Further discussions are needed between England players and the Football Association to agree on "widely acceptable and agreed" criteria for future international squad selections, the FA's head of football affairs David Davies said today.
Davies and other FA officials today met with Gary Neville and David James in Manchester in a bid to avoid further disputes following the selection rows surrounding Rio Ferdinand and Alan Smith in the autumn.
Ferdinand was omitted from the squads to face Turkey and Denmark because of a missed drugs test while Smith was called up and then dropped for the Denmark game after the FA learned he had been arrested in relation to a bottle-throwing incident while on club duty for Leeds.
Davies, who said the initial meeting had been "positive" told Sky Sports: "Everybody in the room was committed to giving England the best chance to win and be successful in Euro 2004 and beyond, and we are all very conscious of that responsibility.
"All parties agreed to put the aftermath of events in October and November behind us and all agreed to learn lessons from that aftermath and those events.
"We discussed specific responsibilities - of the players themselves at whatever level, of clubs and the Premier League and the FA in resolving any issues that arise and agreed better communication between all of us was very important.
"Discussions are going to continue over the next few weeks and the aim is to create a widely acceptable and agreed policy for all England squad selections in the future.
PA