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George Mills
BBC Sport senior journalist

In a recent addition of the Football Extra newsletter, Roger asked BBC Sport: Players are frequently injured on international duty - such as Chris Wood for New Zealand last season, which may have ultimately cost Nottingham Forest a Champions League place. Are clubs compensated by the country or does insurance cover compensation?'

Since 2012, Fifa's Club Protection Programme has covered the salary of players injured on international duty - although there are some conditions.

Firstly, the player must be out of action for a period of at least 28 consecutive days and the injury must have been sustained during an "accident", which is defined in very boring and legally-specific detail in Fifa's guidelines, though it covers most of the examples you could think of.

The scheme pays the salary of an injured player up to the maximum amount of €7.5m (£6.6m) until they are declared fit to return for their clubs.

Transfermarkt lists Chris Wood as missing 18 days - three games - with the hip injury you mention from last March, suffered on international duty with New Zealand. As he returned inside 28 days, Forest would not have been eligible to claim compensation.

There are a couple of clubs who will currently be beneficiaries of this scheme though, including Newcastle United, whose £55m summer signing Yoane Wissa is yet to make an appearance since suffering a knee injury while playing for DR Congo.

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Peter Moores has stepped up to replace Andy Flower as head coach of Trent Rockets' men's side in The Hundred.

Moores, 62, was Flower's assistant during the 2025 edition of the tournament, where the Rockets were beaten in the final by Oval Invincibles.

Zimbabwean Flower, 57, left the Rockets to replace Justin Langer as head coach of London Spirit last month.

"It feels like a good time to be taking over the Rockets, and I'm really excited about the opportunity to lead the team," said Moores.

"I see this as a great opportunity to continue on from the strong and successful foundations built by Andy Flower."

Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly's company Cain International has agreed to buy a 49% share of Trent Rockets, with Nottinghamshire Cricket Club retaining control of the other 51%. Confirmation of the deal is yet to be formally announced.

"The investment and energy that's coming into The Hundred, and the change of ownership at the Rockets in particular, make it a really exciting time," added Moores.

Moores led Nottinghamshire to the County Championship title this year, becoming the only man to win the competition with three different sides - having previously done so with Sussex and Lancashire.

He has been Nottinghamshire head coach since 2016 and signed a new three-year deal with the club in August.

Moores also spent two spells as England head coach - between 2007 and 2009, before returning to replace Flower in 2014 - but was sacked after a poor World Cup and drawn Test series in West Indies in 2015.

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Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson is a "fabulous asset" for club and country and should be "on the plane" for England at the 2026 World Cup, says BBC Radio Nottingham's Colin Fray.

"It is great for Forest fans to have a player like that to watch week in week out at the moment," Fray said. "He just keeps delivering all of these excellent performances.

"We always talk about players wanting to maintain consistent 7 out of 10 performances but he isn't just consistently a 7 out of 10, he is performing at way higher levels than that.

"He is a fabulous asset for Sean Dyche and Thomas Tuchel to have, and he has proven himself at international level over the first four games of his England career.

"It was interesting to hear Tuchel talk about there being 'no guarantees' that Anderson will be included in his World Cup squad in his press conference.

"You wouldn't expect him to tout Anderson as a shoo-in just yet, but as long as he doesn't pick up any injury issues and he continues to perform at this level - touch wood - then I don't think there's much doubt around him being on the plane."

Anderson impressed again in Thursday's 2-0 win over Serbia at Wembley and has only missed 21 minutes of England action since making his debut in September.

"It's going to be really interesting to see how he develops from here because, certainly at club level and international level, he is clearly a big asset to his coaches," Fray added.

"In Dyche and Tuchel, he also has coaches that can help him improve even further."

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BBC Radio Nottingham's David Jackson and Colin Fray are on hand to discuss Sean Dyche's first win as Nottingham Forest boss, as the Reds hit three goals past Leeds United at the City Ground.

The pair also talk about Morgan Gibbs-White's omission from Thomas Tuchel's squad for England's upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Albania.

Plus the compliments keep rolling in for Elliot Anderson, so the midfielder is on the running order again.

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We wanted your suggestions for Nottingham Forest's all-time best Premier League XI.

And you delivered!

Here's a first bunch:

Tim: 4-4-2. Sels, Cash, Pearce, Murillo, Cooper, Stone, Keane, Anderson, Woan, Collymore and Roy. Close calls for many positions.

Dave: 4-3-3. Crossley, Pearce, Walker, Murillo, Milenkovic, Clough, Stone, Keane, Collymore, Elanga, Carr. A mix of legends and recent. Psycho as captain obviously.

Anthony: 4-4-2. Crossley, Little, Cooper, Milenkovic, Pearce, Stone, Bohinen, Anderson, Woan and Collymore. The 1994-95 Forest team that finished third was the best I've seen in the Premier League and so dominates my team. I could have named all 11 players from that season but Mikenkovic and Anderson were great last season.

Steve: 4-4-1-1. Henderson (not Samba sorry), Aina, Murillo, Milenkovic, Pearce, Stone, Keane, Anderson, Woan, Gibbs-White, Collymore. The 1994-96 team had some brilliant players that would grace the current squad. Collymore is the best ever Forest striker and Pearce the best ever player while Stone and Woan could score and create. Imagine Keane and Anderson in midfield! Gibbs-White would link up the play and the defence is solid. What a team!

Stephen. 4-4-2. Crossley, Williams, Pearce, Milenkovic, Cooper, Stone, Anderson, Clough, Woan, Collymore, Wood. If football began in 1992!

Darren: 4-2-3-1. Crossley, Pearce, Cooper, Murillo, Lyttle, Anderson, Keane, Stone, Roy, Woan, Collymore. Solid defence, combative and skillful midfield and the best striker we've had in a long time.