Duff: a man for all season

JUST call him Duracell Duffer.

Damien Duff has appeared in no less than 52 club games this season, more than any other player in an Irish side which takes on Paraguay at the RDS tonight.

The Ballyboden man’s remarkable season may have ended in disappointment with Fulham’s defeat in the Europa League final but that Duff managed to see the bulk of the action in that game was itself no small achievement considering he was nursing a calf injury in the days leading up to kick-off.