The Football Association will answer calls to recognise England hero Frank Soo by awarding his family an honorary international cap, Sky Sports News can exclusively reveal.

Stoke City legend Soo, whose mother was English and whose father was Chinese, became the first player of Asian heritage to represent England when he appeared in a wartime international against Wales in 1942.

Raised in Liverpool - where he turned out for Prescott Cables as a teenager - Soo featured in nine England wartime matches between 1942 and 1945, and also played alongside Sir Stanley Matthews and Sir Matt Busby.

Like many other wartime internationals, Soo - who died in 1991 at the age of 76 - never received an England cap, despite wearing the Three Lions on his chest and representing England on the pitch durin

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