.NRL superstar Herbie Farnworth can end up being just the sixth English player in background to succeed the distinguished Golden Footwear honor after creating the shortlist.The honor, which acknowledges the standout entertainers in international rugby league each year, will certainly be actually announced in very early December: as well as will definitely be actually determined by a number of the game’s great players that have reached out to 50 global caps consisting of England icon James Graham, Australia legend Darren Lockyer as well as Petero Civoniceva, who worked with each Australia and also Fiji on the worldwide performance.Dolphins facility Farnworth, who hails from the small town of Blacko in Lancashire, has actually been actually named on the six-player shortlist for the 2024 Golden Shoes award after his standout functionalities in England’s 2-0 Examination series win over Samoa on home soil this autumn.Farnworth deals with powerful competitors for the honor– with Australia trio Harry Grant, Tom Trbojevic as well as Isaah Yeo being actually chosen after the Kangaroos’ Pacific Mug succeed and also Tonga captain Addin Fonua-Blake and also New Zealand speedster Keano Kini.However if Farnworth was to succeed this year’s honor– along with the champion being actually revealed in early December– he will come to be merely the 6th English gamer in record to succeed the gong.Fabulous quartet Ellery Hanley, Garry Schofield, Andy Farrell, Kevin Sinfield and also Tommy Makinson are appreciating one another’s firm in a special club of English players to become called Golden Boot champions.The special nightclub of English Golden Boot champions.Ellery Hanley (1988 ).Garry Schofield (1990 ).Andy Farrell (2004 ).Kevin Sinfield (2012 ).Tommy Makinson (2018 ).QUIZ: Can you name every winner of the men’s Golden Boot award because 2000?The Golden Footwear award was founded in 1985 due to the British publication Open Rugby and also it was 1st rewarded to Australian symbol Wally Lewis for his performances throughout 1984– along with Garry Jack (1985 ), Brett Kenny (1986 ), Hugh McGahan as well as Peter Sterling (1987 ), Hanley (1988 ), Mal Meninga (1989) and Schofield (1990) additionally recipients of being actually crowned rugby organization’s ideal player for those particular fiscal year.No award was helped make in between 1990 and 1998 at the moment because of organisational difficulties– with Circle Publications Ltd acquiring the rights to the honor in 1999 and also started rewarding the Golden Shoes from that year on.The International Rugby Circle bought the rights to the award in 2017 as well as launched a females’s type in 2018– along with the wheelchair group coming a year later on.Whilst the Golden Shoes was formerly rewarded to rugby category’s gamer for their efficiencies throughout the calendar year for group and also nation, the honor was changed under the IRL’s semblance to displays solely on the worldwide stage throughout pointed out fiscal year.READ NEXT: Rank every Super Organization group through number of affirmed new finalizings for 2025.