Marcelo Bielsa developing Leeds United's potential England stars eighteen years after Whites pair inflicted pain on Argentina

Phillips was thought to be heading for his first international call-up for the April friendlies against Denmark and Italy until the games were cancelled due to the nation's fight against coronavirus.

Nonetheless, hopes are high that Leeds United Football Club will soon have their next England international with Ben White and Jack Harrison also tipped for future Three Lions calls.

And 18 years ago today, two Whites players helped their country sink an old enemy at the 2002 World Cup as Sven-Göran Eriksson's England recorded a 1-0 victory against an Argentina team managed by today's Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa.

Danny Mills and Rio Ferdinand were the two Leeds players in question with the duo having helped David O'Leary's Whites to a fifth-placed finish in the 2001-02 Premier League.

Mills and Ferdinand then formed part of a Whites quartet boarding the plane to Asia as part of Eriksson's squad for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

England were looking to end what was then 36 years of hurt with the Three Lions seeking a better showing than the one experienced in the 1998 World Cup in France in which Glen Hoddle's side crashed out in the last 16. On penalties. Obviously.