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Yep good heads up. We can now line up with a CB pair of Preston, Lancashire....  :)  a few years back and could have been Blackburn, Lancashire.  A place with 4000 holes, slightly less than our defence.

Add Gordon Atherton for a "red rose" back four

I remember Gordon as a ginger haired wing half, didn't really settle so far south, you could chuck in Matt Heywood....

Don't forget putting in Garry Nelson in midfield.

Frank Warburton inside left.

I'd stick Garry upfront, he scored at a decent rate for Plymuff and Charlton after leaving us.  Leigh Barnard for me in the mid

Nah we have already got Andy Caton to play up front! 

Can Gareth Whalley play? I think we all know the answer to that.

I wanted to say Dave Bamber (Bridge)

Bit of local knowledge there... I seem to remember Andy Caton playing with Paul Ince. Could we do a whole team of historic Lancashire... Tom Heaton in goal

                    Heaton

Blackburn, Preston, Lancashire, Heywood

        Ince, Atherton, Whalley

      Caton, Nelson, Warburton.

  I'd like a more recent player than Frank Warburton as I remember all the others.

Michael (Red) Rose on the bench.

Yeah, I know, but he was born in Salford.  :-[

Beswetherick should be in lance but it's not

For some reason I always thought that sounded Cornish... maybe to do with his years at Argyle.  Harland sounds Lancs but isn't.

I was about to pick you up there Reginald until I noticed the 'historic'....

On a side note on the photo of Preston with the scarf he’s at a golf course, so assume that’s Highworth. Looks pretty well maintained and the flags are in the holes, is Power using it as his own private golf course?

Here's a puzzler, why should it be that we can find an XI of Lancastrian place names, but next to none for Yorkshire  :hmmm:

Do you mean just ex Swindon (or current) or just across the board Reg?

Got to have played for the Town at some level.

We obviously also have a decent chunk of a local XI with Stroud (x2), Comyn-Platt, Walcott if you stretch some level quite a bit...

Fair. I bet we can muster a cake XI. Parkin being the first one to spring to mind  :)

Ooh I like Common Platt. I'll offer you Gary Fulbrook  :)

Andy Ford

Roy Compton

My instinct says unlikely....

Seconded.

Charlie Austin (Texas). Also enters the same name as a car category, along with Maurice Owen, but sadly no cake entrants, Unless the current red card chasing James Dunne (dee) qualifies.

Easy. We had 11 puddings last season.

Sam Parkin, Tommy "Half Moon" ey....errr Lawrence "Fig(ge)Roll" errr, i'm clutching at straws here!!

If we are going that route...Tim Flours ;)

Not to mention a fair share of fairy (cakes) over the years

Wa-heyy!!

Yup and a fruitcake!

Back in the real world, got to include Ray Baverstock and Paul Benson. Austin Berkley should also feature and surely a pairing of Roy Compton and Joey Beauchamp is too good to miss.... Compton Beauchamp. Dick Coates, fits and must be others to go with Keith East besides Alf Dean, East Dean being the Hants side of Sarum. Silly me, that'll be East Knoyle.

Tommy Langford gets in... struggling for a keeper atm

Hay Layne, isn't technically a place, unless you're a pikey

Sorted... Steve Mildenhall  :)

So something like this....

                                                                Mildenhall
                                              Baverstock, Stroud, Comyn-Platt, Berkley
                                                   East,  Knoyle   Compton, Beauchamp
                                                               Hay Layne

Paolo's Czech acquisition, Lukas Madeira.

No place for 'Alton' Bobby Barnes? Alan 'Marston' Maisey?

Had we fielded an Alton or a Marston, they'd have been in.

A  Sweatie XI may be viable....

A beer XI or drinks XI

Adi Whitbread?

Reckon you'd have to expand it to include wider connections like Sammy Burton and Jimmy Glass.

First names are probably more unusual as place names but the trialist Bimbo Fatokun Lanre

Steve Diamond White, Frosty Jack Smith, 

Well the manager would definitely be Ken Beamish  :pint: :pint:

Tom Heaton (mess)

I lived in Heaton for three years (true story!)

First time i've heard of human gerbiling. Didn't he complain?

Nope. were a couple of lovely Tyneside Flats though!

 Not exactly names that are places, but here's a LL, SRK nightmare,  EU select squad.  One from each country as applicable.

 Benda (Gernany)

 Buttigeig (Malta)
 Baudrey (France)
 Tuomela (Finland)
 Nicolau (Cyprus)

 Ojamaa (Estonia)
 Nagy (Hungary)
 Nijholt (Netherlands)
 Gabilondo (Spain)

 Magera (Czech Rep)
 Doyle (Ireland)

 Subs.
 Brezovan (Slovakia)
 Jesionkowski (Poland)
 Bakali (Belgium)
 Elsnik (Slovenia)
 Reis (Portugal)
 Heiselberg (Denmark)

 Manager. PdC (Italy)

How many of the EU 27 can we tick off in our history?

Struggling to think of a Croatian player for starters

From a quick google, cannot identify one?

I think the list might be it, but didn't really research it closely just off the top of head stuff.

I seem to recall watching a Swede play for te reserves in the early 00's, but name escapes me for now.

That'd be a turnip for the books :)

Don't forget the Danish pig farmer.

Edit: oops, missed him right at the bottom.

Brezovan - Slovakia

Timi Max Elsnik - Slovenia

Craig Farr - Romania

Good shout.

Brez goes in.

As far as Farr goes 4D, I'm not sure how he qualifies, but he seems too English for this. TME already in.

Risser played for us on a German passport, but was a Namibian international?

But we've now got a bona fide German.

Jakub Jesionkowski -poland

nicky nicolou - cyprus

Apparently according to THE Swindon web site we have had players of these European nationalities play for the Town. This list included non EU members and Jersey.

France
Italy
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Belgium
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Germany
Hungary
Jersey
Norway
Poland
Slovakia
Cyprus

Not sure if THAT concise but its a decent start.

You really had to dig deep to find Nick Nagy, two appearances in 1951!

Hungary's finest!

Enjoy the diversity of the footballing gene pool while it lasts I guess.
Wonder how many of the above would get in under a points system as "skilled professionals".  :)

Next step would be a listing of the countries outside Europe that have been represented in a town shirt.

Probably too late to ever see a Brazilian in the ranks I suspect.

Raphael Rossi Brancoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo *samba music plays*

Miglioranzi is down as Brazilian.

We could do an African XI I reckon.

And a South American one

Of course. Note to self, don't drink and post.
Was thinking more the dual passport holding previously undiscovered mercurial talent on Copacabana, spotted by chance by one of our recruitment think tank when on holiday.

Similarly a rugged Mexican defender, with a liking for hard tackling and yellow cards, so that the TE could wax lyrical about a Dirty Sanchez. Urban dictionary heaven.