Former Arsenal striker Francis Jeffers scored on his England debut in 2003 against Australia, making his first appearance for the country alongside Wayne Rooney. Only one of them went on to become a great in football.

Jeffers was one of 11 players brought on by Sven-Goran Eriksen at half-time in an international friendly at Upton Park. Rooney partnered Jeffers in attack but it was the latter who scored, meeting a Jermaine Jenas cross at the near post.

However, Rooney went on to become England's all-time leading scorer and won all of the top club honours with Manchester United. Jeffers, on the other hand, failed to live up to his potential.

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At Under-21 level, Jeffers scored 13 goals in 16 matches - a record that he held with Alan Shearer before Eddie Nketiah surpassed both the strikers in 2020.

The Gunners paid £8million for his services in June 2001 after catching the eye of Arsene Wenger but his opportunities were limited. He scored just eight goals in 39 games before he went on to play for Charlton, Ipswich Town, Blackburn Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday and Motherwell before retiring in 2013.

"I was out partying, living life, tossing it off in training because I always thought I wouldn't play Saturday anyway," he told the Independent in 2014. "Now, I look back with a lot of regrets."

"That is where I should have been putting it in more. Wenger gave me a fair crack of the whip. I haven't got a bad word to say about him. He tells you how it is, one of the only managers I played who did.

"He said there were things going on in my head that shouldn't have been and that it was an important time in my career. I am not saying I threw it all away, because I had a decent career.

"I fulfilled a lot of ambitions but I always say it, I know how much ability I had. I'm not soft. I know how good a player I was. One England cap wasn't enough."