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I may be a tad out on these figures, I’ve collected them from Wikipedia so some of the appearance stats I counted may be a little out, I’ve only gone off the
“notable players” section of the Sheffield United academy Wikipedia page, some of these players I’d long forgotten about such as Nicky Law, Ben starosta and David parkhouse. These players have however played league football for professional clubs
Its passed 20 mins on for me because I’m a sad bastard.
Since the late 90’s early 00’s our academy has produced players that have appeared for a professional league club in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the ROI or international teams at under 18 or above
10,500 “professional appearances since 2000” I don’t think that’s too shabby to be honest, I’d like to compare that to the pigs, I’d imagine we’d absolutely dwarf it.
With the new academy site and structure incoming I can only see this continuing for the next 25 years with a bit of luck but this is Sheffield United and we all know that sometimes things can turn on it’s head extremely quickly.
You can say appearances for Derry, Linfield and Ross county shouldn’t be counted but I’d rather be playing for Bala Town than the dog and duck or even not at all.
“notable players” section of the Sheffield United academy Wikipedia page, some of these players I’d long forgotten about such as Nicky Law, Ben starosta and David parkhouse. These players have however played league football for professional clubs
Its passed 20 mins on for me because I’m a sad bastard.
Since the late 90’s early 00’s our academy has produced players that have appeared for a professional league club in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the ROI or international teams at under 18 or above
10,500 “professional appearances since 2000” I don’t think that’s too shabby to be honest, I’d like to compare that to the pigs, I’d imagine we’d absolutely dwarf it.
With the new academy site and structure incoming I can only see this continuing for the next 25 years with a bit of luck but this is Sheffield United and we all know that sometimes things can turn on it’s head extremely quickly.
You can say appearances for Derry, Linfield and Ross county shouldn’t be counted but I’d rather be playing for Bala Town than the dog and duck or even not at all.
