Blackburn Rovers boss Sam Allardyce has urged Newcastle United striker Andy Carroll to stay grounded.
Allardyce has backed the calls for Carroll to be named in the next England squad.
He said: "He's the sort of centre-forward that Fabio Capello likes - a big man up front. In the beginning it was Emile Heskey and we all know the one thing Emile couldn't give the England side was goals. He could make a lot of goals and could create opportunities but you had to rely on other players scoring.
"Then Peter Crouch has been tried, and I think Andy Carroll is emerging now and on the back of a very good start to the Barclays Premier League - and six goals to boot - he deserves to be included in a friendly international. I think Fabio should let the lad have a little taste of what it's like at that level.
"[But] I can cast my mind back to Michael Ricketts getting a chance when I was at Bolton. He played in Holland for England for half a game and let that go to his head and his career almost evaporated from that day on.
"So it can be a very dangerous thing as well as a very, very good thing and Andy and everybody around him has to manage that if he gets the call that he deserves."
