San Marino v England: I'd never turn my back on England, insists Steven Gerrard, after Rio Ferdinand snub I have my own personal programme that I stick to, but that's the same as any other player. Playing for Engkand is the pinaccle and if I don't play against San Marino I'll be very disappointed, which shows what it means to me. Hodgson refused to say whether the Doha trip was mentioned when Ferdinand travelled to London on Sunday to explain why he would be opting out of national service. And he claimed to have no opinion on the wisdom of that trip, believing it to be the business only of Ferdinand himself and Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. What is clear, though, is that if the former West Ham man truly has ambitions to represent his country again, as he insisted in the statement released on his behalf earlier in the week, he has taken a pretty big risk. "We should just wait and see," said Hodgson, when asked if he would consider Ferdinand in the future. It's more a question of how his injury situation will impact upon him playing for England.