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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Be a lot more interesting to see this via academy rather than club they played at.

Thinking about West Ham: Ferdinand, Joe Cole, Lampard, Carrick, Defoe, Ince, Glen Johnson - they must all have minimum 50 caps each. Which is so impressive for 1 academy. But vast majority of their caps came once they left West Ham.

West Ham have contributed more to England than Spurs say (and I say that as a spurs fan) but were much higher up on the list because we’ve always had a decent amount of England players in our squad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Agreed. The three big north east clubs, for example, are conspicuously absent here despite having some of the most productive academies in the country when it comes to English talent, particularly Sunderland & Boro.

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