Quiz! How many of the 114 current Premier League players who’ve been to a World Cup can you name?

Must be great being a Premier League footballer and owning a Bang & Olufsen fridge, SMEG glasses and living out your childhood dream of playing for United, or City, or Rovers or whatever.

Yet these lads have gone a step beyond – each has played Premier League football in 2017/18 and travelled to a World Cup finals with their country. That can be anything from a German World Cup winner to someone who sat on the bench for England in 2010. Less fun, but they all count.

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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.