Back to basics for Faroes tie, says Kenny

ON Saturday night in the Stade de France, Kenny Cunningham faced up the challenge of Arsenal duo Thierry Henry and Robert Pires.

Tomorrow night at Lansdowne Road, he will take on John Petersen and Andrew av Flotum, players whose names are no more familiar than those of their clubs (B36, Torshavn and Fremad Amager of Denmark, since you ask).

The Faroe Islands are in town and about all they share with France is a starting initial. Inevitably then, it's hard to shake off the feeling that all the hard work is already done in the October back-to-back section of the World Cup Group 4 qualifying campaign. But captain Cunningham is here at the team's training ground in Malahide to tell us that complacency is strictly off-limits in the Irish camp. And there's no basking in the glory of what's already been achieved either.