I'll go and put on my England shirt and support them now that we're out.
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He gave me my England debut and for someone to pick a defender for England at 18, like he did with me, takes balls.
Lewsey, reading out a pre-prepared statement, thanked "all the coaches, medics and especially the players that have made my England career so memorable over the past 10 years".
"It's absolute rubbish to suggest my England career is over and that I've decided to call it a day on the international scene, " Ince said in The Mail on Sunday.
It gives me a massive kick that I am still thought good enough to come back and play at international level, but I've gone too far down the line in battling my stress problems to change my mind about now ending my England career.
In recent years my home in England is my principal photographic subject.
On one of my final days in England, I made my way on blistered foot to the south bank of the Thames, past the site of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, to the place where my grandparents had made their balloon trip.
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"I have enjoyed my time in England and am able to get on with playing rugby which I enjoy, " he said.
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I've already admitted that losing the captaincy hurt but that's in the past and all I want to do now is move forward and carry on giving my best for England.
When you start the game you set your goals as high as they possibly can be, and following up my club captaincy with leading out England remains one of my foremost ambitions.
Obviously I have no idea of what goes on behind the doors of the England changing room but from a purely bowling option Steve Harmison would always be in my first XI for England.
While we lived in England, my aunt and uncle would come out to visit and take trips with us through Europe.
That is why I didn't want to go to England with my brother Victor, who also looks after Adrian, because I knew the story was true.
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"I look down south and I see what's gone on in England with my mate Owen Coyle - what's happened to him how he's kicked on - it's fantastic, " he said.
In my view, New England fans spoiled rotten, but the Patriots, the Red Sox, the Celtics - and they're playing New York, who, in my view, is the auto-enemy of everything good.
But this Sunday I will be pounding the streets of my hometown Brighton, southern England, having done almost no preparation.
When Her Majesty came to my home town in northern England, I was part of a boys choir that sang for her.
Lima beans were a staple in my mother's New England kitchen, bridging the span between autumn's bounty and the harvest of spring vegetables.
My parents always stuck by me in my youth and after several England tours of not actually featuring, it feels really good to get a go now.
"The England game is my target, " said Henson.
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"It is my goal to play for England again but I've been out for two years and I wouldn't ever to want to come across as that guy who would assume he's got what it takes to play, " he said.
After that, I read everything about England I could get my hands on: geography, geology, architecture, folklore, fiction, place-names, pottery, poetry and plants.
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"Despite what has been written in some newspapers, I have not had a row with the England team management about my knee injury, " Gough said.
Imagine my shock when I arrived in England bursting with all that knowledge gleaned from the books I had read and from a few well-behaved British tourists I had met in my town, only to be confronted by the screaming headlines of the tabloids and pictures of scantily-clad models baring most of their assets.
My Dallas friend has just returned from England, so the two get to talking.
Returning to England after the war, my mother remarried and started a family, which grew to include me and my two sisters.
Certainly, at the moment my focus isn't on being England captain, it's on winning a rugby league game against New Zealand on Saturday.
"It's nice that he is there - he's my coach, " he said at England's O2 Scrum on the Beach event at Trafalgar Square.
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