.NRL superstar Herbie Farnworth might come to be only the sixth English player in background to win the distinguished Golden Footwear award after creating the shortlist.The award, which acknowledges the standout performers in international rugby league each year, will definitely be revealed in very early December: as well as will definitely be chosen by some of the game’s excellent players who have actually gotten to fifty global limits consisting of England symbol James Graham, Australia legend Darren Lockyer and Petero Civoniceva, who exemplified both Australia and also Fiji on the global scene.Dolphins center Farnworth, that hails from the small community of Blacko in Lancashire, has actually been actually named on the six-player shortlist for the 2024 Golden Footwear award after his standout efficiencies in England’s 2-0 Exam series gain Samoa on home dirt this autumn.Farnworth encounters solid competitors for the honor– along with Australia triad Harry Grant, Tom Trbojevic and Isaah Yeo being chosen after the Kangaroos’ Pacific Mug gain as well as Tonga captain Addin Fonua-Blake as well as New Zealand speedster Keano Kini.However if Farnworth was actually to win this year’s honor– with the champion being actually introduced in early December– he is going to end up being simply the sixth English player in past history to win the gong.Fabulous quartet Ellery Hanley, Garry Schofield, Andy Farrell, Kevin Sinfield and Tommy Makinson are actually appreciating one another’s firm in a special club of English gamers to be called Golden Shoes victors.The exclusive club of English Golden Shoes victors.Ellery Hanley (1988 ).Garry Schofield (1990 ).Andy Farrell (2004 ).Kevin Sinfield (2012 ).Tommy Makinson (2018 ).TEST: Can you call every winner of the males’s Golden Footwear honor because 2000?The Golden Footwear award was actually started in 1985 by the British publication Open up Rugby and it was very first rewarded to Australian icon Wally Lewis for his performances throughout 1984– along with Garry Port (1985 ), Brett Kenny (1986 ), Hugh McGahan and also Peter Sterling (1987 ), Hanley (1988 ), Mal Meninga (1989) as well as Schofield (1990) additionally receivers of being determined rugby organization’s greatest player for those certain calendar years.No award was created between 1990 and 1998 at the time due to organisational challenges– with Circle Publications Ltd getting the civil rights to the award in 1999 as well as started granting the Golden Footwear from that year on.The International Rugby League bought the legal rights to the honor in 2017 as well as offered a girls’s group in 2018– along with the mobility device type coming a year later on.Whilst the Golden Boot was recently rewarded to rugby rank’s gamer for their efficiencies throughout the fiscal year for group as well as country, the award was actually modified under the IRL’s role to displays solely on the international phase in the course of said calendar year.READ NEXT: Rank every Super Organization group by number of confirmed brand-new signings for 2025.