Quiz! Can you name the top 50 Premier League goalscorers who’ve NEVER played a World Cup game?

Important: An asterisk denotes that a player is in his nation's squad for the 2018 World Cup (but has yet to play a World Cup game). Correct answers also include players who were picked for World Cup squads, but took no part in any match.

There, that’s the admin done – now time to delve into the strange world of how a footballer can score over a hundred goals in The Greatest League in the World™ and yet never take part in a World Cup game.

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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.