Henry Winter is the Chief Football Writer of The Times, the current Sports Journalists' Association Football Writer of the Year and a four-time winner of the SJA Specialist Correspondent award. He loves the England national team with a passion that borders on masoschism and has covered their last 244 games from Wembley to Beijing, Chicago to Rio. Along with Wayne Rooney and Roy Hodgson, he also has the third English vote for the Ballon d'Or award for the world's best player.