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Home-grown Strikers

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comment by CSTP (U1453)

posted on 3/4/13

Paragraphs would be nice. Rookie error

comment by oddiY.. (U1585)

posted on 3/4/13

Goox article mate ...I cant think of any

Didnt crouchie come through our accadamy? Or did you mean decent strkers?

posted on 3/4/13

ohh dear a rival to Sandy



Welcome mate, good first article

im hoping in the next few yrs we can produce more home grown talent now that we have the facilitys in place


posted on 3/4/13

welcome aboard.....your missing paragraphs...and these........................

trust me...these guys love a few dots after each point........

posted on 3/4/13

Cant really think of any,maybe Frank Saul in the 60's and much later Nick Barmby, both I think came as youngsters.

posted on 3/4/13

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posted on 3/4/13

Jimmy Dimmock, netted the only goal of the 1921 cup final scored over 100 club goals for Spurs, local club lad, born in Edmonton. Les Bennett, member of our title winning side 1951, also scored 120 plus goals, born in Wood Green. Not conventional out and out strikers as we know, but nevertheless strikers all the same.

posted on 3/4/13

Mark Falco is the last decent Home grown Striker I can remember we have had a few pretenders since like Lee Barnard and we have Harry Kane & the lad Lancaster coming through however I think that the size of Harry Kane's nose is going to be a problem it is holding him back !!

posted on 3/4/13

Falco is the only decent striker to have come thru the ranks that I can recall.
He was part of the last batch of players I've seen who came thru the ranks together to become well-used squad players.

comment by (U9863)

posted on 3/4/13

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posted on 3/4/13

"Why are we so unable to produce a decent striker?!"

If you look over the past 30 yrs, IMHO you will find very few top flight English clubs who developed their own striker, or bought a young talent from another club and then nurtured them into the finished article.

Owen is the most obvious example.
Lineker, Teddy, Shearer, Ferdinand etc are the opposite.

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