Dele Alli capped a superb breakthrough season for Tottenham by winning the PFA Young Player of the Year award on Sunday.
England manager Roy Hodgson will now be hoping the talented 20-year-old can replicate his club form for his country at Euro 2016.
Here, Press Association Sport takes a look at three previous English winners of the prize and how they fared at the international tournament that summer.
Wayne Rooney, 2006
Rooney won the award after hitting 16 goals in his second season for Manchester United, but the explosive forward endured a nightmare World Cup in Germany. The 20-year-old was rushed back from a foot injury, but struggled for sharpness and was then sent off for a stamp on Portugal's Ricardo Carvalho as England bowed out in the quarter-finals on penalties.
Michael Owen, 1998
Owen scored 18 goals for Liverpool to take the prize, but was named on the bench for England's opening two matches at the World Cup that summer. Glenn Hoddle finally unleashed the frighteningly quick striker from the start in the final group game against Colombia and his faith was returned in the last 16 as Owen tore through the Argentina defence to score one of the most famous goals in England's history.
Paul Gascoigne, 1988
Gascoigne was voted the PFA Young Player of the Year and included in the Team of the Year after a brilliant final season for Newcastle, which would earn him a move to Tottenham for a British record £2million. The midfielder, however, was left out of the England squad for Euro 1988 and his blistering talent would not explode on to the international stage until the World Cup in Italy two years later.
Source: PA
