Paul Gascoigne

The most naturally and outrageously English player of his generation, Paul Gascoigne lit up the international stage with his talents for a decade and had it not been for England's agonising penalty shootout to West Germany at Italia 90, he would have graced a World Cup final.

First capped by Bobby Robson in a friendly against Denmark in 1988 but it was at the World Cup finals two years later that he was to make an inedible mark on the football world and come to close to steering the side into the final for the first time since 1966.