Aston Villa star wants to help West Brom pal
Sep 9 2009 by Mathew Kendrick, Birmingham Mail
JAMES Milner is desperate to help England overcome old foes Croatia in tonight’s World Cup qualifier – to do old friend Scott Carson a favour.
The Villa winger is close pals with the Albion goalkeeper, who will forever be remembered for the mistake which cost the Three Lions a Euro 2008 place.
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Milner and Carson never played together at Villa Park but got to know each other as youngsters at Leeds and have stayed in touch ever since.
And Milner believes tonight’s crunch Group 6 clash against Slaven Bilic’s men is the ideal opportunity to ease Carson’s misery once and for all.
The ex-Newcastle wideman has vivid memories of Carson letting Niko Kranjcar’s shot slip through his grasp at Wembley in November 2007.
