Shearer and Marsh up front in a team of club exile-enders

England manager Gareth Southgate’s decision not to play Ivan Toney against Italy or Germany means the Brentford striker remains uncapped and also extends an 83-year spell for the Bees without an active England international on the books, with one-cap wonder Leslie Smith the last player to represent the west London side way back in 1939.

Here’s an XI made up from those who did manage to end a club’s long period away from the Three Lions.

Goalkeeper: Gordon Banks
One of Leicester City’s longest serving players, Sep Smith was rewarded for his consistent displays with a solitary England cap in 1935. However, after the war the Foxes didn’t establish themselves as a regular fixture in the top flight until the late fifties and didn’t have an active England international on their books until a 25-year-old Gordon Banks made his international debut in a defeat to Scotland in 1963.

If you fancy a goalkeeper challenge, try naming the Premier League ‘keepers who broke long spells out of the England set-up for Burnley, Portsmouth, Watford and West Brom.

Right-back: Alf Ramsey
Banks would of course go on to become a reliable, long-term presence in the nets under iconic boss Alf Ramsey, who actually broke a club’s long spell in the England wilderness himself. Prior to his move to Spurs in 1949, Ramsey had established himself as one of the country’s leading full-backs at Southampton, with his performances leading to an international call-up in 1948 and a debut in a 6-0 thrashing of Switzerland. Before then, the last Saints player to line up for the Three Lions was Tom Parker in 1925.

Centre-back: Jack Charlton
A third World Cup winner starts for this side, with towering centre-back Jack Charlton breaking a 26-year hoodoo for Leeds United. Yorkshire-born star Wilf Copping returned home in 1939 shortly before the Second World War after a five-year spell with Arsenal and won the last of his 20 England caps as a Leeds player. Charlton’s late arrival on the international scene at the age of 29 in 1965 marked the beginning of several Elland Road stars of the era wearing the Three Lions, as the Whites became a force under Don Revie.

Centre-back: Zat Knight
One of Charlton’s team-mates in that monumental victory over Germany in ’66 was fellow defender George Cohen, who spent his whole club career at Fulham. Cohen’s last appearance for his country came a year after he lifted the World Cup and coincided with a downturn in fortunes at Craven…