Nick Pope. Pic/AFP

There was a time Nick Pope never dreamed he'd be called into the England squad, but now the Burnley goalkeeper is hoping to be his country's number one at the World Cup. Pope, 25, has worked his way up through England's football pyramid, playing in the fifth-tier Conference as recently as four seasons ago. "It's a day I never thought I'd see come and now it's massive elation for me," Pope said on Tuesday. "Coming up through the leagues, some cold dark ones...you think the national team is too far away." Pope wasn't even a regular with Burnley until Tom Heaton suffered a dislocated shoulder in September.