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Post by andrewguk on Aug 14, 2009 2:51:22 GMT
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Post by knowles on Aug 14, 2009 2:51:59 GMT
I thought the answer was trees. Clearly I was wrong.
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Post by StoKeith on Aug 14, 2009 8:00:14 GMT
Yeah - I thought it was pretty interesting, albeit telling us something we already knew. I quite liked the team by team breakdown though!
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Aug 14, 2009 8:05:45 GMT
Good map. Confirms what we already knew, that Stoke have hardly started to scratch the surface when it comes to foreign talent. Be interesting to see, now Kemp is chief scout based in the USA, if we do manage to bring in players from North, Central and South America in the coming seasons.
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Post by walrus on Aug 14, 2009 8:36:03 GMT
I remember reading that with just seven different nationalities in our squad, we're the least well geographically represented club in the elague. Every other had more than ten.
The most interesting thing is the proliferation of African players if you compare the 1989 map to 2009.
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Post by Baggs on Aug 14, 2009 8:48:39 GMT
very good point itpl - do you think that is a change in racial attitudes in the UK, better scouting networks, a bit of both or something else?
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Post by diaofan on Aug 14, 2009 9:58:42 GMT
Just as a side note, but there are only 3 Asian nations represented in the Premier League and only one of these players has any sort of meaningful contribution
Oman (Ali Al-Habsi at Bolton)
Iran (Adranik Teymourian at Fulham)
South Korea (Park at MUFC, Cho at Wigan and Seol at Fulham)
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