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The first player to be capped 10 times by England was Norman Bailey, who played his 10th match in an 8–1 away win against Ireland on 23 February 1884 in the 1883–84 British Home Championship. [2] His final match, in which he earned his 19th cap, was the 3–1 home defeat to Scotland on 19 March 1887. [2]
Players from Tottenham Hotspur have been named top scorer more than players from any other club, appearing thirteen times on this list. Jimmy Greaves, the all-time top goal scorer in top flight history, won it four times whilst at Tottenham. Nineteen different nationalities are represented and although the vast majority of players are English ...
Sir Stanley Matthews (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English footballer who played as an outside right.Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the British game and one of the greatest players of all time, [5] he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing football, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the ...
Players who came up just short of the 200 mark include Chris Chilton, Peter Doherty, Gary Lineker, Jack Smith, Freddie Steele and Andrew Wilson. Horace Barnes , Tony Brown and Bobby Charlton are the only midfielders to have scored over 200 goals in English football.
He is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time as well as one of Celtic's, Liverpool's and Britain's greatest ever players. [4] During his career, he made 338 appearances for Celtic and 515 for Liverpool , playing as a forward , and earned a record 102 caps for the Scotland national team , scoring 30 goals, also a joint record.
Peter Shilton has made the most appearances, and is the only player to have played in over one thousand games. Chris O'Grady made appearances for 17 different clubs, while 49 players made their appearances for only one team. Frank Womack is the only outfield player who failed to score a goal in his appearances, while Arthur Rowley scored 434.
In 1928, the British nations withdrew from FIFA, in a dispute over payments to amateur players. This meant that England did not enter the first three World Cups. The Three Lions first entered the World Cup in 1950 and have since qualified for 16 of the 19 finals tournaments to 2022.
He was appointed to the board of ICI, and died in 1965 of respiratory failure, having been a heavy smoker all his life. [26] His life is chronicled in the book All Round Genius – The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportsman, by Mick Collins. [26] Woosnam's uncle, Hylton Philipson, was a cricketer and played five Test matches for England.