Source: Team_Talk
Caldwell dreaming of Oslo run-out
The Burnley captain was named in George Burley's 23-man squad on Tuesday and now hopes to win his first cap in more than three years.
Burley singled out the 28-year-old for special praise after the defender led the Clarets into the top flight of English football for the first time since 1976.
With Celtic star Gary's usual defensive partner Stephen McManus out injured, there now appears every chance of an all-Caldwell centre-back pairing in Oslo next week.
The duo, who both failed to make the grade as youngsters at Newcastle, have started together for Scotland once before.
That was in a World Cup qualifier in Moldova almost five years ago, in a match which saw Gary play right-back.
"We've both been fortunate enough to play with each other before so it would be tremendous to play alongside him," said Steven, who earned the last of his nine caps in March 2006.
"We've never actually played centre-back together.
"I think he played right-back the game that we played together in the qualifier in Moldova so it would be an unbelievable honour and something I look forward to.
"I'm pretty selfish - we all are in football - and I just want to be on the park."
Caldwell revealed he had learnt of his recall days before the squad was announced.
"I knew before everybody else," he said after being preferred to Rangers veteran David Weir, whose distinguished international career appears to be over.
"The gaffer had a call from George Burley and he told him that he was going to be putting me in."
Caldwell was still a Sunderland player when he was last capped and a drop out of the Premier League coincided with the loss of his international place.
"It's felt like a long time," Caldwell said.
"Basically, since I came to Burnley, I was out of the squad.
"I think I was maybe in one squad when I first signed and I've been out since.
"But that's one of things that sometimes happens and you just keep working away and hope that one day you can get back in there."
He added: "It's been a long time but I'm relishing the prospect of maybe representing my country again."
Caldwell, who joined Burnley in January 2007, has no intention of letting his standards slip after finally getting back in the international fold.
"I enjoyed last season and I was playing regularly in a successful team," he told his club's official website.
"Hopefully, I can push on and have another great season this year.
"It's something that I'd hoped would come but I've said a lot of times I wasn't going to dwell on it or worry about it too much.
"I knew that eventually if I was to play well then a chance would come along and I'd get back in there."
