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Article: McClaren to stick with Robinson for Estonia game
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 10, 2007
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The decision by the England manager was told to the press even
before he informed the player himself. McClaren was in equally
expansive mood when it came to the striker Michael Owen, whom he
also backed to play on Saturday.
Given the doubts raised by Owen's club manager, Sam Allardyce,
over his player's fitness to play in both the Estonia game and the
Russia tie four days later, it would appear that the England manager
was keen to put down an early marker.
But it was the issue of Robinson that was the most striking in a
candid discussion by McClaren of his team's preparations yesterday
just an hour after their first training session of the week. It also
appears that Bill Beswick, the team ...