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Jake Polden

Trent Alexander-Arnold and Conor Gallagher on the England stars they want to emulate

Trent Alexander-Arnold and Conor Gallagher have been reminiscing on their childhood World Cup memories - and are hoping to go one step better than their England heroes.

Liverpool full-back Alexander-Arnold was only eight years old when England were knocked out of the 2006 World Cup quarter-finals by Portugal. He remembers Joe Cole's impact on that tournament and Zinedine Zidane's infamous headbutt that cost France the World Cup against Italy.

"Probably 2006 [is the first World Cup I can remember], I remember part of that," Alexander-Arnold told Mirror Football, on behalf of the JD King of the Game campaign. "I remember Joe Cole's goal against Sweden, I remember [Zinedine] Zidane's penalty. That's kind of it really, I was still young but I remember them.

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