You know with Chelsea and the players they have that it will be tough, but everyone is looking forward to it. They are the team to beat and people want to play against them.

At Leeds I’ve tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

The team spirit has always been here, it was here under Brian as well. You can’t say it wasn’t here under Brian because it was. But to have Mick Byrne come back has been nice....

I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is...

You’ve got me for another four years. I had the feeling it was a club going in the right direction and I still believe this, especially with how the team are doing and the quality...

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

It wasn’t deliberate handball, but you need a bit of luck.

Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won’t be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don’t know much about Cameroon...

It means a hell of a lot.

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don’t think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

It wasn’t deliberate handball but you need a bit of luck.

There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they’re getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.

It certainly was a strong performance and we have to take a little bit of heart from it to take into Saturday’s game. Sometimes you need a bit of luck.

We get on well and it won’t be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just...

It couldn’t have gone better.

We don’t want to get too carried away. We’ll take each game as it comes and hopefully in May we’ll be there.

We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

I can’t even remember when the Seventies was.

There are a few people saying we can’t (play together), but we know we can.

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

It’s always nice to start off with a good result.

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp.

We made hard work of it. They were a much better side in the second half. Full credit to them.

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing...