England’s squad for Euro 2020: Southgate’s final 26 – in pictures

Dean Henderson

Manchester United 12 March 1997 Goalkeeper Like the former Liverpool and West Brom keeper Scott Carson, Henderson was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria, and his first steps in sport came at local rugby league club Kells. In the 2001 census, taken when Henderson was four and Carson 15, the town’s population was 24,054 - so approximately one in every 2,056 people in England lived there. Since 2001 one in every seven people to debut in goal for England has been from Whitehaven. When 14, his uncle Martin bet £25 that he would play for England, a gamble that has earned him £12,500.

Photograph: Eddie Keogh for The FA/Shutterstock

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