United legend backs Neville

Bryan Robson

United legend and former captain, Bryan Robson, has backed Gary Neville to be recalled to the England squad after Fabio Capello left the current club captain out of his squad.

England's next two fixtures are against Kazakhstan and Belarus over the next week and a half. Wes Brown and Glenn Johnson (of Portsmouth) have been picked as the two right full backs in the squad ahead of Neville - who last played for England in the 1-0 defeat at the hands of Spain.

Neville first of his 85 caps for his country was against Japan in 1995 as a youngster. Neville is the 9th most capped player ever for England one behind Kenny Samson and one ahead of former Red Ray Wilkins.

Robson, who made 90 appearances for his country (26 goals) and 437 (99 goals) appearances for United, believes that Neville will be back involved again soon. Robson was no stranger to injury also and picked up a number of injuries during his United and England career.

Robson was quoted as saying "I’m sure that Gary will be involved with England again. When you get quite a serious injury as he has it nearly always affects you and you get other injury niggles which Gary has had unfortunately. I still don’t think that will affect him as far as getting back in the England reckoning though. He’s definitely got time to come back. You never know in this game. We have some decent full-backs now but people can get injured and suspended and I’m sure Gary will be there to step in if that happens."

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