In an effort to clear up the confusion - and, it says, champion England's local identities - the government is publishing an online interactive map of county boundaries, external and how they overlap.

So here’s a map detailing the most significant current footballer to have emerged from each of England’s 48 counties (aside from the City of London, technically a county in its own right).

Thank you, @TechnicallyRon, for creating this marvel - a 'Google autocomplete' map of England. Yes, this is what you get when you Google in '[Name of county] is'. Possibly... It is, as he says ...