'After a list on this. Al start wi Mark Crossley .. was a bfc fan from Hoyland common... his dad was ar coach at Hoyland common falcons .. nffc nursery club .. Top goalie..
Mark Beevers. Came through Wednesday’s academy and played for them before moving down south to Millwall.
Could go as far back as Busby Babes with this, Mark Jones of Wombwell, Also of Wombwell, Mick Speight of Sheffield Utd. Alan Woodward Cudworth, Greenhoff Brothers, Steve Daley, Billy Whitehurst Thurnscoe (Rotherham Address but Barnsley MBC.
Trevor Philips played for Rotherham under Tom Doc I think. He only lived a hundred yards from Oakwell.
Neil Smillie, whose father Ron played for us, played against us for Palace and maybe Brighton. Also the bloke who scored Enfield's equalizer against us in 81 was from Barnsley I think but I can't remember his name. Keith Burkinshaw too. For Liverpool and, er, Workington.
Neil smilie.. ^^ bet mi to it. He scored against us at oakwell 2-0 down we ended winning 5-2 .. same year we beat whufc in cup away 5-2 ..as I recall
Great thread. Always looked out to see if any Premier League players were local born in the Panini sticker albums. Always remember finding out that Crossley was born in Barnsley, couldn't believe it seeing that as a youngster with him playing in the top flight and not for us.
Lee Mills, from Darfield, played for Bradford, Port Vsle , Wolverhampton Wanderers, I went to school with him, about 47-48 year old now
Stan "Dizzy" Burton. I remember my dad pointing him out to me in Wombwell. Played in the 1939 cup final for Wolves. He got his nick name because he was a maze dribbling winger. I looked him up on Wikipedia as I only had my dad's word for this before now.