England Call-Up!

[Napster]

Tom Jordan and Roscoe d'Sane...

England National Game XI boss Paul Fairclough has been forced to make changes to his squad for Tuesday night's friendly against a Belgium Under-20 team at Darlington. .

After calling up Tamworth pair Scott Rickards and Tom Jordan, Fairclough added Accrington captain Peter Cavanagh, Canvey defender Gavin Cowan and Aldershot midfielder Anthony Charles.

England National Game XI squad: Goalkeepers: Phil Smith (Margate), James Bittner (Exeter City).

Defenders: Gavin Cowan (Canvey Island), Peter Cavanagh (Accrington Stanley), Tom Jordan (Tamworth), Lewis Hogg (Barnet).

Midfielders: Anthony Charles (Farnborough Town), Chris Murphy (Telford United), Sam Ricketts (Telford United), David Perkins (Morecambe).

Forwards: Anthony Elding (Stevenage Borough), Luke Rodgers (Shrewsbury Town), Roscoe D'Sane (Aldershot Town), Aaron McLean (Aldershot Town), Scott Rickards (Tamworth).

[Matt the Shrimp]

Blimey. What's the "National Game XI"? Are they all on the game, or something?

Presumably it's the England Amateur XI; that being so, why don't they call the team that?

Matt

[steveh1510]

Its Semi-pro's so basically Matt, yes

National Game XI (http://www.thefa.com/application?origin=template.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.refresh&pageid=maximise&pageName=england_nationalgamexi&pillar=england&navMax=true)

[chadded]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Nov. 04 2003,16:31)]Presumably it's the England Amateur XI;
Correct.

[McScriven]

Tom Jordan f**k me!

The turning circle of a large cruise linear the ability of Napster, and now he's representing oh country!

[bluesinab]

What a group of misfits - the only one I think might be any good is Rodgers at Shrewsbury, and I might be getting confused between his real ability and his perceived ability on Championship Manager - which is easy to do when you're on the other side of the world and don't see many games. A little bit off topic, CM seems to think that Mark Warren is one of the best defenders in England - I tried to sign him for Blues and he laughed at me!

[Bigdel]

I tried to get rid of Emberson from CM,and blow me no one wants him

Blues 4 ever

[TerryintheWest]

Also James Bittner the Exeter City keeper was on a week's trial at Southend during the close season. Southend preferred Ryan Robinson to him, I'd have chosen Bittner. http://www2.shrimperzone.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif