Boxy has a good record of turning up for the AWs and if he didn't want to go, I'm sure his club wouldn't have released him initially. I know we are all tainted with Tommy Smith, but I don't think there is much sinister here.
National teams are thankfully better resourced these days by the national body, if AWs fixtures still annoyingly scarce esp in the first 2-3 years of each WC cycle. Some sort of OFC/AFC Nations League setup, probably only way to change that.
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