Spot The Footballer Quiz

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As we've a week before our next game, get your brain into gear and see if you can name these footballers from the cryptic clues given. They are all well known Internationals from the past 50 years who have represented their country on numerous occasions. Please limit yourself to 5 answers to leave some for others and put all your replies in one post if possible. Oh - and please try and do this without Googling

1. After taking out Harold's eye, maybe he went on to bag a deer and a pheasant or two?
2. It's what ELK gets a pint of when he mixes his ales from Tadcaster and the Cannon Brewery.
3. His name describes what he probably did after missing out on the biggest game of all.
4. Going by the goddess of volcanoes he saved shirt writers about 20 letters.
5. I don't think he's a she but he might dance on the sand.
6. Not the subject of the Seekers song but he did live up to his surname, at least on the pitch.
7. Don't confuse this Scottish goal scorer with the US woman who still holds the 100m/200m World records.
8. Is it any wonder that this sharp dressed man is often voted as France's best ever?
9. Growing up, Uncle Fester and Lurch probably helped him develop his defensive skills.
10. A friendly policeman playing at The Skids favourite football ground?
11. He could have run out onto the field to The Spirit of Radio.
12. His life has been almost as eventful as that of this similarly named middle east sliver of land.
13. A Beatrix Potter character and a friendly ghost who have together been capped 238 times for their country.
14. Hiking along the North Norfolk coast I stumbled across this child's bear toy.
15. "One, Two, Three O'Leary". Say what you see to get this S6 favourite.
16. His name suggests a near miss but with 71 goals he tops his country's list of goal scorers.
17. Two England stars from the 60s/70s who also won Opportunity Knocks and had a hit with Welcome Home?
18. When Kylie was swinging from the chandelier in Neighbours the producers might be worried that she'd....
19. Add a vowel to this marketing clown to get a couple of World superstars.
20. Born in a caravan? This alliterative Superstar was just one letter away from being part of the clan.
21. A narrow passageway where you might find a purveyor of fine, exotic, prepared meats?
22. Not to be mistaken for this Dark Knight actor who stated "I'm not Welsh, I'm English"
23. Take a bit of Joseph Yule and a bit of Marion Morrison to get this goal scorer.
24. In addition to injuring Frenchmen he probably spent his time making brogues or Oxfords.
25. Shares a name with the venue where Captain Seve inspired the likes of Montgomerie and Langer to victory.
26. His devilish antics on the highest World stage in 2022 may point towards his lesser known first name.
27. Was his annual downtime from football spent working as a pollinator?
28. Did this apparition appear to Julie Andrews on top of the mountain?
29. He was on the pitch but did he cross the line in 1966?
30. In this half hour from the sixties, exchange one of the body parts for a tree product.
31. Does this describe that apple tree that tempted Adam?
32. What Tony Blair's chancellor might have done to safeguard the country's money.
33. You could say he was still one when he scored an important goal in a 1968 Wembley win.
34. This is what you end up with when you mix a Crossroads chef with a Latin version of Victoria's beau.
35. Super version of 2 beef patties, cheese, lettuce, pickles, onions, special sauce on a 3-slice sesame-seed bun?
36. This Indomitable Lion was 'King of the Road'.
37. At bedtime, Her Majesty would request that her husband do this before they began their prayers.
38. I say photograph you say photo. I say mayonnaise you say mayo. I say biography...…….
39. Gail and Martin's stroppy offspring.
40. Two English centre halves adjacent on the caps list, one's surname is the other's forename.
41. I guess if they ever needed to move Petra they'd call upon this removal firm?
42. A World Cup hero easily confused with Quo's front man.
43. The king of headed goals in the PL and taking his name as an order he would still be taller than most.
44. Elvis might tell you his aim was true when taking a penalty against him.
45. Shared a name, nationality and nastiness with Norman Stanley Fletcher's nemesis.
46. He had to live up to his name to become Ireland's most capped player.
47. Battling midfielder who's not to be mistaken as offspring of Compo's love interest.
48. As a clue giving team captain he was always spilling his drinks and leaving the set in disarray.
49. A message to you sir. Check for phlegm in your hair!
50. Working between two buildings in Glasgow and need to get up high? Use this perhaps?
51. Is this what the painter of Starry Nights and Sunflowers set up in order to sell his wares?
52. Two forwards, eighty years apart who by first names could be mistaken as this bowler hatted comedy duo.
53. The Clash fought this Scotsman and he won.
54. Name reflects one side of Offa's Dyke, played for and managed the other side.
55. Say his name in the US and you'd probably hear Katrina or more recently Milton or Helene.
56. Terminator actor portrays a great Macedonian leading a waterborne attack on Nottingham.
57. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it probably can't take penalties!
58. Siblings but I don't think either sang "I don't know much, but I know I love you" to Linda Ronstadt
59. It's quite a surprise that Plato and Aristotle weren't his midfield partners.
60. England player who is one vowel short of having to make his own caps.