It is one of the great football terrace debates.
From Merseyside and Manchester to the North East of England and the East End of London, certain parts of England have a reputation for being true football ‘hot beds’ that have generated a disproportionate amount of top talent down the years.
But which parts of the country can claim the crown for producing the most Premier League players? Which small towns punch well above their weight when it comes to nurturing soccer stars, and which areas lag well behind the rest of the country when it comes to producing top-flight talent?
So here are the answers to this and examples of our other football-related questions:
- Which English town has produced the most footballers?
- How many Premiership footballers were born in Liverpool?
- Where was Robbie Fowler born?
- Premiership footballers born in Solihull
- Who won the World Cup in 1990?
Interestingly, results from London suggest that good footballers can come from all classes, with richer boroughs producing as many top players as the traditional working class ones. Play around with questions like What is the median wage for the London borough Lee Bowyer was born in? and median wage for Tower Hamlets to see some examples.
This survey came out of an office bet about where the most good footballers come from. We realised that True Knowledge is uniquely placed to tell us. Our mission is to teach a computer everything about the world, and we're already far enough along for the system to be the only one in the world capable of combining cross-domain knowledge to answer many questions like this.
Who knows - maybe Premier League scouts will use this to uncover the next generation of Rooneys, Gerrards and Beckhams and England. Then years from now England win the World Cup thanks in some small part to our data!
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