Top 5 Players Never To Have Been Capped By Their Country - 4

Jimmy Case

4. Jimmy Case

Blessed with one of the fiercest shots ever seen in this country, local hero Jimmy Case was part of the first Liverpool side to dominate European football. An academy product, Case made his debut for the Reds in 1973 at the tail end of Bill Shankly’s Liverpool dynasty. Little did he know what lay in store for the team under the stewardship of Shankly’s assistant, Bob Paisley. A winner of 4 league titles and an exceptional 3 European Cups, Case remarkably, was never named in an England squad. Playing at a similar time to Ron Harris, Case can be similarly stunned that he was never capped given England’s barren spell at the time. Unfortunately Don Revie and Ron Greenwood are no longer with us to answer for the decade long exclusion of Case. It seems unfathomable to the average fan that any player who has appeared in 3 European Cup finals wouldn’t be given his chance at international level. Rightly regarded as a legend around Anfield, Jimmy Case joins an unfortunate list of players who were never called upon by the ailing England team of the 1970s.