Quiz! Can you name all 21 Belgians who played in the Premier League last season?

Romelu Lukaku

The late 2010s have definitely been the age of Belgium in the Premier League. Early on it was just a Gilles De Bilde here, an Emile Mpenza there, as Premier League clubs mainly tried to hoover up stars from France, then later Spain.

Yet as Belgium has produced a fine, insert-name-of-shiny-metal-here generation of talent, Premier League sides have pounced. With Belgian Pro League clubs not able to pay the big wages that top footballers can earn, plenty of great players have been drawn to England.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.