With Ashley Cole retiring from football after winning 107 England caps, we should celebrate those who won one cap; in the England list, I counted 357 one cap wonders, including Albert Stubbins.
Mind you, that depends on which "source" you use.
Albert was born in the USA and ended up living in Wallsend, attending Carville School in 1929. He started his footballing career at Newcastle United playing 231 times and scoring 188 goals from centre-forward.
This stimulated a move after the war to home town Liverpool for a record £12,500 in 1946 and he helped his new team to the League Championship in 1946-7. He retired in 1953 appearing 178 times for Liverpool, scoring 83 goals.
As a Liverpool celebrity he appears n the cover of St Pepper's...you can spot him.....
The reason I choose Albert is because he is a ONE CAP wonder and he played for England against Wales on October 20th 1945 at the Hawthorns, a game England lost 0-1. ***
He died in 2002 aged 82. Spot him on the cover!
*** Note that when England played Wales in 1943, a war time international, Stan Mortenson made his international debut playing for Wales against England. Picked as a reserve for England, he was sitting on the England bench in his RAF uniform. Wales lost their winger Ivor Powell to injury and Stan stepped up to help out as the Welsh had no 12th man-it was the war!
Here are a few more ONE CAP WONDERS: Neil Ruddock, Steve Guppy, Ryan Shawcross, David Unsworth, Jimmy Case, Chopper Harris, Frazer Campbell, Michael Ricketts, Billy Bonds, Steven Caulker, David Nugent.
Chris Kirkland's dad laid a bet when Chris was 11 that he would be an international; worth £10,000.
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