Aaron Cresswell was settling down for dinner with his girlfriend when he received the most important phone call of his career to date.
With Danny Drinkwater having withdrawn from the England squad because of injury the West Ham full-back got the call and was on hs way..
He told Betway Insider “She had just cooked the tea at around six o’clock.
“I looked at my phone and it was the physio calling. He said: ‘Aaron, you’ve been called up to the squad.’”
Cressie was then rushed into a car and whisked away to join the rest of the national team.
“I got the call from the FA, and I was in shock. I didn’t expect it.
“Then I was being picked up an hour later and I was on my way to St George’s Park.
“It was one phone call, then another, and then off we go.
“I rang the family and they were delighted for me to get called up, and for me of course it was a proud moment.”
He said: “I wasn’t overawed going in.I knew what it was going to be like. It’s not as if I’m 17-years-old and I’ve never played a game in my life.
“I was new to the squad, but playing against those players over the past two or three years, you get to mingle with them and realise they’re just the same as you.”
The prospect of playing against Spain in front of 80,000 people at Wembley did not faze him, either.
“I was fine. I have played over 90 games for West Ham now and it was just another one like that.
“That’s what I told myself – it’s still a game of football, no different to what I have been playing.
“It’s a bigger pitch at Wembley, a bigger arena and more fans, but not once did I change the way I play.”
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