View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive Give us a game : evaluating the opportunities that exist for English footballers to play in the English Premier League BULLOUGH, Steven and MILLS, Andrew Available from Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/8566/ This document is the author deposited version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. Published version BULLOUGH, Steven and MILLS, Andrew (2014). Give us a game : evaluating the opportunities that exist for English footballers to play in the English Premier League. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 9 (4), 637-650. Repository use policy Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in SHURA to facilitate their private study or for non- commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive http://shura.shu.ac.uk International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching Volume 9 · Number 4 · 2014 637 Give Us a Game: Evaluating the Opportunities that Exist for English Footballers to Play in the English Premier League Steve Bullough1 and Andrew Mills2 1Sport Industry Research Centre; 2Centre for Sport and Exercise Science, Academy of Sport and Physical Activity, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Hall, Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield, S10 2BP E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to provide a detailed, large-scale retrospective analysis of the number of English footballers that have been developed to play in the English Premier League (EPL) over twenty seasons.