Sport 30-08-2000 Keegan`s Squad Cursed By Injuries who: Kevin Keegan what: May call up Chris Sutton to injury-ravaged squad where: Stade de France, Paris when: Saturday snippet: "We`re not this desperate" says the astonished Mirror this morning, as Kevin Keegan last night revealed at a press conference that he is "lining up super-flop Chris Sutton for an amazing England call up." Sutton, whose form seems to have returned at his new club, Celtic, was dropped by Chelsea after scoring only one Premiership goal last season. He may now stand in at Saturday`s friendly against France for either Andy Cole (sore achilles tendon) or Kevin Phillips (shoulder injury). "The England coach called Alan Smith, the 19-year-old Leeds forward, into the squad after losing four players - Rio Ferdinand, Gary Neville, Emile Heskey and Steven Gerrard - through injury," says David Lacey in The Guardian. "Steve McManaman has flu and Andy Cole and Kevin Phillips did not train yesterday". "The one irony," notes The Telegraph`s Henry Winter, "was that the footballer known as `Sick-note`, Darren Anderton, who has pulled out of every Keegan squad in which he has been included, was fit, well and looking lively in training." "I`ve decided what I want to do in an ideal world but I`ve got to wait for the personnel to come through," said a disconsolate Keegan yesterday. "For some reason we are picking up a lot of injuries. Maybe it is because we have started the season with three games in a week, sometimes two games in three days." [... more]

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