Alan Browne backs team-mate Aiden McGeady

It’s fair to say Alan Browne and Aiden McGeady are at different ends of the international football spectrum.

A full month after the end of the Championship season, the Preston North End teammates are back in close confines on national service this week. But there’s nothing close about their respective Ireland records.

McGeady was sprung from the bench by Martin O’Neill at Lansdowne Road on Sunday, his cameo against Uruguay seeing him win his 89th international cap. Three days earlier against Mexico in New Jersey, Browne collected his first.