Former Tottenham and Marseille star Chris Waddle has wrote off Charlie Austin's England chances.

The QPR striker is being pushed for an England call.

But Geordie Waddle says: "Because he's English and we don't have many strikers to choose from, Charlie Austin suddenly comes to the front. Even Peter Crouch is being mentioned again because he's been scoring a few too.

"But international football is completely different to the Premier League. The Premier League is 100 mph - it's backwards and forwards, like basketball.

"At international level, it doesn't matter who you play because even the weaker countries play a way we're not used to. You don't get thousands of balls fizzing in the box every game.

"It doesn't work like that. So you have to think can Charlie Austin hold the ball up? Can he link the play up? Is he that type or a get-the-ball-in-the-box striker?

"You have to give more than that playing for England. You have to look after the ball. Otherwise it's hard to get it back.

"Can Austin be that? Or does he need someone up there with him like he has at QPR in Bobby Zamora, who links the play up well?

"If England play one up front, he'll have to hold ball up more. Is that his game? We don't know because we haven't seen it yet."