Why Given will have felt very much at home

SHAY GIVEN must have felt very much at home last night.

Not just because he was making his 110th appearance for his country, but because another game passed him by without having to get his gloves all that dirty. At least in Manchester he gets to wear a tracksuit and stay warm.

For all Wales offered going forward, Given would have been better off back at City’s Carrington training ground where some of his injured colleagues, the development squad and, for some reason, the Dutch Olympic speed skating team were being put through their paces earlier in the day. Not convinced? Well, consider what the man himself said about his club situation earlier this week.