The Sheffield Wednesday striker missed Scotland’s March qualifiers.
Chris Sutton’s comments about Steven Fletcher appear to have angered a number of Sheffield Wednesday fans.
Sutton told BBC 606 that Fletcher “should play again for Scotland” after the Wednesday striker made himself unavailable for March’s Euro 2020 qualifiers against Kazakhstan and San Marino.
Fletcher has since told the official Sheffield Wednesday website he chose not to accept Alex McLeish’s call amid concerns playing on artificial surfaces could exacerbate the injury problems that have plagued him these past two campaigns.
The 31-year-old has appeared twice for the Owls since Scotland’s squad was announced and suffered a fresh problem – to his groin this time – in the latter of those outings against Blackburn Rovers.
And those of a Sheffield Wednesday persuasion are fully behind Fletcher in the wake of what was said by Sutton – the now-retired striker who famously snubbed an England B team call-up in the mid-1990s.
Sutton reiterated afterwards he was wrong to reject the Three Lions, for whom he won one full cap.
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