I won’t be reigning in my aggressive mindset, vows James McClean

James McClean has changed. Matured.

He’s no longer the raw kid that tore it up down the flank as a rookie pro with Sunderland and a tendency to put his foot in it off the pitch has been curbed by an absence from Twitter that is now stretching through a fourth month.

However, there is no denying his DNA. He remains as direct and uncompromising off the pitch as he is on it, so there was no hesitation in declaring that nothing less than six points will do this week — “no two ways about it” — even if Martin O’Neill has banned all talk of Moldova.