Where they’re from;

[Johnnytotal]

Unable Xavier born in Mozambique

 

[BernieH]

Gary Stevens, shared a hometown with Emlyn Hughes, not that you would know, the town has nothing for Stevens, hardly anyone knows who he is.

 

[Joey66]

Andrew Mullen Gray birthplace Isle of Lewis- Andy Gray

 

[AndyC]

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....Lagos, Nigeria, is where it all began for Victor Anichebe.

A particularly grim place to be raised, Lagos.

 

[Paul Rideout]

Jack Rodwell hails from cosmopolitan utopia, Birkdale. Police there working to resolve the case of how he’s managed to steal a living from football (not investigating the criminally large carpet discounts)

 

[Bluerover]

...Seamus Coleman is from Killybegs;

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I am not familiar with Killybesg and these photos had me scratching my head as one shows the same church with a spire, and the other without. I found the answer here!!

170 years later Killybegs church is finally crowned!

After a gap of nearly 170 years, the crowning detail was put on place last Saturday at the Church of St Mary of the Visitation, Killybegs, when an elegant spire was hoisted into place on top of the church’s 120ft tower.

www.donegaldemocrat.ie

 

[GwladysPhil]

... it looks a lovely place to sit in a cosy bar drinking Guinness. As soon as I posted that picture, I thought thats exactly what I’d do.

You'd act shifty like the priests?

 

[LostLegend]

The streets of Meaux, France where Lucas Digne learned to score les Blammeaux!

 

[laudo9]

Andrew Mullen Gray birthplace Isle of Lewis- Andy Gray
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The local planners must've messed up big time after he was born !

 

[Joey66]

The local planners must've messed up big time after he was born !

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youir right his mother was born on the isle of lewis - moved to still game country Glasgow...doh
got the fancy name correct though......

 

[Adam-GOTTV]

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....imagine Adrian Heath kicking a football in Newcastle-Under-Lyme high street.

Lol. My neck of the woods. Been in some proper states on that high street.

 

[laudo9]

youir right his mother was born on the isle of lewis - moved to still game country Glasgow...doh
got the fancy name correct though......

It was probably growing up in Drumchapel and taking a pounding for that name that toughened him up to be the mad fearless fecker we loved as a player tbf !!

 

[Bluerover]

Peter Farrell

Castle Street, Dalkey, Co Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

The view to Dalkey Island, which housed Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age settlers

 

[Eggs]

...St Austell looks a nice place for Nigel Martyn to be born.

 

[heatmeiser]

Was it farnworth, walkden or Salford?

He was born in Farnworth, but grew up in Walkden - which was then in Lancashire but is now Salford.

So all three.