robinson did not feature in new manager fabio capello's plans until a friendly match against france on 26 march 2008, where he was named as a substitute. he remained on the substitute's bench for the start of the 2010 fifa world cup qualification campaign, but was dropped from the team altogether after a friendly against germany on 19 november 2008. robinson was recalled to the england squad in 2009 for the world cup qualification matches against kazakhstan and andorra, as regular goalkeeper david james and back-up ben foster were unavailable due to injury. he remained a substitute in both matches, as well as for england's next two friendlies. he was dropped from the bench for england's 5–1 victory over croatia on 9 september 2009, and withdrew from the squad with a hip injury before the next qualifiers against ukraine and belarus.