SCOTT Arfield has said that he feels he has “nothing to prove” when he lines up for Canada against Scotland in an Easter Road friendly next month, writes Stewart Fisher.
Though he did reveal that some of his family will never understand his decision to declare his allegiance for the country of his father’s birth.
Now into his second full season in the English top flight at Burnley, the 28-year-old, who earned 17 caps for the Scotland Under-21 side and appeared at B-team level under George Burley, abandoned hopes of a full international call from Gordon Strachan 12 months ago.
“While I don’t think there is any ill feelings about it, some of my uncles and that don’t understand why I didn’t just keep waiting or how it [a Scotland cap] never happened,” Arfield told Herald Sport. “Every squad that got announced up to a certain period they kept asking and to be fair I didn’t know either.
“But I don’t think I have got anything to prove to anybody.”
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