It’s not often that you hear of a father-son duo playing in the same team, or even for the same team in two different generations at best.

But for one current Premier League hero, he’s done the unthinkable and played against the same father duo – both coming in the English top-flight.

Of the players who have done it all in football, you can typically count upon trophies and goal tallies to signify just how successful those world-class stars are.

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But Premier League stalwart James Milner, formerly of Leeds United, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Manchester City and Liverpool, has a different achievement in his locker – by now playing with and against a father-son duo during his career in the top-flight.

The Leeds academy graduate, now at Brighton, is just 11 appearances from breaking Gareth Barry’s record of 653 outings in the competition – and two of those have seen him share a pitch with one of his former teammates and his son.

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James Milner and Patrick Kluivert joined Newcastle in the summer of 2004, although they didn’t share a pitch together for a while owing to substitution timings –...