Pick me, pick me!

What is the question to which the answer is Emile Heskey?

Emile Heskey!

I'm going to the Israel game as part of my stag do. So I have request to make:

Can I play, please Mr McClaren? Since you seem happy to pick lumbering, useless wastes of football space, I'd have thought I've a great claim on a place.

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