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This is the only cap he has won since he joined the Clarets and he will be hoping to play a part next week and also hoping to score his first international goal which has so far eluded him. It would certainly be a good warm up for him if he could find the net at Wolves on Saturday although preferably this time in the right net.
It was remiss of us but a belated congratulations to Steve Davis who last Saturday against Brighton made his 300th league appearance for the Clarets not much short of 13 years since his debut at Lincoln.
Those appearances have come in three spells with the club and it was in 1989 that he signed for Frank Casper on loan where he even played alongside Steve Davis at the centre of our defence. He made nine appearances during the loan spell.
Less that two years later Frank signed him for £60,000 to replace the departed Steve Davis and he was to stay for four years before leaving at the end of his contract to join Luton Town. During this period, when he also captained the side in his last season, he notched up a total of 162 league appearances taking his total for the Clarets to 171.
We all thought that was it but in late December 1998 he returned for a third spell and again he has made well over another 100 league appearances, in fact the Brighton game was his 129th in this spell at the club and that takes him to the magical 300.
He becomes the first Burnley player to reach that total since Leighton James and only the 13th since football resumed after World War II. Those twelve names he joins are John Angus (439), Jimmy McIlroy (439), Alan Stevenson (438), Tommy Cummings (434), Jimmy Adamson (426), Martin Dobson (410), Brian Miller (379), Leighton James (336), Adam Blacklaw (318), Colin Waldron (308), Harold Mather (301) and Brian Pilkington (300).