ENGLAND - UP YER ARSE

At the press conference called to announce the England quad Eriksson was asked if he had considered leaving the England manager’s job when Crozier resigned:

"I have never had any real wishes to leave but if they wanted to change too many things in my job, of course. I want to be a free man, I want to report to one man not two, three, four or five if I have a problem. If I want to play a friendly against this team or that team I need one person to say yes or no."

Beckham, Scholes, Butt, Gary Neville and Ferdinand have been called up to the England squad.

There was also a place for Jonathan Greening.

England squad in full

David Seaman (Arsenal), David James (West Ham), Paul Robinson (Leeds), Gary Neville (Manchester United), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Sol Campbell (Arsenal), Gareth Southgate (Middlesbrough), Jonathan Woodgate (Leeds), Ashley Cole (Arsenal), Wayne Bridge (Southampton), David Beckham (Manchester United), Nicky Butt (Manchester United), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Paul Scholes (Manchester United), Owen Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Kieron Dyer (Newcastle), David Thompson (Blackburn), Danny Murphy (Liverpool), Trevor Sinclair (West Ham), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Jonathan Greening (Middlesbrough), Emile Heskey (Liverpool), Michael Owen (Liverpool), Alan Smith (Leeds), Darius Vassell (Aston Villa).

Michael Stewart has been named in Rainer Bonhoff's Scotland under-21 side to face Belgium in Molenbeek on November 19.