Source: FOOTYMAD
Allardyce says Robinson should be in squad
Sam Allardyce, the Blackburn Rovers manager, has criticised Fabio Capello for continue to overlook the goalkeeper Paul Robinson. Robinson, 30, has more than 40 caps for the Three Lions but has not played for his country since England's failure to qualify for the 2008 European Championship. He has been included in only one of Capello's squads, when David James was injured for the World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan and Andorra. He did not play in either game, but was on the bench against Kazakhstan. His continued omission is something that Allardyce does not understand, arguing his form is as strong as any of the three keepers in Capello's 30-man provisional squad for South Africa. "If you look at his form for Rovers, there has not been a better goalkeeper who has been so consistent," he told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. "It clearly can't be anything else than Fabio has something else against him, because he has always said the people in form would get selected. There is nobody better than Paul Robinson at the moment, so there must be something before that that has happened to put him off him - as a person and not as a goalkeeper. "He has made the biggest mistake of his selection process has Fabio. As much as I respect him for what he has done, that is one big, big mistake. I am really disappointed for him and I am really disappointed Fabio hasn't selected him." Robinson went to the 2004 European Championship in Portugal as back-up to David James, but was first choice for the Three Lions during the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
