SPECIAL READER OFFER: ENGLAND PLAYERS’ RECORDS 1872-2020

Celebrate 1,000 England games and the upcoming 150th anniversary of the first ever international match with this comprehensive record of every player to have played for England. It has been ten years since the first edition of England Players’ Records was published, during which time more than 100 players have been capped for the national side. During that same time frame, no fewer than five players have joined the exalted ranks of centurions by winning their 100th cap. Only two managed to accomplish the same feat in the first 100 years of the England national team (Billy Wright and Bobby Charlton), and only two players joined them before the century was out (Bobby Moore and the all-time record holder, Peter Shilton). In a five-year spell between 2009 and 2014, they were joined by David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard. Rooney also passed Bobby Charlton’s tally of England goals but his record-breaking feats ended with his international retirement in August 2017. Also included in the book are those whose England careers were significantly shorter than the centurions, eg. Martin Kelly who came on for the final two minutes of a friendly against Norway in 2012, thus wresting the previously held record of shortest performance of eight minutes from Peter Ward and Jim Barrett. In addition to the newly-capped players, extensive research over the last decade by author and archivist Graham Betts has confirmed once and for all the identities of some of the previously obscure England players. This is a definitive and comprehensive compilation of England Players’ Records that no true fan will want to miss.

- PROFILING 1,200 PLAYERS - 290 PAGES - FOREWORD BY GEORGE COHEN