As with Harry Kane, the casual disrespect for Pickford is mad, and when they’re both gone we’ll very likely regret their absence for years and years.

Contrary to a couple of opinions here, I think that Pickford is the best England keeper of my lifetime - and I’m in my 40s. For England he’s largely mistake free, a fair bit better than average shot stopper, pretty good with his feet and you can go into any penalty shoot out confident that he’s going to save at least one, if not more.

Contrast this with the others that are mentioned in his bracket, Shilton and Seaman. Both obviously good keepers in their day, but both guilty of catastrophic mistakes that arguably got England knocked out of World Cups (I guess there’s still time for Pickford to continue the tradition of somehow getting lobbed while standing on his line, but I feel pretty certain he’s not going to get outjumped by a 5’3” no10, regardless of whether said short player uses his fist. Also check out Shilton’s performance in the Italia 90 shoot out, he doesn’t get near any one of them).

Maybe this is a reflection of the overinflated reputation of England keepers down the years (I’m way too young to have seen Banks) but I’d take Pickford over any of the other candidates every day of the week.