Scott Parker is a midfielder who plays for English side Tottenham Hotspur and England. Parker was a graduate from The Football Association’s School of Excellence at Lilleshall before joining Charlton Athletic’s youth academy. He reached Charlton’s first team and established himself while they were a Premiership side. In the middle of the 2003/04 season Parker was, at age 23, sold to Chelsea for £10 million. That season he got his first senior England cap and was also named Young Player of the Year in English football. The following season he was struggling for a place in a strong Chelsea midfield with the likes of Makélelé, Lampard, Robben and Tiago. That season he also only got one more England cap.

In July 2005 Parker transferred to Newcastle United for a fee of £6.5 million. He quickly established himself in the team and looked likely to win a place in the England squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup but unfortunately became sick with glandular fever just a couple of months prior. The following season he was made captain for Newcastle and again he delivered consistently strong performances in the Premier League. He also won his third cap for England. At the end of the season Parker signed for West Ham for £7 million.

Parker played four years for West Ham. The first was marred by several injuries but the next three seasons had him voted Hammer of the Year by the supporters. After the 2010/11 season he was voted the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year in England. West Ham were still relegated to the Championship and on 31 August he signed for Tottenham, for a fee of £5.5 million. Parker has started the season at Tottenham in fine form and has in 2011 also finally established himself as a regular in the England team. He put on a Man of the Match performance when England beat World Champions Spain in a friendly at Wembley on November 12th.

Ashley Young is a winger who plays for Manchester United and the England national team. Young signed a five year deal with Manchester United yesterday. He made a name for himself at Aston Villa after first hitting the straps at Watford. Young made his move to Aston Villa in January 2007 and earned his first cap for England in November that year. He made 157 Premier League appearances for Aston Villa, scoring 30 goals.
Manchester United paid £16 million to release him from the last year of his contract, double the fee Villa paid Watford four and a half years ago.

Jack Wilshere is a midfielder who plays for English side Arsenal and England. Fabio Capello has indicated that the national team want to build their future around the talented 19 year old.
Wilshere is a product of the Arsenal youth academy and he made his senior competitive debut in September 2008, aged 16 years and 256 days. This was a new record for Arsenal, previously held by Cesc Fabregas. Wilshere is by many seen as the one who can take over Fabregas’ role if and when the captain might leave for Spain. He has displayed much of the same vision, movement and passing which is a trademark for the Spaniard.
In January 2010 Wilshere was sent to Bolton on loan for the remainder of the season. Back at Arsenal for the 2010/11 season he has managed to establish himself in the team. In September he was Arsenal’s Player of the Month. In October he scored his first Champions League goal, against Shakhtar Donetsk, and in November his first Premier League goal against Aston Villa.
For England Wilshere made his debut in August 2010, coming on as a late substitute in a friendly against Hungary. He earned his 2nd cap when he started in a friendly against Denmark February 9th 2011. Capello announced he wanted to use Wilshere in a Claude Makelele role as a holding midfielder. Wilshere did his role well, sitting just in front of the back four, delegating the ball around and moved forward when he could. Some football pundits have criticised that Wilshere is wasted in a holding role, instead he should be used in a creative role similar to that of his and Fabregas in Arsenal. It’s natural for him to move forward and that can leave England exposed at the back.
Wilshere’s future both at Arsenal and England will be followed with much interest.

Aaron Lennon is a right winger who plays for English side Tottenham and England. Lennon joined the youth squad at Leeds United at age 14. At that time Adidas also gave him a sponsorship of his boots, which he is the youngest player ever to have. He made his first team debut against Tottenham at White Hart Lane in August 2003, becoming the youngest player to appear in the Premier League at the age of 16 years and 129 days. Because of Leeds’ later financial problems, after being relegated to the Championship, Lennon was sold to Tottenham in June 2005.
The flying winger soon made an impact also for Spurs. He was nominated for PFA’s Young Player of the Year for three consecutive years. Lennon won the 2007-08 League Cup with Tottenham. He was Tottenham’s Player of the Year after the 2008-09 season.
Lennon made his first appearance at senior level for England just prior to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He went on to play both in the 2006 and 2010 World Cups.

Howard Webb is an English football referee and police sergeant. He first made his way into the Professional English football league as an assistant referree in 1996. In 1998 he progressed to assistant referee in the Premier League, the highest ranked league in England. From 2000 he was back in the Championship, League 1 & League 2 but as a referee. Since 2003 he has been a Premier League referee and in 2005 he also became one of FIFA’s international referees. His biggest honours so far have been to referee the 2010 FIFA World Championship final in South Africa, the 2010 UEFA Champions League final and the 2009 FA Cup final. Webb was born in South Yorkshire in 1971 and started refereeing in 1989. His father Billy Webb was also a referee.