Career in Pictures: Crystal Palace winger Andros Townsend

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Now 21, Townsend from QPR full of confidence and started the season in fine form for Tottenham.

This saw him included in the England squad for the first time for crucial World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.

Although he didn’t appear in those fixtures it was just a month later when he made his Three Lions debut, scoring and named Man of the Match in a 4-1 win against Montenegro.

Townsend’s name and picture was spread across the back page of every newspaper the night after that victorious night at Wembley Stadium.