Young Gets The Call

Yellow Fever is very happy for one of our favourite ex-hornets Ashley Young, who has this morning, received a phone-call from second-choice Steve, asking him to replace globe-trotting David Beckham who has knee-knack, in the England squad. Ash and Blackburn's David Bentley have been drafted into the squad for the crucial qualifiers against Israel and Russia next week. Congratulations Ash. Only wish you could have got the call whilst in a yellow shirt.

Bentley you'll remember refused to play for the England at the European U21 championships this summer, citing "burnout". Many observers thought that this would damage his full international chances, but it would appear McClaren is really desperate following the broken leg sustained by Keiron Dyer that will keep him from international football for around 9 months (stop cheering at the back).

"I thought it was the right decision to leave him [Bentley] out last time. He accepted that and he paid the consequences [he missed a pointless friendly match] but this is a new squad and he is in it and he deserves to be in it." Said McClaren, forgetting that this is and emergence draft and he had not considered Bentley good enough for the original squad.