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Ashley Cole
England Caps: 77
Goals: 0
Player: 2001 -
Still in his twenties, Ashley Cole is fast on the way to becoming England's most capped full back....
Bobby Charlton
World Cup Winning Player 1966
England Caps : 106
Goals : 49
Player : 1958 - 1970
One of the measures of Bobby Charlton’s universally...
Dave Watson: England Footballer
England Caps: 61
Goals: 4
Player: 1974 - 1982
Dave Watson's England career did not follow the usual pattern. His first fourteen caps were...
David Seaman
England Caps : 75
Player : 1988 - 2002
Despite question marks over his ability in certain areas David Seaman was the Number One England...
Des Walker
England Caps: 59
Goals: 0
Player: 1988-1993
You'll Never Beat Des Walker!
That was the chant that so often rang from the terraces,...
Dixie Dean
England Caps: 16
Goals: 18
Player: 1927 – 1932
Dixie Dean was capped 16 times for England before the Second World War and is one of the few players...
Duncan Edwards
England Caps : 18
Goals : 5
Player : 1955 - 1958
As there’s little surviving footage of Duncan Edwards playing it’s difficult to assess him...
England Goal Scorer: Geoff Hurst
Word Cup Winning Goal Scorer in 1966
England Caps : 49
Goals : 24
Player : 1966-1972
Geoff Hurst’s achievement at the...
Frank Lampard
England Caps: 76
Goals: 20
Player: 1999 -
It's a measure of the success of Frank Lampard that 'Junior' was quietly dropped from his name soon...
Gary Lineker
England Caps : 80
Goals : 48
Player : 1984 - 1992
Now known as a television presenter Gary Lineker was indisputably England’s most successful...
Gary Neville
England Caps: 85
Goals: 0
Player: 1995 -
Manchester United's Gary Neville is now England's most successful right full back, with 85 caps to...
Glenn Hoddle
England Caps : 53
Goals : 8
Player : 1979-1988
Manager: 1996-1999
Glenn Hoddle played for Tottenham Monaco and England from the...
Gordon Banks
England's Number One Shirt in World Cup Win 1966
England Caps: 73
Goals: 0
Player: 1963 - 1972
One of the key mainstays of the 1966...
Jack Charlton
World Cup Winner 1966
England Caps : 35
Goals : 6
Player : 1965-1970
Jack Charlton was the taller of the two brothers, who played in and...
Jimmy Greaves
England Caps: 57
Goals: 44
Player: 1959 - 1967
Jimmy Greaves it seems will be remembered more for the match he didn’t play in, the 1966 Word Cup...
Joe Cole
England Caps: 53
Goals: 10
Player: 2001 -
One of a group of young players who emerged from the impressive West Ham United youth development...
John Barnes
England Caps: 79
Goals: 11
Player: 1983 – 1995
John Barnes was an electric left-sided midfielder and attacker who had a superb career with Liverpool...
Kenny Sansom
England Caps : 86
Goals : 1
Player : 1979-88
Kenny Sansom or ‘King Kenny’ to the Arsenal fans, was a long serving left full-back for...
Martin Peters
Scorer at the 1966 World Cup Final
England Caps: 67
Goals: 20
Player: 1966 - 1974
World Cup winner Martin Peters was one of three players who...
Michael Owen
England Caps : 89
Goals : 40
Player : 1998 -
It's almost unbelievable that Michael Owen has appeared for England over eighty...
Nat Lofthouse
England Caps : 33
Goals : 30
Player : 1950-1958
Nat (short for Nathaniel) Lofthouse was a classic English centre-forward who nearly...
Paul Gascoigne
England Caps : 57
Goals : 10
Player : 1988 - 1998
The most enigmatic football star of the eighties and nineties Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne was a...
Paul Scholes
England Caps: 66
Goals: 14
Player: 1997 - 2004
Paul Scholes was the last of the famous batch of young Manchester United 1992 academy players to...
Peter Beardsley
England Caps : 59
Goals : 9
Player : 1986 - 1996
Peter Beardsley had his fair share of false starts to his career but his reputation as a...
Peter Shilton
England Caps : 125
Player : 1970-1990
So who is England’s greatest ever keeper? It’s an argument that is impossible to conclude because it’s so...
Ramon Wilson
Player at the World Cup 1966 Final!!
England Caps: 63
Goals: 0
Player: 1960 - 1968
Ray Wilson the unassuming and cultured left back, who won the...
Ray Wilkins
England Caps: 84
Goals: 3
Player: 1976 - 1986
Ray Wilkins started as a prodigious teenage talent at Chelsea and matured into the backbone of the...
Sol Campbell
England Caps: 73
Goals: 1
Player: 1996 - 2007
A Tottenham Hotspur fan and player from a young age, who also attended the FA's School of...
Stan Mortensen
England Caps : 25
Goals : 23
Player : 1947-1953
As names fade into the memory there are still a few players from after the Second World...
Stanley Matthews
England Caps : 54
Goals : 11
Player : 1934 - 1957
The ‘Wizard of Dribble’ Stanley Matthews is probably one of the best known names in English...
Steve Bloomer: England Football Player
England Caps: 23
Goals: 28
Player: 1895 - 1907
Steve Bloomer’s twelve year England career saw many records set and quite a...
Steven Gerrard
England Caps: 77
Goals: 16
Player: 2000
Steven Gerrard is a member of that increasingly rare breed-in these days of multi-million pound global transfers-a...
Stuart Pearce
England Caps : 75
Goals : 5
Player : 1987-1999
Stuart ‘Psycho’ Pearce was a popular hard tackling, powerful left-back whose England...
The Career of Alan Ball
Man of the Match World Cup Final 1966
England Caps: 72
Goals: 8
Player: 1965 - 1975
Football is in Alan Ball’s blood; his father was a...
Tom Finney
England Caps : 76
Goals : 30
Player : 1946-1958
Tom Finney one of the greatest post-war players England saw, had an inauspicious start,...
Tony Adams
England Caps: 66
Goals: 5
Player: 1987 - 2000
Tony Adams had an eventful England career sometimes the rock in the centre of a parsimonious defence, at...
Trevor Francis
England Caps : 52
Goals : 12
Player : 1976-1986
Trevor Francis, who was a regular in the England side from 1977 to 1986, will be forever...
Viv Anderson: England Football Player
England Caps: 30
Goals: 2
Player: 1978 - 1988
Although Viv Anderson will be forever remembered as the first black...
Wayne Rooney
England Caps: 56
Goals: 25
Player: 2003 -
“The best young player this country has seen for the past thirty years” were Manchester United manager...
Wilf Mannion
England Caps: 26
Goals: 11
Player: 1946 - 1951
Wilf Mannion achieved 26 caps for England in the immediate post-war period playing as an inside right...
