.NRL superstar Herbie Farnworth might end up being simply the sixth English gamer in past history to gain the distinguished Golden Shoes award after creating the shortlist.The honor, which identifies the standout artists in global rugby league yearly, will certainly be announced in very early December: as well as will be actually determined by a number of the activity’s excellent players that have actually gotten to 50 global hats featuring England icon James Graham, Australia legend Darren Lockyer and also Petero Civoniceva, that exemplified both Australia and also Fiji on the international scene.Dolphins centre Farnworth, that hails from the tiny town of Blacko in Lancashire, has actually been actually named on the six-player shortlist for the 2024 Golden Footwear award after his standout functionalities in England’s 2-0 Test collection get Samoa on home soil this autumn.Farnworth encounters solid competition for the award– along with Australia trio Harry Give, Tom Trbojevic and also Isaah Yeo being nominated after the Kangaroos’ Pacific Cup win as well as Tonga captain Addin Fonua-Blake and New Zealand speedster Keano Kini.But if Farnworth was actually to win this year’s honor– with the champion being actually declared in early December– he is going to become merely the sixth English gamer in history to win the gong.Fabulous quartet Ellery Hanley, Garry Schofield, Andy Farrell, Kevin Sinfield and Tommy Makinson are appreciating one another’s company in an unique club of English gamers to be named Golden Boot winners.The exclusive club of English Golden Shoes winners.Ellery Hanley (1988 ).Garry Schofield (1990 ).Andy Farrell (2004 ).Kevin Sinfield (2012 ).Tommy Makinson (2018 ).QUIZ: Can you name every winner of the males’s Golden Boot honor due to the fact that 2000?The Golden Footwear award was actually started in 1985 by the British magazine Open up Rugby and also it was actually first granted to Australian symbol Wally Lewis for his functionalities throughout 1984– with Garry Port (1985 ), Brett Kenny (1986 ), Hugh McGahan as well as Peter Sterling (1987 ), Hanley (1988 ), Mal Meninga (1989) as well as Schofield (1990) likewise recipients of being actually crowned rugby organization’s greatest gamer for those specific fiscal year.No award was helped make between 1990 as well as 1998 at the time due to organisational difficulties– with League Publications Ltd acquiring the civil rights to the award in 1999 and also began granting the Golden Footwear coming from that year on.The International Rugby League obtained the rights to the honor in 2017 and presented a women’s classification in 2018– with the mobility device category coming a year eventually.Whilst the Golden Shoes was actually previously rewarded to rugby league’s gamer for their performances throughout the calendar year for club and country, the honor was altered under the IRL’s semblance to displays entirely on the worldwide phase during the course of mentioned calendar year.READ NEXT: Ranking every Super Organization group through number of affirmed brand new finalizings for 2025.