International Update

[Captain Splarg]

Robinson, Mills, Smith, Woodgate, and Bowyer have all been called into the 20-man squad to face portugal at Villa Park this saturday at 3pm BST.

Should be fun.... There are only 3 strikers total, so i expect Smith to have a lot of time.

only James is the other keeper so Robbo will get 45 min i think.

[BerwynBlazers]

Matteo is out of the Scotland match

[Captain Splarg]

England 1 - 1 Portugal


of course the goal was scored by Alan Smith. And guess who crossed it to him? No one else than Lee Bowyer. Mills had a good match at right back, and Woody had a quiet time at centreback, only making a few key tackles when required


Smith was also MOTM by sky.

Smith - 90min
Bowyer - 60min
Mills - 45 min (1'st half)
Woodgate - 45 min (2'nd half)

Robinson - 0 minutes :(

[BerwynBlazers]

Robinson, Mills, Woodgate, and Smith called up for qualifier against Slovakia and Macedonia.

Matteo is out 2 weeks, he is having the joint in his knee cleaned out tomorrow.

[BerwynBlazers]

Ian Harte, Gary Kelly, and Stephen McPhail are all in Ireland's squad for the qualifiers

[Captain Splarg]

and of course Olly is in the france squad....

(I'm changing the name of the thread)

[Captain Splarg]

Woody starts in the centre of defence alongside Southgate today against Slovakia.

Mills is replaced by Gary Neville (that's a slap in the face) and Robbo is of course on the bench while Seaman starts. There is no concrete news on Smith yet, but rumour has it that he will also be on the bench (even though he should start in my opinion)

[Captain Splarg]

Robinson didn't make the bench.
Mills stayed on the bench.
Woodgate played 90min and did quite well
Smith played started on the bench, but came on late in the match. He came on so late that he only played half a second (i'm not joking, i timed it.) there were 4 min of injury time and he came on at 4.10 about. The ref blew the whistle just after seaman kicked the ball for the restart.

[BerwynBlazers]

dacourt didn't play in the france game

[Captain Splarg]

Its been reported that Southgate will make way for Sol Campbell. That means Sol/Woody at the back.

Not sure about Mills or Smith's status yet, but people are calling out for Smith to start.

[BerwynBlazers]

Smith will start now because Heskey has pulled out with an injury.

[BerwynBlazers]

why alan why?
he gets a red car with a few minutes left to go in the game vs macedonia. woodgate played whole game and saved a ball off the goaline.

Kelly and Harte played for Ireland in their loss to Switzerland.

Dacourt came on for the last 20 minutes for France.

[BerwynBlazers]

Erik Bakke also played the full 90 for Norway against Bosnia.

[BerwynBlazers]

Robinson, Mills, Woodgate and Smith all called into England camp for next week.

Frazer Richardson got called up to England U-21.

Ian Harte and Stephen McPhail called up for Ireland squad against Greece.

[BerwynBlazers]

not to much happening for the leeds players on the first international day

paul robinson, danny mills sat on the bench for the england game

raul bravo sat on the bench for spain

for maybe the first time ever, there wasn't a leeds player starting in ireland's starting lineup as stephen mcphail sat on the bench the whole game

no one called up for englands u-21 team

norway plays luxembourg and maybe bakke will see some action this week along with lucic who goes up against hungary

[BerwynBlazers]

this forum needs a little action

Bakke is starting today vs Romania

McPhail & Harte are on the bench vs Georgia

Mills is starting with Robinson on the bench for England

[BerwynBlazers]

bakke plays full 90 for norway in 1-1 tie with romania

harte and mcphail sit on bench for the whole game for ireland

mills plays 43 minutes and is taken out for 'tactical reasons' for england. robinson sits behind a goalie from the 1st division in the depth chart.