"'Absolutely no chance', admits Burn, eight months on. I had no idea about it until the day after the West Ham game [nine days after the dinner, and four days before the official announcement], when I got a text off him [Thomas Tuchel]. I think that helped in hindsight, not knowing that the England manager is watching the games. I just went out and did my normal thing."
"Five days after scoring at Wembley he was back inside the same stadium to make his Three Lions debut. I wasn't even nervous getting to any of the England games. To everybody else it's a big thing, but to me, I've just played the biggest game of my life. So, England is a bonus. I was never expecting this, so I was just enjoy"
Dan Burn scored at Wembley and helped his boyhood club win the League Cup, then received an England call-up from Thomas Tuchel shortly afterwards. He traveled to St. George's Park to meet his new international team-mates and made his Three Lions debut on the same pitch where he had scored five days earlier. Burn said he had not expected the selection and felt no extra nerves because he had already played the biggest game of his life. He initially believed there was 'absolutely no chance' of selection and focused on performing his normal role for the club.
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