What determines where a player is from?



Birthplace may well be Jimmys or LGi even if they lived and were brought up in a Bradford postcode.



one mans pudsey is another mans bradford, so where they lived /grew up /went to school

Well at least I tried. Don’t see anyone else putting one together!



Go on

The club closest to where he was born.

I have a terrible feeling that by that rationale' I have to be a Saints fan. If not them, it's Wigan!





No, no, crisis averted. It's Whitehaven.

LTID born in Billinge hospital by any chance?

Altnagelvin hospital.

Now that's bellow the belt and entirely uncalled for

Looks like I'm a Gateshead fan!

So people from small towns with no maternity unit automatically qualify for the nearest big town team rather than the one where they lived and grew up?

Well, there's no denying that Drighlington is monochrome, that's for sure.







Despite my first address having been at a place that is now covered by an LS postcode, I won't give up my hard-won out-of-town-glory-hunting-bandwagoner status so easily.



Hence, I demand a more rigorous test.

I'll get the rubber gloves.

OK, OK, we'll stick with the postcode.

I still remember last time.