Football Manager has worked out the perfect ranking for England penalty takers

We don't need to tell you about England's history with penalty shoot-outs.

We don't need to, but we're going to anyway: over the last 26 years and 11 major competitions, our England have lost five penalty shoot-outs. Something needs to be done about our national complex - and fast.

So, to try and sort it out once and for all, we got in contact with the stat-brained buffs at Football Manager to give us a definitive ranking of who we should be sending up to take our precious spot kicks. 

With their abilities marked out of 20, it goes...

Jamie Vardy – Penalty Taking: 16

Wayne Rooney – Penalty Taking: 16

John Stones – Penalty Taking: 15

Harry Kane – Penalty Taking: 14

James Milner – Penalty Taking: 14

Daniel Sturridge – Penalty Taking: 12

Dele Alli – Penalty Taking: 12

Okay, so this one isn't so impressive.

Ross Barkley – Penalty Taking: 12

Jack Wilshere – Penalty Taking: 12

Danny Rose – Penalty Taking: 10