40 years after their protest, Carlos and Smith were awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2008 ESPY Awards. Awarded by ESPN, ESPY Award is short for Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award. They got a standing ovation after being introduced by Colin Kaepernick who said on a video that the pair "had an impact on the heart and mind of millions and have been a huge inspiration to me, personally." He believes he started "a new life" the moment he stepped off the podium. To coin a famous Monday Night Football quote, young footballers may not dream of wanting to grow up to become the next Gary Neville but aspiring to be Reece James, Trent Alexander-Arnold or Joao Cancelo is most definitely on-trend. All three feature in the top four players according to Sky Sports' Power Rankings - which ranks every Premier League player based on points being awarded to players for 35 different statistics. Only Mohamed Salah is competing with them on that front.