article_snippet: Ask everybody involved with Ross Barkley at Everton or with England and Everton or with England will come up with a different answer.
article_snippet: Barkley has had such a billing since Barkley first broke in to the Everton them, with comparisons to the late, great Alan Ball, to the mercurial talents of Paul Gascoigne over recent times, that Barkley name creates mild hysteria whenever his name is mentioned.
article_snippet: It seems particularly unfair to compare Barkley with Ball, a man who controlled the tempo of matches when Barkley was playing for Everton, Arsenal and England.
article_snippet: Barkley was also, notably, a World Cup winner.
article_snippet: It should also be remembered that Paul Gascoigne, who had a far better goalscoring record at Newcastle, had to wait until Barkley was 21 to make Barkley England debut, against Denmark in 1988.
article_snippet: Barkley has been compared with Alan Ball - pictured on the left celebrating England's 1966 World Cup win .
article_snippet: Paul Gacoigne - an England hero at the 1990 World Cup - is another former star Barkley has been likened to .
article_snippet: Barkley made Barkley England debut in 2013 - Barkley
article_snippet: Barkley featured against Scotland last year but was on the receiving end of a Hodgson blast at Parkhead .