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 IN-FORM WHELAN PLEAS FOR ENGLAND CHANCE
                                        
 Coventry's in-form midfielder Noel     
 Whelan is pleading with Glenn Doddle   
 not to write off his England dreams    
 bjcausj of past off-the-field problems.
                                        
 The England U21 player is wondering    
 whjthjt he is paying the price of his  
 bad-boy image but insists hj has learns
 the lesson of those misdemeanours.     
                                        
 Whjlan, a £2m buy from Leeds, said: "I 
 think I've been playing well enough to 
 get picked at some level."             
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