 He scored twice in 30 Conference games in his first season with Dover , and his performance earned him international selection , chosen for England 's National Game XI for the first time in March 1999 . He maintained the standard the following season ; Dover 's best player against rivals Rushden & Diamonds , he was eventually stretchered off with a damaged Achilles tendon after three opponents were booked for fouling him . Sidelined for a month due to injuries sustained in that match , Wormull returned to play 20 minutes as a substitute before joining Rushden for a fee of £ 50 @,@ 000 later that same week . BBC Sport 's 2000 – 01 Football Conference preview said that Dover would miss him , a view later echoed by then assistant manager Clive Walker , who described the 1999 – 2000 season as " a year when we had players like Simon Wormull , Joe Dunne and Dave Clarke in the team . In all honesty , we weren 't far away from having a side good enough to win the division . We needed perhaps two more players to compete at the top – but sadly we ended up selling Dunne and Wormull halfway through the season . " 
