"Actually proud" - Joe Marler ends England career with unwanted record

However, there's always the risk of being remembered for the wrong reasons. 

With that in mind, we've compiled a list of five unwanted England records players would rather forget. 

No England player has been carded more than the entertaining flanker, who spent an entire hour of his international career in the sin-bin.

The loosehead may have never managed a five-pointer for England over the course of his 73 caps, but it is still within his power to change that as he could force himself back into Steve Borthwick's plans (unless he retires again).

Reacting to his record, Marler said: "Some people might call me crazy but I'm proud of it. Us props aren't meant to score tries anyway,"

He was the first player to be issued a yellow card in a Test match after he stamped on Ireland’s Simon Geoghegan during their Five Nations Championship clash in Dublin in 1995. However, referee Patrick Thomas merely ‘showed’ Clarke the card with no sin-bin as at the time it was used as a warning only.

No one strives to be the second best at their chosen profession but sometimes circumstances dictate that you play a supporting role. Incredibly, Care has only started 38 of his 84 England caps.

Two little words were all it took for Hartley’s Lions dreams to crumble to dust. The 11-week ban that the former England captain copped for telling referee Wayne Barnes to “f— off” in Northampton’s 2013 Premiership final loss to Leicester put the nail in his Lions coffin.

 Ewels was shown a red card in the second minute of March's match against Ireland at Twickenham - the earliest sending off for any team since the championship began in 1883.