No guarantees for Damien Duff, insists Pat Fenlon

Damien Duff might be an Irish football legend but Shamrock Rovers boss Pat Fenlon has made it clear that the club’s new star signing is not automatically guaranteed a place in his team.

“No, we can’t guarantee anybody that,” said the Hoops manager. “He knows that we have some good players here. But what it does is give everybody a lift, whether it’s the club or the league, and gives us a real attacking option in the team.

“From his point of view, when I met him — and I only met him once, to be honest — the big thing I got from him was that he wanted to play. He wasn’t interested in anything else. He felt he had a point to prove still and wants to do things properly, which was great.”