Keith Andrews looks to the future with MK Dons

As he contemplates a season in the Championship with newly promoted MK Dons — the club at which he is increasingly forging a coaching role — Keith Andrews insists he is not bitter about the abrupt manner in which his international career with Ireland dried up soon after the Euro 2012 finals.

“As hot-headed as I can be, I absolutely never hold grudges,” says the 34-year-old Dubliner.

“Football is football, and I’ve been in it a long time. In the last few months, when I’ve been going to watch games, I’ve bumped into managers that I wouldn’t have seen eye to eye with but in the world of football if you held grudges, you wouldn’t be sleeping well at night.