| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county 09:01 - Jan 17 with 3270 views | WeWereZombies |
We've done Town players by nation at least twice to my knowledge but I do not recall a run through of players by the county in the Home Nations (and surrounding islands). So I've done all the hard ones for you but left a few easy ones so that you can pass a few minutes filling in the gaps...
Tyrone Mings - Bath and North East Somerset
Kelvin Davis - Bedfordshire
Marcus Stewart - Bristol
Tom Adeyemi - Buckinghamshire
Mick Lambert - Cambridgeshire
David Wright - Cheshire
Christian Walton - Cornwall
Sir Bobby Robson - County Durham
Kevin Beattie - Cumbria
Russell Osman - Derbyshire
Kieffer Moore - Devon
David Best - Dorset
Neil Thompson - East Riding of Yorkshire
James Norwood - East Sussex
Sir Alf Ramsey - Essex: Becontree Hundred
Flynn Downes - Essex: Brentwood
Darren Ambrose - Essex: Harlow
Adam Tanner - Essex: Maldon
Cameron Carter-Vickers - Essex: Southend -on-Sea
Ron Wigg - Essex: Uttlesford
Cole Skuse - Gloucestershire
Lee Bracey - Greater London: Barking
Tyreeq Bakinson - Greater London: Camden
Steve Sedgley - Greater London: Enfield
Jermaine Wright - Greater London: Greenwich
Simon Milton - Greater London: Hammersmith and Fulham
Trevor Putney - Greater London: Put...Havering
Tayo Edun - Greater London: Islington
Joe Broadfoot - Greater London: Lewisham
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas - Greater London: Newham
John Lyall - Greater London: Redbridge
Dominic Samuel - Greater London: Southwark
John Compton - Greater London: Tower Hamlets
Darren Bent - Greater London: Wandsworth (or possibly Merton depending on which part of Tooting he was born in...)
Matt Elliott - Greater London: Wandsworth (if it turns out that Darren Bent is from Merton)
Paul Mariner - Greater Manchester: Bolton
Matt Holland - Greater Manchester: Bury
Danny Sonner - Greater Manchester: Wigan
Peter Morris - Hampshire
Mick Hill - Herefordshire
Jordan Roberts - Hertfordshire
Joe Pigott - Kent
Chris Makin - Lancashire
Luke Varney - Leicestershire
Jamie Clapham - Lincolnshire
Aaron Cresswell - Merseyside
Paul Goddard - Middlesex
Trevor Whymark - Norfolk: South Norfolk, Burston and Shimpling
Clive Woods - Norfolk: South Norfolk, Newton Flotman
John O’Rourke - Northamptonshire
Jackie Milburn - Northumberland
Tony Mowbray - North Yorkshire
Dave Hill - Nottinghamshire
Kevin Wilson - Oxfordshire
Dalian Atkinson - Shropshire
Lee Martin - Somerset
Frazer Richardson - South Yorkshire
Paul Cooper - Staffordshire
Basil Acres - Suffolk: Babergh
Matt Bloomfield - Suffolk: Felixstowe
Brian Talbot - Suffolk: Ipswich Borough Council
Roger Osborne - Suffolk: East Suffolk
Stuart O'Keefe - Suffolk: Mid Suffolk
James Scowcroft - Suffolk: West Suffolk
Mick Mills - Surrey
Chris Swailes - Tyne and Wear
Louie Barry - Warwickshire (OK, Sutton Coldfield is in West Midlands now but was Warwickshire up to 1974)
Sam Morsy - West Midlands
Conor Chaplin - West Sussex
Richard Naylor - West Yorkshire
Ben Thatcher - Wiltshire
Ryan Fraser - Aberdeenshire
Scott Fraser - Angus
George Burley - East Ayrshire
Billy Baxter - Fife
Alan Brazil - Glasgow City
John Wark - Lanarkshire
Neil Alexander - Midlothian
Danny Hegan - North Lanarkshire
Frank Brogan - Stirlingshire
Scott Duncan - West Dunbartonshire
Alex Mathie - West Lothian
Wes Burns - Cardiff
Emyr Huws - Carmarthenshire
Gwion Edwards - Ceredigion
Ellis Harrison - Gwent
Gavin Williams - Merthyr Tydfil
Lee Evans - Newport
Geraint Williams - Rhondda Cynon Taff
John Elsworthy - Monmouthshire
Dai Cornell - Swansea
Tom Lawrence - Wrexham
Gareth McAuley - Antrim
Bryan Hamilton - Belfast
Sean Friars - County Derry
Cloin Healy - County Down
Keiran McKenna - County Fermanagh
Allan Hunter - County Tyrone
Barry Cotter - County Clare
Damien Delaney - Cork
Tommy Carroll - Dublin
Alan Lee - Galway
Stephen Hunt - Laois
Ronan Murray - County Mayo
Jonathan Douglas - County Monaghan
Daryl Murphy - Waterford
Brett Pitman - Jersey
English counties unaccounted for: Berkshire, Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, North Somerset, Rutland, South Gloucestershire, Worcestershire
Essex large towns and boroughs: Basildon, Braintree, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Rochford, Tendring and, err, never mind the, Thurrock(s)
Greater London boroughs: City of London (not a borough), City of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Hackney, Brent, Ealing, Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton, Croydon, Bromley, Bexley, Barking and Dagenham, Waltham Forest, Haringey, Barnet, Harrow, Hillingdon
Greater Manchester boroughs: Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford
Norfolk large towns and districts: Breckland, Broadland, Great Yarmouth, KIngs Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk, Norwich
Suffolk large towns and districts: Lowestoft, Bury St. Edmunds, Haverhill, Newmarket, Forest Heath, Suffolk Coastal, Waveney
Scots counties to fill in: Argyll & Bute, Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Borders, Caithness, Clackmannanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Highland, Inverclyde, Kincardineshire, Moray, North Ayrshire, Orkney, Perth & Kinross, Renfrewshire, Shetland, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Na h-Eileanan Siar
Welsh counties: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan
Norn Irish: Armagh
Republic of Ireland: Carlow, Cavan, Donegal, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow
Other islands: Isle of Man, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Lundy
And, of course: John Lydon - Summer County...
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 09:48 - Jan 17 with 2612 views | PhilTWTD |
Gavin Williams - Merthyr Tydfil
Kevin Wilson - Oxfordshire
Barry Cotter - County Clare (apparently the only current professional from there, according to a friend and Town fan who works for the radio station there).
Not a player but Kieran McKenna is from County Fermanagh |  | | |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 09:50 - Jan 17 with 2597 views | Keno |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 09:48 - Jan 17 by PhilTWTD |
Gavin Williams - Merthyr Tydfil
Kevin Wilson - Oxfordshire
Barry Cotter - County Clare (apparently the only current professional from there, according to a friend and Town fan who works for the radio station there).
Not a player but Kieran McKenna is from County Fermanagh |
Conor Chaplin - West Sussex
Jay Tabb - Middle Earth |  |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 09:54 - Jan 17 with 2584 views | PhilTWTD |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 09:48 - Jan 17 by PhilTWTD |
Gavin Williams - Merthyr Tydfil
Kevin Wilson - Oxfordshire
Barry Cotter - County Clare (apparently the only current professional from there, according to a friend and Town fan who works for the radio station there).
Not a player but Kieran McKenna is from County Fermanagh |
Ronan Murray - County Mayo | | | |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 09:59 - Jan 17 with 2571 views | Sharkey |
Co. Antrim : Gareth McAuley
If loans count, - Co. Down: David Healy [Post edited 17 Jan 2022 10:16]
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:01 - Jan 17 with 2572 views | Trequartista |
Middlesex isn’t a county unless you are listing historic counties, in which case East Sussex is not a county. |  |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:04 - Jan 17 with 2553 views | xrayspecs |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:01 - Jan 17 by Trequartista |
Middlesex isn’t a county unless you are listing historic counties, in which case East Sussex is not a county. |
East Sussex is a county
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sussex |  | | |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:05 - Jan 17 with 2546 views | Trequartista |
“In which case”. It’s not an historic county.
In fact Middlesex and Greater London overlap. [Post edited 17 Jan 2022 10:10]
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:10 - Jan 17 with 2530 views | Darth_Koont |
Tyrone Mings is actually Bath and North Somerset.
And you can put Lee Martin as Somerset. |  |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:11 - Jan 17 with 2527 views | Guthrum |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:01 - Jan 17 by Trequartista |
Middlesex isn’t a county unless you are listing historic counties, in which case East Sussex is not a county. |
Also makes Yorkshire tricky, given how the internal boundaries were shifted around. |  |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:17 - Jan 17 with 2488 views | HighgateBlue |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:11 - Jan 17 by Guthrum |
Also makes Yorkshire tricky, given how the internal boundaries were shifted around. |
Certainly.
We need to use either historic counties, or ceremonial counties, or allow people to use either.
We can't use local authority administration areas, because there are so many areas with unitary authorities, so no county council at all. Just to take the first one on the OP's list, Bedfordshire is no longer a county council area. There's Bedford borough, Luton and Central Beds.
What we certainly don't need is people arguing about whether X is a county or not, when they're talking at cross purposes because there are different ways of categorising counties. |  | | |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:18 - Jan 17 with 2481 views | Trequartista |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:11 - Jan 17 by Guthrum |
Also makes Yorkshire tricky, given how the internal boundaries were shifted around. |
Ha yes. I’m just being playfully pedantic. To be fair the counties where Goddard and Norwood were born are correct for the day they were born but we should have Sussex on the list as well. | |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:56 - Jan 17 with 2438 views | monty_radio |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:18 - Jan 17 by Trequartista |
Ha yes. I’m just being playfully pedantic. To be fair the counties where Goddard and Norwood were born are correct for the day they were born but we should have Sussex on the list as well. |
"playfully pedantic"? Surely an oxymoron given there's nothing more important on a social media outlet than the vital business of pedantry. | |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 11:48 - Jan 17 with 2382 views | Tangledupin_Blue |
Whitwell in Rutland is twinned with Paris so Rutland can claim Toumani Diagouraga. |  |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 11:58 - Jan 17 with 2357 views | monty_radio |
So Ryan and Scott Fraser, together, represent Aberdeen Angus. | |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 12:04 - Jan 17 with 2345 views | GeoffSentence |
Whilst wondering which footballers had come from Bath and North East Somerset, I stumbled across this poor, unfortunate soul:
"Ernest Joseph Hyman (1904 — 7 January 1927) was a footballer for Yeovil Town. He died on 7 January 1927 from injuries sustained during a game for the club against Taunton Town on Boxing Day 1926. He is buried in the graveyard of St Nicholas church, Radstock"
The game's gone soft. |  |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 21:59 - Jan 17 with 2239 views | WeWereZombies |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:01 - Jan 17 by Trequartista |
Middlesex isn’t a county unless you are listing historic counties, in which case East Sussex is not a county. |
It was a bit tongue in cheek putting in Paul Goddard of Middlesex, something of an anomaly on the Wikipedia page stating his place of birth as Harlington, Middlesex (although if you click through it says Harlington is part of Greater London.)
Could always expand Greater London so that we have more player as represented by each Lunnun borough, and do likewise for Glasgow so that Govan's Alan Brazil gets into the list...and Wark can take care of the rest of the city.
Have updated the list for all suggestions and corrections so far, plus I have added Luke Varney for Leicestershire and Frazer Richardson for South Yorkshire. | |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 12:38 - Jan 18 with 2052 views | WeWereZombies |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 11:58 - Jan 17 by monty_radio |
So Ryan and Scott Fraser, together, represent Aberdeen Angus. |
Now that, following Phil's suggestion of McKenna as representative for Fermanagh, I have included managers I could replace Scott Fraser with John Duncan...
I have replaced Derek Jefferson with Jackie Milburn in that category, Darren Ambrose has had to give way to Sir Alf (I always forget he was a Dagenham lad) and Gatesy, seems a shame but no competition, to Sir Bobby.
Also found that we have a representative from Buckinghamshire - Tom Adeyemi, but no one from Berkshire. Surely there must have been a Berk that played for Town at some point. | |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 09:36 - Jan 22 with 1850 views | WeWereZombies |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept - Town players by county on 10:17 - Jan 17 by HighgateBlue |
Certainly.
We need to use either historic counties, or ceremonial counties, or allow people to use either.
We can't use local authority administration areas, because there are so many areas with unitary authorities, so no county council at all. Just to take the first one on the OP's list, Bedfordshire is no longer a county council area. There's Bedford borough, Luton and Central Beds.
What we certainly don't need is people arguing about whether X is a county or not, when they're talking at cross purposes because there are different ways of categorising counties. |
I think these are the websites I found for the counties:
https://www.jharding.co.uk/list-of-uk-counties/
https://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/County-map-of-Ireland.html#:~:text=The%2
To be honest I was looking for ease of cut and paste rather than a definitive list, and was only slightly looking forward to the ensuing debate...
I have updated the players identified (I should have made clear when I started that this is by place of birth) over the last couple of days with Ben Thatcher (Wiltshire), Gerry Creaney (North Lanarkshire), Dai Cornell (Swansea) and Kieffer Moore (Devon). This whole idea started when I noticed that Christian Walton was born in Wadebridge and I was wondering if he was the first Town player from Cornwall. [Post edited 22 Jan 2022 9:37]
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 09:55 - Jan 22 with 1828 views | solemio |
I only acknowledge historic counties, not modern administrative areas.
As Somerset is the county of my birth I have to admit that North Somerset is usually known as Gloucestershire!!!
By the same token Mogga's birthplace, Saltburn-By-The-Sea, is in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Right, I'm off to catch the stagecoach now. [Post edited 22 Jan 2022 10:02]
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 12:47 - Feb 2 with 1726 views | WeWereZombies |
I haven't really got time for this but in peak TWTD mode I am expanding this list for London and Suffolk boroughs to accommodate left out of the list who shouldn't be, I might even do Norfolk boroughs to let Trevor Whymark in. For some reason I have replaced Tommy Smith with David Wright for Cheshire, maybe because Wright was a good player who always seems to get forgotten. Also still have no player for Armagh (though great when I Googled Josh Carson but I was getting Antrim and Armagh mixed up), if only we had signed Pat Jennings. | |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 13:31 - Feb 2 with 1677 views | NthQldITFC |
Michael Chopra, Lee Bowyer - Berks? |  |
| # WE ARE STEALING THE FUTURE FROM OUR CHILDREN --- WE MUST CHANGE COURSE # | | Poll: | It's driving me nuts |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 13:34 - Feb 2 with 1670 views | WeWereZombies |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 13:31 - Feb 2 by NthQldITFC |
Michael Chopra, Lee Bowyer - Berks? |
I believe the full title is Royal Berks, but Bowyer gets a reprieve for the late winner at Upton Park.
[edit] I just had a squint at Chopra's Wikipedia page and was intrigued to find out that Michael is his middle name, his first name is Rocky...as was his footballing career. [Post edited 2 Feb 2022 13:38]
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 14:10 - Feb 2 with 1641 views | BlueNomad |
Isle of Wight is not a county - it is part of Hampshire. |  | | |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 14:59 - Feb 2 with 1597 views | WeWereZombies |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 14:10 - Feb 2 by BlueNomad |
Isle of Wight is not a county - it is part of Hampshire. |
The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island of England. It is in the English Channel, between two and five miles off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight
But more importantly, has a Town player even been on holiday there let alone be born there. | |
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| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 15:02 - Feb 2 with 1582 views | PhilTWTD |
| TWTD, your challenge should you choose to accept-Town players/managers by county on 14:59 - Feb 2 by WeWereZombies |
The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island of England. It is in the English Channel, between two and five miles off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight
But more importantly, has a Town player even been on holiday there let alone be born there. |
I have a feeling John Compton lives there. | | | |
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