Domenech keen to get going

FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech is impatient to play the second leg of the World Cup play-off against Ireland, perhaps because his future employment depends on it.

If France get through, Domenech will have another eight months in charge of the national team but an elimination will see him out of work very soon.

And yet the ebullient boss showed no signs of nerves on the eve of the clash – until someone mentioned penalties, that is. Domenech has a poor record in shoot-outs – France famously lost the 2006 World Cup final to Italy after a shoot-out, while Domenech’s Under-21 side lost their Euro 2002 final, 3-1, to the Czech Republic on spot-kicks.