England manager Roy Hodgson says Tuesday s friendly with Scotland will serve his side well in their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign.
Clashes between the neighbouring nations are often fiercely contested affairs, with England claiming a 3-2 victory when they last met at Wembley in August 2013.
But asked whether there was ever such thing as a friendly against Scotland, Hodgson said: Why not? I don t really know why not? The game at Wembley last year was fantastic for us, we had to pull out all the stops.
For me that s the type of friendly you want.
Qualifying has to be our be-all and end-all, but in between we are trying to find fixtures that will test us, give us a flavour of matches to come.
I won t go down the obvious route of we don t like the Scots or they don t like us because in my lifetime it s not something I ve come across.
I don t expect it to be especially physical. It will be hard-fought I m sure, competitive. I m sure each challenge will be competed for, but Scotland aren t that type of team and set their stall out to play football like we do.
Captain Wayne Rooney added: We are on a good run at the moment and I think it s important we continue this form and getting the results because we know our next game is in March and it will be disappointing if we come off a bad result with such a long wait.