| Mel Sterland, a nippy and hard-as-nails full back who also happened to be one of football's best crossers of the ball, won an England cap while in his prime at Sheffield Wednesday in 1988 (he is pictured above playing for the Owls in the year of his call-up). The game against Saudi Arabia in Riyadh was infamous, as it ended in a 1-1 draw and prompted tabloid headlines asking Bobby Robson to "Go In The Name Of Allah". Sterland later won League championship honours with Glasgow Rangers and Leeds, but Everton's Gary Stevens remained the set-in-stone occupant of England's right back spot for the bigger occasions, and the later progress of Paul Parker pushed Sterland further back. He didn't play for England again, but memorably kept a long-term promise to hand his first England shirt to the ageing scout who discovered him for Wednesday. The photographers lapped it up. (Matthew Rudd) |