I don’t think this is likely to happen, but Giovanni Trappatoni (Ireland’s manager) says: “I would recommend Italian clubs to buy Shay Given from Newcastle. He resembles Gianluigi Buffon, and I am not exaggerating when I say this. He is a born goalkeeper, and there is a vacancy for players like this in Serie A.”
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Wednesday, September 10th 2008
Shay and Serie A?
posted @ 11:06 in [ Newcastle Utd - Republic of Ireland ]
Tuesday, September 9th 2008
Shay’s thoughts about the Georgia win
posted @ 11:14 in [ Republic of Ireland ]
“I’m delighted we won the game, though a bit annoyed that they scored a goal and we’re lucky that it didn’t cost us some points. In the past, late goals cost us points which stopped us from qualifying, so it’s good that we came away with the win.
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Tuesday, September 9th 2008
Shay must be fit again!!!
posted @ 10:38 in [ Newcastle Utd - Republic of Ireland ]
We seem to be able to pick up that Shay did a full training yesterday with the rest of the irish squad which would lead to the logical statement “HE’LL BE FIT FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S MONTENEGRO’S CLASH”. It doesn’t surprise us though. It takes a lot to keep a good man down! 
Monday, September 8th 2008
Shay warns Ireland team-mates against complacency
posted @ 18:40 in [ Republic of Ireland ]
“It’s a very tough group. People who say it is an easy group, I think, are way off the mark.
“Italy are the world champions, Bulgaria have got some very good players as well and Georgia, Montenegro and Cyprus – there are no easy games.
“Every game, you have got to be focussed on the job in hand.”
Taken from the Irish Independent article today
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