I'm a passionate lad and I love it at Everton - Pickford

The similarities between Wayne Rooney and Jordan Pickford are striking. The mutual respect - and shared love of club and country - is obvious as the former team-mates sit down for an in-depth chat on the Wayne Rooney Show. Pickford and Rooney have played a combined 550 times for Everton and 202 times for England.

Rooney is England's all-time leading scorer and holds the record for the most England appearances - 120 - by an outfield player. Pickford recently broke the record for most consecutive clean sheets by a Three Lions goalkeeper and, Rooney believes, is on his way to becoming the country's best ever in his position. When they meet, the prospect of ending 60 years of hurt for England's men's team this summer is high on the agenda.

One will be at the World Cup as the undisputed number one, the other will be there as a pundit. "We need something as a nation to win," says Pickford, 32. "Any England ex-player...

I don't think they'll ever be jealous. Everybody needs it, it's only going to push the England badge forward. It's football, it's going to make it grow.