Professional Footballers from Sussex

DIFFBROOK · Apr 2, 2014

A rough guess suggests that there are roughly 7 footballers currently playing in 1 st teams of English professional football that hail from Sussex. March, Dunk, El Abd, Cook, Elphick (from Bournemouth), David Martin and Gareth Barry.

I'm probably wrong and there a few more, but its a poor effort from this county. At international level only Gareth Barry and Gareth Southgate have ever played for England and who hail from sussex.

Why is that Sussex produces so few professional footballers? Hopefully the new training complex will help a few more come through, but is it deeper than that. Do Sussex lads enjoy playing football serious enough to make a career out of it?

The Truth · Apr 2, 2014

Marcus Tudgay (Worthing)

Rhys Murphy (Shoreham)

Grant Hall (Brighton)

Poorer places tend to produce the better players.

Stoichkov · Apr 2, 2014

FIXTURES! D'oh...

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo · Apr 2, 2014

By David Martin I assume you mean Russell Martin of Norwich? He does have a brother called David though.

Forest striker Marcus Tudgay was born in Shoreham and grew up in Worthing.

DIFFBROOK · Apr 2, 2014

Apologies for not realising that there are only a finite set of topics to discuss and for not checking with the search engine beforehand.

Munkfish · Apr 2, 2014

Sham Goodwin, not forgetting a few others in our current development squad.

The Large One · Apr 2, 2014

DIFFBROOK said:
A rough guess suggests that there are roughly 7 footballers currently playing in 1 st teams of English professional football that hail from Sussex. March, Dunk, El Abd, Cook, Elphick (from Bournemouth), David Martin and Gareth Barry.

I'm probably wrong and there a few more, but its a poor effort from this county. At international level only Gareth Barry and Gareth Southgate have ever played for England and who hail from sussex.

Why is that Sussex produces so few professional footballers? Hopefully the new training complex will help a few more come through, but is it deeper than that. Do Sussex lads enjoy playing football serious enough to make a career out of it?

Gareth Southgate isn't a Sussex native.

You've neglected to consider Bobby Tambling, born in Storrington.

Paul Ifill is still playing, albeit in New Zealand.

DIFFBROOK · Apr 2, 2014

Yes, I did mean him. Only 2 or 3 more have been added. Incredibly poor.

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo said:
By David Martin I assume you mean Russell Martin of Norwich? He does have a brother called David though.

Forest striker Marcus Tudgay was born in Shoreham and grew up in Worthing.

Munkfish · Apr 2, 2014

Missed out Cox, Harding and Hammond as well. theres another three.

i would have thought Crawely would now have some pros from Sussex in their team.

dougdeep · Apr 2, 2014

The Large One said:
You've neglected to consider Bobby Tambling, born in Storrington.

Currently playing?

Postman Pat · Apr 2, 2014

Dean Cox - Orient
Wes Fogden - Portsmouth #twats
Grant Hall - Spurs
Joel Lynch - Huddersfield

Cowfold Seagull · Apr 2, 2014

Leon Legge at Gillingham, born in Bexhill.

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo · Apr 2, 2014

Munkfish said:
Missed out Cox, Harding and Hammond as well. theres another three.

i would have thought Crawely would now have some pros from Sussex in their team.

Does Dan Harding qualify for this list, he isn't from Sussex, he was born in Gloucester.

edna krabappel · Apr 2, 2014

It's just not a football area. Never has been.

Neecha · Apr 2, 2014

The Truth said:
Marcus Tudgay (Worthing)

Rhys Murphy (Shoreham)

Grant Hall (Brighton)

Poorer places tend to produce the better players.

You will be surprised, a large proportion of the west ham , Charlton and millwall academies are actually players from Kent and Essex leafy suburbs believe it or not

hans kraay fan club · Apr 2, 2014

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo said:
Does Dan Harding qualify for this list, he isn't from Sussex, he was born in Gloucester.

and it is meant to be a list of footballers.

hans kraay fan club · Apr 2, 2014

Neecha said:
You will be surprised, a large proportion of the west ham , Charlton and millwall academies are actually players from Kent and Essex leafy suburbs believe it or not

I'm at the Southampton Academy fairly regularly for U-11/12/13/14 games. They win most of them, and their entire academy is filled with blonde middle-class kids called Tom, Harry or Will, from Winchester or the New Forest.

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo · Apr 2, 2014

hans kraay fan club said:
and it is meant to be a list of footballers.

An excellent point.

Neecha · Apr 2, 2014

hans kraay fan club said:
I'm at the Southampton Academy fairly regularly for U-11/12/13/14 games. They win most of them, and their entire academy is filled with blonde middle-class kids called Tom, Harry or Will, from Winchester or the New Forest.

its fascinating how its evolved especially in east London where there is a proportion of kids from deprived areas but its not the majority like it used to be. You probably know this already but kids are now being put through school by the clubs and they have to be able to achieve grades now to play.

Postman Pat · Apr 2, 2014

hans kraay fan club said:
I'm at the Southampton Academy fairly regularly for U-11/12/13/14 games. They win most of them, and their entire academy is filled with blonde middle-class kids called Tom, Harry or Will, from Winchester or the New Forest.

Talking of which - Harrison Reed is a Southampton pro who came through the ranks and was born in Worthing.

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