Best All-English City XI

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Peter Barnes would be in it for me. I can’t tell you how excited I was aged 8 when he got picked for England.

 

[kun]

Nobody on here's ever seen him play — but by reputation, Peter
Doherty.
Must be one or two players from the mid 50s team who'd compete, too;

Peter Doherty?

Why don't we just have Kompany, Kinky and Trautmann too?

 

[deedee]

Swift
walker Stones Watson Pardoe
Doyle
Lee Bell Francis Foden Summerbee


Subs. Corrigan Young Sterling Barry Curle SWP Oakes

 

[bluemc1]

Despite all our foreign stars over the years, City have had some decent English players. Whist musing idly yesterday, I came up with a notional City team comprising English players. (I have probably forgotten someone important):

Corrigan

Walker Stones Watson Pardoe

Grealish Barry Foden

Bell

Lee Sterling

Subs: Coton, Doyle, Booth, SWP, Buzzer

Of that XI, ten were internationals - and Pardoe could well have been if Best hasn't committed that assault.

based on what they’ve done for City SWP has got to be in over Grealish

he was the only thing that kept me going to the game for a couple of seasons

 

[Howard Croft]

This is the only correct answer.

Spot on. The greatest all English team. Proud to be old enough to have seen it.
ps - it's a good job substitute Bobby Kennedy didn't come on at Newcastle or the record would be gone.
Come on you Blues

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

Corrigan
Walker Watson Doyle Lake (have to fit him in somewhere)
SWP Bell, Foden
Tueart Francis Lee

 

[kun]

----------------Hart
Book---Doyle-------Watson---Pardoe
---------------Oakes
Buzzer--------Bell---------Sterling
-----------Lee------Young

Subs: Corrigan, Walker, Stones, Lake, Foden, Wright-Phillips, Francis, Tueart, Barnes

 

[franksinatra]

Peter Doherty?

Why don't we just have Kompany, Kinky and Trautmann too?

It does highlight how foreign players have influenced our great club over the Years.

I think its fair to say our English 11 would meet their match against a City foreign 11 such as these examples:

Trautmann
Zabaleta-Kompany-Distin Cancelo
———-Yaya——-
Kinkladze ——-Silva ———KDB
Aguero—— Tevez

Or maybe a 3-2-5 throwback to the 50s

Trautmann
Cancelo——-Komps———Dunne
Fern——Yaya
Bobby Johnstone Law Docherty Meredith Alec Herd

Or a more conventional 4-2-3-1
Trautmann
Cancelo—Komps Distin- Donachie
Hartford—— Yaya
D Silva—- Kinkladze——KDB
Aguero

 

[Iamthemusicman]

Only using players I've seen (early 2000's onwards)

Hart
Walker
Stones
Lescott
Delph
Barry
Milner
Grealish
Wright-Phillips
Sterling
Foden

Subs - James, Richards, Onuoha, Lampard, M. Johnson, A. Johnson, Fowler

Not great depth but starting team good enough for top 4?

 

[Corky]

James
Curle McCarthy Barry
SWP Milner Barton Brennan Phelan
White Johnson.T