100 up for Mr Consistency, the glue holding Wales together

Unflappable defender Davies brings up a century of caps and that calm will be needed against Belgium tonight

- Ben Fisher

As a 19-year-old Premier League footballer at Swansea, Ben Davies always took an eternity to leave the club’s training ground. In those days, he drove an old Volkswagen Polo with manual windows - much to the amusement of the rest of the squad - and autograph-hunting supporters kept him busy.

“Ben would wind down the window, say hello, have a photo, sign something, wind it back up and then 15 yards on another fan would stop him and he’d do it all over again,” says Alan Curtis, Swansea’s assistant manager at the time. “But he did it without fuss. He was a lovely boy and he is a gentleman now.”