Best Concerned About Irish Snub

Last updated : 12 September 2011 By Footy Mad - Editor

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Leon Best: "If I keep scoring, even if the manager has forgotten about me, he's going to see me in the paper and when he sees it hopefully he remembers who I am.

"I don't know why I haven't been called up. It's the same thing with Ireland - I have never really been given a run, a good chance to prove that I am an international, as well as a Premier League player.

"But it will all come. If I do well for Newcastle and continue to score and play well and prove that I am a Premier League striker, then I should be given a chance.

"It's a funny game because when I was in my lows at Coventry I got a call up out of nowhere.

"Now I'm doing well at Newcastle, but I'm not playing international football.

"I have not played that many Premier League games, but it's good for me because the games I have played in, I have scored in.

"It's a good ratio for me and I intend keeping up that goals-to-game ratio the same.

"I have had no injuries, touch wood, and got some goals as well, so I am very confident.

"You have just got to get on with it, that's part of football.

"Whoever is coming to the club, they are to make the club better and make the team stronger."