LONDON: Everton’s teenage striker Wayne Rooney and Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy have pulled out of England’s squad to face South Africa in a friendly in Durban next Thursday.
Rooney has failed to recover from a knee injury but could join up with the England squad on Friday ahead of a training camp in Spain. Murphy has a neck problem and will be out for the summer, missing the European Championship qualifier against Slovakia on June 11.
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