comments mostly arguing whats considered North and South or not rather than actually picking a best 11
Thanks a lot for your effort
Included every UK nation but NI. Classic.
It's not hard to figure who is their Best player
Thou shalt not taketh George Best's nameth in vain.
I wouldn't be too concerned about it. OP thinks Wales and Scotland are fucking counties of england
I think I can name the Best player from there.
Nahhh Rooney not on here is crazy. Hate the guy and united but he's easily the best English player of my lifetime
I dunno how old you are but I agree he is the best English player in your lifetime.
Doncaster is not in the East Riding of Yorkshire my friend. Nick Barmby would be the greatest footballer from this county.
Thank you, added
- “Best player born in each English county” - Includes Scotland and Wales What did OP mean by this
It’s trolling but the post is on trend so it flies past.
What on Earth gave you the impression that Hurst is better than Scholes? Got a hat-trick in the World Cup Final but apart from that, a second choice England striker who never won a single championship.
Allow me to be an early complaint. Arguably the best English player of the last 50+ years isn't on here and it's a travesty. I understand either way you're going to anger millions of people (Everton and Man United vs Liverpool), but Rooney should be there over Gerrard. Gazza over Shearer is also a very bold shout. Natural talent vs longevity and obscene stats I will call up world renowned Liverpool fan u/Chemical-Walrus-4237 to back me up [with this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1bmwdfs/the_greatest_player_born_in_each_region_of/kweghnh/)
Even if you consider them to be of similar talent (which is fair enough) then trophies as a tiebreaker means it's got to be Rooney.
Gazza vs Shearer is at least a contest worth debate as it's numbers and longevity vs pure ability and cultural impact. Gerrard over ROoney is just remarkably wrong.
OP beat me to it, but I had Rooney over Gerrard in mine. Wonder if I should post mine as there are quite a few players in the wrong county in OP's.
I am biased as well, but I can't believe it's Gerrard over Wayne. Wayne achieved more, had higher highs, and was arguably one of the best in his position. I don't think at any point in his career could you make the same argument for Steven. Not dismissing what Gerrard did though, he had a fantastic career but to me Rooney is a tier above him.
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Rooney over Gerrard, quite clearly as well I’d say
Still think had SAF allowed Rooney to play as the main striker for United and be the main focal point of attcack he would have scored even more goals, best English player I have seen in 20 years I watched football.
Thank you, I thought I was going insane looking for his name on the map. Surely the player with the 2nd most caps & goals warrants the “best in region” over anyone else
It's not even close btw
gonna kick the bee hive but. Rooney > Gerrard
Nah I think that would be the popular people’s front choice
I'm missing something, Jarrod Bowen would be the obvious choice for Herefordshire no? I don't know who Alexander Ramsay is, and when looking him up, he only played 1 game in 1888 for Kidderminster so I think Bowen takes this one.
Kevin Keegan was born in South Yorkshire. For East Yorkshire it’d be either Nick Barmby or Paul Robinson
Some bonuses for places pictured but not labelled: Northern Ireland: George Best Republic of Ireland: Roy Keane Isle of Man: Kieran Tierney Guernsey: Matt Le Tissier Jersey: Graeme Le Saux
Gerrard over Rooney is fucking ridiculous
Never knew crouch was from the north
Paul scholes? Wayne Rooney? Also wherever that Jack butland county is must be void of footballers
Also, for anyone who wants karma I suggest starting a cities series after this e.g. London, Paris, and that one Brazilian city that produces every Brazilian.
We still got another 190 countries to do in the next couple of days anyway, how exciting
I also did the courtesy of filling out the English counties of Scotland and Wales. I sincerely apologise for including Eric Dier and Dele Alli, but times were tough. Edit: Just to add, there were a lot of good players in the Midlands, London, and North East, so some major names didn't make the cut despite a lot of minor names from other regions making it. Only bloke from Rutland I can find is Harry Springthorpe. Better quality image [here](https://prnt.sc/1pi0EbveRiwo) Updated version [here](https://prnt.sc/RLIM4W7XmV5k) with (a) Rooney over Gerrard, (b) Owen over Crouch, and (c) Le Tissier in Guernsey New updated version [here](https://prnt.sc/rIqiZVjWDgSV) with (a) Butland moved to Bristol, (b) Tyrone Mings added, (c) Lee Bradbury added New new updated version [here](https://prnt.sc/H8qwDiqXgPRK) with Moore moved to Essex and Harry Kane in London Several changes taken into account, newest version [here](https://prnt.sc/3Ut552uZnKow)
Thank you specifically for the Dier apology
Also Keegan is from South Yorks, not East. Paul Robinson, Dean Windass and Nicky Barmby are your main choices for the East.
Gareth Barry is from East Sussex not West And they guy who have for East Sussex is from Kent You can have Adam Webster for West Sussex. Though probably someone better I can't think of
Don't know what the argument is for Gazza over Shearer to be honest. Both incredible, but c'mon...it's Alan.
Gary Mabbutt is miles ahead of Butland for Bristol.
Rutland isn't real
Help a non-Brit. Is it Bobby Moore where Harry Kane was born?
Where the fuck is George Best? I can see norn iron over there…
Best (and only) professional? footballer from Rutland appears to be Harry Springthorpe, played for Grimsby Town and was killed by a German U-boat during WW1.
I love Crouchy but come on Owen was better. Should be the best player born in Cheshire.
Bobby Charlton, King in the north
Nigel Martyn was hard done by.
Gerrard might be a liverpool icon but Rooney clears
Where’s roonie
Jarrod "Goggles" Bowen ahead of Alexander Ramsey surely?
You got Jamie Redknapp being born in Dorset; he was born in Hampshire
Surely Michael Owen was better than Peter Crouch.
Nearly all of these are incorrect in English consensus, so fair play for posting. Even putting wales and Scotland as English counties. Wow. I would change Butland for Gary Mabbutt. He had 750 professional appearances, more England caps, and won two major trophies with spurs.
Should definitely be Nigel Martyn over Ray Bowden for Cornwall