Hughes is a Manchester United legend and enjoyed a fantastic career with the club, where he scored a total of 160 goals.

The striker enjoyed two spells with United between 1980-1986 and 1988-1995. In between he had spells with Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

At Old Trafford Hughes was extremely successful and collected League Cup, FA Cup, European Cup Winners Cup and Premiership winners trophies.

In his final season Hughes helped Sir Alex Ferguson's men to the domestic double - before moving to west London to join Chelsea.

In three years at the club he picked up managed another FA Cup and picked up a second European Cup Winners Cup medal after success over Stuttgart.

Hughes's next port of call was Southampton, but by this time he already had an eye for management and in 1999 took temporary charge for Wales following Bobby Gould's departure.

He soon earned himself a four-and-a-half year deal as boss and hung up his playing boots at the age of 38 - after brief spells at Everton and Blackburn.

Hughes has done a great job as Wales manager and narrowly missed out on qualification for Euro 2004 after defeat in the play-off's against Russia.

His achievements led to the reward of an OBE earlier this year - and last month became the new manager of Blackburn.

Hughes has agreed to stay on as national coach for their qualification games against England and Poland - but will then leave the post to concentrate on his career in club management.

And Hughes will look at the match against England to provide one more surprise to delight Welsh supporters.

Mark Hughes Factfile

Nationality: Wales (72 caps, 16 goals)
Date of Birth: 01 November 1963
Place of Birth: Wrexham, Wales
Height: 174 cm
Weight: 77 kg 

Year

Club

Apps

Goals

1983/84

Manchester United

11

4

1984/85

Manchester United

38

16

1985/86

Manchester United

40

17

1986/87

Barcelona

28

4

1987/88

Barcelona

0

0

1987/88

Bayern Munich*

18

6

1988/89

Manchester United

38

14

1989/90

Manchester United

37

13

1990/91

Manchester United

31

10

1991/92

Manchester United

39

11

1992/93

Manchester United

41

15

1993/94

Manchester United

36

11

1994/95

Manchester United

34

8

1995/96

Chelsea

31

8

1996/97

Chelsea

35

8

1997/98

Chelsea

29

9

1998/99

Southampton

32

1

1999/00

Southampton

20

1

1999/00

Everton

9

1

2000/01

Everton

9

0

2000/01

Blackburn Rovers

29

5

2001/02

Blackburn Rovers

21

1


Statistics refer to league appearances/goals only
* loan spell