Portsmouth goalkeeper James, 37, won his 35th England cap as a faultless second-half substitute for Tottenham star Robinson last night after being recalled to the national squad for the first time in 14 months.

He came on against the Germans after Robinson had gifted the visitors an equaliser by misjudging the flight of a cross and being lucky to escape punishment following an earlier error.

And England manager Steve McClaren, who dropped James and Pompey team-mate Sol Campbell from the national set-up when he took over from Sven-Goran Eriksson following the World Cup finals, has admitted: "We've got to look at goalkeeping situation. I'm disappointed with certain aspects of our play."

And that will be a spur for James to pull out all the stops in Pompey's visit to Chelsea on Saturday and the trip to Arsenal a week on Sunday to clinch his place in the Euro 2008 qualifiers against Israel and Russia next month.

He said: "I want that to be for me doing well and not at the expense of someone else not doing well.

"Ultimately everyone in the England squad wants to play. So between now and the next squad (announcement) I'll be trying to do what I can to jog the manager's mind and hopefully get a shout.

"I wasn't expecting to play (against Germany) so this was a major achievement in my book.

"Hopefully in the next two weeks I will give myself another opportunity to be in the next squad. If the opportunity to play arises I am up for it of course. I didn't want to be here just to warm the bench."

James himself knows exactly how Robinson will be feeling after his blundering display.

Once tagged 'Calamity James' for a series of high-profile mistakes he is convinced that reputation hurt him as much as errors he made in a 4-1 England defeat by Denmark.

But he had an outstanding season at Portsmouth last term after a £1.2 million move from Manchester City and was adamant he had not given up his dream of an England return after another high-profile mistake by Robinson against Croatia cemented a Euro 2008 defeat in Croatia.

Pompey boss Harry Redknapp is backing his number one.

He said: "Unfortunately for Paul his first-half misfortunes against Germany did little to suggest he's now the automatic choice.

"Jamo has been fantastic for us, a great signing. Week in, week out his form has been incredible since he arrived at Portsmouth. I was delighted for him the other night. I was delighted for him that he got back in."

Redknapp knows, however, that James might have his work cut out to defy Chelsea at Stamford Bridge where they have been unbeaten in league matches since Jose Mourinho became manager three years ago.

Despite collecting five points in an unbeaten start to the season, Redknapp is still labouring under the weight of an injury crisis with at least seven senior players still under treatment.

But Redknapp is hopeful skipper Sol Campbell who has missed the last two games - and the England match - with a groin injury, and full backs Lauren (ankle) and Noe Pamarot (hamstring) will be back to strengthen his defence.

Sulley Muntari also returns after a one-match ban but Gary O'Neil, Pedro Mendes, Linvoy Primus and Nico Kranjcar all remain highly doubtful.

Meanwhile Redknapp insists he "knows nothing about" reports of being linked with Martin Jol's seemingly-fragile fragile job at Spurs, saying "I have not spoken to anyone about that. I've got a big job here to do."