Chambers made for the big occasion

FOR a young man who has to go back to his schoolboy days to try to remember the last time he contested a cup final, James Chambers seems remarkably unfazed about the prospect of playing in front of what will be the biggest crowd of his career in the battle of the Rovers at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday.

But then it probably helps if you’re coming to the climax of a season with a league winner’s medal tucked in your pocket and the experience of a Champions League game away to European giants Juventus still fresh in the memory.

“Yes, it’s going to be a massive crowd on Sunday but we’ve played Juve in Modena with 20,000 screaming Italians there,” says the 23-year-old Shamrock Rovers midfielder. “I think it will come down to whichever side copes better with the occasion on Sunday. I wouldn’t be particularly nervous.