All-Time XI's

So, international football resumed recently, and while Harry Kane chased down Peter Shilton’s record of 125 England caps, it seemed as good a time as any to revisit an idea I had before the World Cup but could not execute: that of working out a way to compare the records of international players across time. International matches are much more frequent than they used to be. At first, in the 1870s, the only international match in the football calendar was the annual encounter