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Warnock earns Sam support

31 Mar 2009 - 09:34:36

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Blackburn Rovers manager Sam Allardyce has backed Stephen Warnock to make a return to the England fold in the future.

The versatile 27-year-old made his one and only appearance for the national team in June last year against Trinidad & Tobago, but Allardyce feels that Warnock is worth a second look.

He told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph: "Stephen has a lot of competition in midfield for the England squad hasn't he.

"But everyone knows his main position is left-back and if ever they have a problem with Ashley Cole, maybe they see the form Stephen is in and knowing he is a left-back, they might give him an opportunity to step back in there.

"From our point of view just keep playing the way you are playing for Blackburn Rovers and things will look after themselves.

"In the long-term I do see him as a left-back."