Top Level Players from Barnsley and District

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    Red Rain Well-Known Member

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    I have been racking my brains to think of players originating from the Barnsley area who during the last 40 years say, who established themselves playing in the top division in England. This is the list that I have come up with. Please feel free to add any that I have missed.

    Goalkeepers
    Mark Crossley (Notts For)
    David Watson (Barnsley)

    Right Backs
    Nicky Eaden (Barnsley)

    Left Backs

    Centre Halfs
    Pat Howard (Newcastle Utd)
    Mick McCarthy (Manchester City)
    Arnold Sidebottom (Manchester Utd)
    Brian Greenhoff (Manchester Utd)
    Carl Tiler (Nottingham Forest)

    Centre Midfield
    Brian Greenhoff (again)
    David Speedie (Chelsea)
    Steve Agnew (Blackburn Rovers)

    Right Wing
    Stuart Barraclough (Newcastle United)
    Alan Woodward (Sheffield United)

    Left Wing
    Ian Banks (Leicester City)

    Strikers
    David Hirst (Sheffield Wed)
    Jimmy Greenhoff (Manchester Utd)
    Frank Casper (Burnley)
    David Speedie (again)

    What I notice about this list is that there are only 14 players on the list and 5 of those never played for Barnsley, so perhaps my impression of the golden generation of players from Barnsley populating the best teams of the time happened before my football watching days... I am too young to have seen Tommy Taylor. I also notice that Barnsley has not produced a single player since Eaden and Watson played during the Premier season (OK Eaden also played for Birmingham and Wigan). Why has our town stopped producing good players?
     
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    Geoff Horsefield ?

    Did he play for West Brom , Birmingham in the top league?
     
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    Pity you can't go a bit further back to include The Greatest.

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    Tommy Taylor</p>

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    Steve Daley (Man City)
     
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    That's 2 more that never played for Barnsley making the score 16 to 7.
     
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    Love how in windies photo the west stand still looks basically the same as it does now
     
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    Anton Otulawotnot ? nt
     
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    I think that's

    Old trafford actually
     
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    Alan Sunderland - Arsenal/Ipswich nt
     
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    I couldn't remember if Anton Otulakowski ever established himself at West Ham.
     
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    David Weatherall ? nt
     
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    Peter Shirtliff
     
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    RE: Gordon West - Everton nt
     
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    That's another I missed - 17 - 9
     
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    Speedy from Donny/Anton Dewsbury?

    Does that count?
     
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    And another 2 19-11
     
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    We seem to be doing well for keepers. No left backs yet though.
     
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    Lee Mills played for Bradford in the Prem - and his first name is Rowan!</p>

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Mills</p>

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