Probably because he wasn't good enough tbh.
He may have already been sold to Coventry by that time...it was quite a while ago but he was a decent enough midfielder.
He was at Coventry by then Midds.Excellent left foot he had,just lacked a bit of pace.
Phillips didn't get off the bench though iirc.
I think they are enormously jealous of our representation at major finals.Owen,Dyer,Lee,Shearer,Ferdinand,Beardsley etc.
I'm going to have a go at this using players capped in my lifetime:
1 Scott Carson
2 Phil Neville
3 Tony Dorigo
4 Terry Fenwick
5 Dave Watson-Everton one.
6 Carlton Palmer
7 Lee Hendrie
8 Geoff Thomas
9 Michael Ricketts
10 John Fashanu
11 Andy Sinton
Dishonourable mentions to John Gregory and Steve Hunt.