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Johnson Ineligible and Wright Not in Shockers - Ipswich Town News

In a sensational development in the David Johnson international saga, Scotland boss Craig Brown has discovered that the Town striker is not eligible to play for his side after all.

As Johnson's mother was English, the Blues frontman doesn't qualify for all of the home nations after all, only England, as well as his native Jamaica. A 1993 agreement between FIFA and the UK football associations stated four criteria for a player's qualification for a national team.

This agreement stated that "Where the player, both natural parents, and both natural grandparents are born outside the UK, but the player is the holder of a current British passport, he may play for the country of his choice."

With Johnson's mother coming from England it seems he is in fact not able to choose who he plays for.

Johnson now has the rather more limited choice of playing for either England, who Kevin Keegan has said he won't play for under his management, or Jamaica where Yardies reportedly claim they are going to kill him. Hmm.

Meanwhile, Town keeper Richard Wright has not been named in Kevin Keegan's squad for the games against Scotland. This means that Town are definitely without Matt Holland for the game on November 12th against Tranmere.

Full England squad: Seaman, Martyn, Walker, Campbell, Adams, Keown, Southgate, R Ferdinand, Froggatt, Sinclair, P Neville, Guppy, Ince, Wise, Redknapp, Parlour, Beckham, Scholes, McManaman, Heskey, Shearer, Phillips, Owen and A Cole.

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