Has any player played for all 5 South Yorkshire teams?

Barnsley, Rotherham United, Doncaster Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United?

 

Managed to get to 3, with Bruce Dyer at the moment.

 

COG has done 4.

 

Didn't Bruce play for 4 (all except Wednesday)?

And Chris O Grady 4 (all except Donny?)

Struggling to think of anyone that played for all 5.....

 

Gordon Owen did 4, Barnsley, Wednesday & both Rotherham and Donny on loan.

 

Cotterhill did donny, barnsley, sheff utd

COG is only one i can think of doing 4 in my era of watching us.

 

maybe donny is COG's next stop to bag the title?

 

Think Glynn Snodin's done four as well.

 

Tony Cunnigham did 4, but not dem Blades. That's as close as I can get.

 

It would probably be quite an unwanted title!

Me & some mates were talking after playing footy 2nt how **** our respective teams were, and it got me thinking if any player had suffered by playing for us all.

there are probably worse counties to have played for all the teams there, such as Devon, but at least there are only 3 of them.

Here's a challenge : anyone to come up with a county with 5 or more league clubs, collectively worse than the shower of **** in SY!

 

Lancashire.

 

Not since WW2. There's only been 27 players, post 1945, that have played for both Sheffield clubs. Three of them have also played for Barnsley - Keith Treacy, Carl Bradshaw and Chris O'Grady. Chris O'Grady has also played for Rotherham, so he is the nearest.

• Earl Barrett
• Danny Batth
• Carl Bradshaw
• Leigh Bromby
• Franz Carr
• Richard Cresswell
• Terry Curran
• David Ford
• Derek Geary
• Paul Heald
• David Johnson
• Jeff King
• Brian Marwood
• Jon-Paul McGovern
• Tony McMahon
• Owen Morrison
• Chris O'Grady
• Alan Quinn
• Neil Ramsbottom
• Carl Robinson
• Wilf Rostron
• Bernard Shaw
• Simon Stainrod
• Keith Treacy
• Imre Varadi
• Alan Warboys
• Dean Windass

 

There are only 5 with 5 or more teams: South Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Midlands, Greater Manchester and Greater London and three of them aren't proper counties in my book, if I had a book.

Lancashire has Accrington, Morecambe, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Preston, Blackburn and Burnley, which is pretty ****.

 

I was thinking Manchester & Liverpool were in Lancashire, but if they are not anymore, then yes, the remaining clubs are probably, as a bunch, worse than us lot. It's grim up north.

 

"Played", not turned up and pinched a wage!

 

None in the Football League

Gordon Owen also played for Chesterfield, so 5 of the "Big Six" as Radio Hallam used to call us.

 

Liverpool, Everton and Tranmere are classed as Merseyside. Man Utd, Man City, Bolton, Wigan, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and Stockport, whatever league they're in, are all Greater Manchester.

Personally, I think West Yorkshire is the biggest load of ***** hawks. Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield - what a set of cnuts.

 

My book is even worse than I thought.

 

I'll always remember that hatrick he scored against Oxford, I think he bagged a few that season. Dare say you'll know how many if you care to share. 21 is in my head for some reason.