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Top 5 players FROM Southampton (or close by)


Angus McCoatup
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Going on what they have achieved in the game, top flight appearances etc

 

1) Martin Chivers

2) Darren Anderton

2) Graham Roberts

3) Wayne Bridge

4) Nick Holmes

funny how top three went to Spurs....[/QUOTE]

 

Interesting to see that Woolston-born Nick Holmes - over 500 games during 14 seasons - was loyal to the club all the time.

Also one of the very few locally-born players to have captained the team and the only local man in the club's history to have won an FA Cup Winners medal with Saints.

though I think (?).....perhaps all the others may also have won the FA Cup ....(but with their "other club ").

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Ted Drake

 

yes I think that So'ton-born Ted Drake definitely qualifies...a cricketing footballer (he also played some games for Hampshire in the early 1930's) - he joined Saints as an amateur in 1931 (aged 19) and played 3 games in Nov.1931 but Ted came into his own at Easter 1932 when he scored 5 times in the last 8 games).

The following two seasons he carried on where he left off scoring 20 goals in 33 starts in 32/33 and, 22 in 27 games in 33/34.

He departed in March 1934 for a (then) club record of £6000 ..to ARSENAL (sounds familiar that) Saints record 47 goals in 71 games.

 

In the following years he broke most of the Arsenals goal-scoring records including scoring all 7 goals in the 7-1 demolition of Aston Villa in Dec.1935...though I think he had one goal disallowed which he claimed had crossed the goal line - and missed a penalty in that game ! In total he scored 124 goals in 167 games for Arsenal ..it was 70 years before Thierry Henry to beat his record.

 

Sadly... Drake was injured a lot - though he managed to win two league titles and score the winning goal in a Cup Final along the way..but the injuries limited his England chances to scoring 6 goals ..in 5 games. During the war time period he injured his back and never played again, but later managed CHELSEA in 1954-55 (the last time they won the League title) before becoming League Champions - a few seasons ago).

Personal note; I didn't get ALL of this from records, as my late Father claimed to have known him in his So'ton period and always talked about him.

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No1 Terry Paine, 800+ for Southampton in three divisions and England World Cup winners medal. Nobody can match that. others - John Sydenham, 400+, Steve Mills, Steve Moran, Graham Baker, Derek Reeves, Ted Drake, Don Roper, Bill Ellerington

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No1 Terry Paine, 800+ for Southampton in three divisions and England World Cup winners medal. Nobody can match that. others - John Sydenham, 400+, Steve Mills, Steve Moran, Graham Baker, Derek Reeves, Ted Drake, Don Roper, Bill Ellerington

 

Steve Mills was from either Portsmouth or Gosport,went to Gosport Grammar,played against him in the Hampshire Schools 6s at the Sports Centre.

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