Quiz! Can you name the 50 all-time Premier League appearance-makers?

Peter Shilton. For the purists, that’s the name of England's record top-flight appearance maker with 849 games – although the mighty Shilts played over 1,000 league matches across the tiers.

Shilton was, of course, a goalkeeper, played mainly in an era of 142-game seasons [citation needed] and – crucially – he was playing before Rupert Murdoch invented football in 1992. No idea how he even did that.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.