I was having a conversation with a friend who doesn't altogether like football (I've never known him to watch a whole match on his own) and the subject of lower-league football came up. I struggled, with my less-than-encyclopedic memory, to come up with any highly-rated player in the premiership who didn't start their career at either a youth academy or a big team in their homeland.
Are there any players in the premiership today who are making the first-team squad regularly and started at a Blue-Square-Premier-or-below?