Bloody Confused - Chapter 17
Here I was killing some time before my SuperShuttle to the Tampa airport this afternoon, when I came across this nugget:"I missed that year, even though Pompey featured in 1986-7 the first American to play in the Premiership, John Kerr..."
I was temporarily distracted by the surname Kerr before I remembered that the Kerrs who played at LHS were Jeff and Brian. Then I thought, "wasn't Harkesy the first Yank to play in the Premiership?" Sure enough, a little research turned up that Kerr, who's now a coach at Duke, was born in Toronto, which as far I know, is still in Canada.
Can anyone help me out with this one - was Harkesy the first?
posted by The Blue Devil @ 5:41 PM
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I know James and John Devereaux both played against Kerr when he was at Duke and their were at Baptist College (now Chareston College (or something similar). James said he was all pace, not much skill. He grew up in the states, not sure where he was born, but I'll give you Canada.
Kerr's too old to have played in the Premiership. I bet Culpepper's not making the distinction between the 1st Division and the Prem.
I seem to remember that he played in a US line-up at RFK that had the pre-Italia 90 line up of Hugo Perez and a whole lot of bruisers and rent-a-Yanks in it.
True - he specified that it was the 86/87 season, so that would put it squarely in the First Division era.
Thanks for clearing up the Kerr issue. What about Harkes - was he the first?
Bob, according to Wikipedia, Harkesy was the first Yank to play in the Prem.
Cheers! I thought I was right. Now I can sleep well tonight knowing that I am still a master of esoteric footie trivia.
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