"Beardsley was best player of KK’s nearly men" - Tino

[Guest firetotheworks]

Liverpool, Manchester and the West Ham catchment areas have all produced an equivocal amount of class players. Often at around the same time too.

[OzzieMandias]

We were lucky to have Shearer, Waddle, Gascoigne and Beardsley all from the same region.  To keep producing the same quantity of top class players would be mental.  How many other regions in the world, the same size as the NE, have produced top player upon player.

 

The Netherlands.

 

The population of the Netherlands is a fair bit bigger than the NE, tbf.

 

Aye and they've produced a fair few more world-class players than northeast England too. But a surprisingly large number for such a small country.

[Frazzle]

Liverpool, Manchester and the West Ham catchment areas have all produced an equivocal amount of class players. Often at around the same time too.

 

Off the top of my head I can't think of many up there with those four.  There probably are ones to rival them but they don't jump out.

[Frazzle]

We were lucky to have Shearer, Waddle, Gascoigne and Beardsley all from the same region.  To keep producing the same quantity of top class players would be mental.  How many other regions in the world, the same size as the NE, have produced top player upon player.

 

The Netherlands.

 

The population of the Netherlands is a fair bit bigger than the NE, tbf.

 

Aye and they've produced a fair few more world-class players than northeast England too. But a surprisingly large number for such a small country.

 

The population is about 15m isn't it?  Compared to about 500k in the NE.  So they should've produced about 30 times more world class players.  Since the 1980s I'm not sure they have tbh.

[johnnypd]

We were lucky to have Shearer, Waddle, Gascoigne and Beardsley all from the same region.  To keep producing the same quantity of top class players would be mental.  How many other regions in the world, the same size as the NE, have produced top player upon player.

 

The Netherlands.

 

The population of the Netherlands is a fair bit bigger than the NE, tbf.

 

Aye and they've produced a fair few more world-class players than northeast England too. But a surprisingly large number for such a small country.

 

The population is about 15m isn't it?  Compared to about 500k in the NE.  So they should've produced about 30 times more world class players.  Since the 1980s I'm not sure they have tbh.

 

the north east has a fair bit more than 500,000 people 

[Frazzle]

Didn't realise there were that many here. 

 

Point still stands though.

[Big Geordie]

Natural talent and flair is being coached out of kids at the moment - it's all about power and athleticism. Add to that, kids shouldn't play on a full-size pitch until they are 13-14 and you have another reason. The coaching and academy system in this country needs a complete overhaul in terms of it's thinking and how to produce quality players.

[nobby_solano]

Jamie Burt is not dead.

 

Did he post on here at some time?

 

yeah, burtyboy. works in grainger games.

 

is that not david burt?