THERE is every chance that David Dunn and Matt Jansen will be packing their bags for the World Cup, according to former team mate Callum Davidson.

"I am not at all surprised that Blackburn have made such a good start to the season after coming up because I know how good the young players are," the Leicester City defender said.

"People like Damien Duff, Damien Johnson, Dunny and Matty are all a couple of years older than when I was there and the club is getting the benefit of their greater experience.

"I don't see why Dunny and Matty can't break into the England squad for the World Cup because the two of them have got so much ability it is frightening.

"They have started to get a real consistency of performance and if they can keep doing that and Rovers keep going well in the league, then I think they have got a great chance."

Davidson's own World Cup dream was extinguished when Scotland was eliminated by Croatia and Belgium earlier this month.

But for now the 25-year-old has his mind focused no further than Monday night when the Premier League's bottom club takes on Rovers at Ewood Park.

"We have obviously struggled since the first game of the season when we lost 5-0 to Bolton, it was a terrible start," he said. "Everything has gone on from that."

Peter Taylor, the man who signed him from Rovers at the start of last season, has been sacked and the management team of Dave Bassett and Micky Adams has come in to try and turn things around.

"The new manager has got experience of these sort of situations and he is already doing things his own way," Davidson said of Bassett. "Training is different and he gets his points across well and despite two successive defeats I think things are looking up."

Last October Leicester were on top of the table and Davidson is as mystified as everyone else at the club as to why things have gone so horribly wrong.

"Apart from Neil (Lennon) it is more or less the same side and a lot of people look back to the defeat by Wycombe Wanderers in the quarter finals of the FA Cup," he said. "It was such a big blow but even then we had every chance of finishing in the top six and getting a place in Europe so I just don't know what went wrong.

"We have suffered with injuries to key players like Muzzy (Izzet), Gerry (Taggart) and Robbie (Savage) but that should not have made such a difference."

Davidson is looking forward to being reunited with his former team mates and he admitted: "The whole set-up at Rovers is different class and I loved it there.

"Rovers was my first club in England and I thoroughly enjoyed myself although I was obviously disappointed with the results.

"There were a lot of managerial changes in my time there, that's one of the main things I remember, but the set-up at the club is one reason why it belongs in the Premier League.

"You can only go up on performances and they made it last season but I am sure they can stay up."

His hope is that the Foxes can prove the bookies wrong and mount their own survival campaign, starting with three points at Ewood Park.

And he knows that means his side will have to keep Dunn and Jansen quiet.