Complex sentence: He started 30 league games for the Magpies in the 1987/88 season as a left-back and in May 1988 earned a call-up to the England Under-21 squad for a tour of Toulon but unfortunately had to pull out injured.
Split into simpler sentences: He started 30 league games for the Magpies in the 1987/88 season as a left-back. He earned a call-up to the England Under-21 squad in May 1988 for a tour of Toulon but unfortunately had to pull out injured.