| Anthony
Stanley - Ireland |
| How
is your country preparing for the World Cup? |
| Ireland
have been preparing very well with a recent series of friendly
games being held in Landsdowne Road. All have been complete
sell-outs with a capacity crowd of over 40,000 fans cheering
us on, our ONLY loss at home in two years was inflicted upon
us by the Nigerian side who played us in our last match prior
to departure for Japan. With the Ireland squad already selected
the Irish team were finally beaten on home soil by a Nigerian
side who were yet to name their squad... Obviously with our
recent injury scare of Roy Keane our lads were "not quite fully
committed" to every tackle and despite numerous attempts of
equalising Ireland went down 2-1. The Nigerian goalkeeper was
most certainly the "Man of the Match" in this game. |
| How
do you think Ireland will do in the World Cup? |
| With our
first match being against Cameroon (recent African Nations Cup
winners) we are not in as easy a group as some would believe.
I think that Germany will go on to the Final so we have to beat
Cameroon in order to qualify for the next round in my opinion...
This, I think we will do after having the recent test against
similar opposition. |
| Who's
your best player and why? |
| Roy Keane...
Without a doubt. Nottingham Forest (My club team) formed this
player into the World Class player that he is today and with
his history of earlier World Cups behind him, he feels that
this may be his last and so will be pushing the team to play
even harder than he pushes Man United... This can only be good
for Ireland. |
| What
do you think to the England side? |
| With a
fit Beckham they are a team to contend with and I would love
to be able to get match tickets for their first round games....
As yet I have only Irish tickets. |
| Where
will you be watching the matches? |
| In Japan
!!!!!!!!!!! With all 3 tickets firmly in my hand it is going
to be a wonderful experience. |
