After looking at the worst left-backs in Premier League history last time, we are now moving on to the centre-backs, and there has certainly been some poor defenders to grace English football over the past thirty years.

Like goalkeepers, though, centre-backs do have a thankless job at times. They are only really given credit when they make a goal-saving tackle and very little else.

Their mistakes can cost goals, and it means you really have to have the right mentality to play the position, especially in England where the pace of the game is so high.

Press the next page as we go through our top five worst centre-backs to have played in the Premier League era.