Alan Smith reminds us of his first and last appearance for England
Sky Sports’ Alan Smith reminds us of the first and last appearance for England in addition to telling us all about his very best performance for his nation.
It had been Saudi Arabia away. Because we flew on Concorde which was a thrill in 14, I recall.
I got on as a sub and it wasn’t a performance by me. I believe we drew but I remember Bobby Robson, that he gave a and it was going on and on and on for a time. Don Howe, his helper was stood next to him and eventually Bobby turned to him and said”Have you got anything to add, Don?” Don said:”I think we let the lads get changed. There is only 20 minutes until kick-off.” But this was Bobby. He loved to talk about soccer.
I am fairly well known for substituting Gary Lineker against Sweden in Euro 92, that have been memorable for England. I got warmed up together with Alan Shearer.
Graham Taylor advised us to heat up and I got called back instead of Shearer, who was a young boy. I thought I’d be heading on to associate Gary, who had been my partner at Leicester back from the day, but he came , I proceeded .
I didn’t have enough time to think about it actually. I just wanted to attempt to do my best, however it did not really work out.
I scored a Qualifier’s only objective in Wembley, that was. It was against Turkey and my family were up in the stand.
We didn’t play well in the second half and we got booed off the pitch but I still didn’t care.
I had got the only aim of this game for my nation in order that was enough, to get us things in a qualifier.
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