It really didn't. Muir was born in Coventry and by the time he joined Albion he was almost 21 and we were his fourth club. He isn't a "home-grown" player by any stretch of the imagination. Kevin Russell would be a much better shout on that score.
Gary Stevens was released by Ipswich during his U-16 schoolboy season. He came to Albion at the start of the following campaign and played a few matches on trial for the youth team before being taken on as an apprentice professional (what these days is known as a scholar). This is taken from the...
Trevor Wood was a scholar at Brighton in the mid-80s. He didn't make a league appearance for Albion but went on to have a league career with Port Vale, Walsall and Hereford. He earned a Northern Ireland cap (he was actually from Jersey) and played in the Champions League (albeit in the...