David James admits he harbours ambitions to again be England's outright No1.

After replacing a disappointing Paul Robinson at halftime of last night's 2-1 defeat to Germany, Portsmouth goalkeeper James declared: "Whoever is out there for England, we do what we can to make sure they are at their best so that we win.

"But ultimately everyone in the England squad wants to play, so between now and the next squad, I'll be trying to do what I can do to jog the manager's mind and hopefully get a shout. But I want that to be for me doing well and not at the expense of someone else not doing well.

"I wasn't expecting to play so to get back into the squad was a major achievement in my book. Hopefully in the next two weeks I will give myself another opportunity to be in the next squad.

"If the opportunity arises, I am up for it of course. I didn't want to be here just to warm the bench up and England have got some very good young goalkeepers.

"I thought it was a decent performance from us but obviously the result won't suggest that. But we were by far the stronger side and there was a lot of confidence out there."