If he does well, you know like any lad at any football club, people watch
Paul Lambert
“I think regardless of what team and what league you play in, if you're a good player, everybody will be looking at you,” Lambert told the Stoke Sentinel.
“That's normal.
“If you have a good World Cup, you have the eyes of the world on you, but I would rather him play brilliantly for us and does brilliantly for the national team rather than him not doing well for Stoke and not doing well for England.
“If he does well, you know like any lad at any football club, people watch.
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“That's one thing that hasn't changed in the game.”
It is unclear if Butland will be the man to start the World Cup for England between the sticks.
But Lambert backed his keeper to impress if he is given the chance.
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“England have got some good goalkeepers,” Lambert added.
“But if you said to me Butland was going to start and ask me if I had any problem with that, no I wouldn't.
“He has the temperament to handle that and I think he's a really good goalkeeper as well, so I wouldn't have a problem with Jack being the choice.”