A moment that will give hope to cold-shouldered big-club squad-padding

In today’s Fiver: heaven, hell, Matt Le Tissier, Big Cup draw, and the weird world of modern football There was a time – a long time – when good English players at unfashionable clubs would get repeatedly and demoralisingly ignored by England managers, who would then scramble to call them up the moment they took the fancy of a big team. Think, perhaps, of Paul Gascoigne, star of Newcastle’s midfield but ignored until a fortnight after his Tottenham debut, or Phil Jones, a