Roy Keane: Austria 'should have nicked a draw against us in Vienna'

By all accounts, yesterday’s training session in Abbotstown was, as they like to say in the trade, a bit tasty. And certainly to the taste of a watching Roy Keane.

“I woke up this morning and thought, ‘let’s hope there’s a bit of edge to training’,” he said, after everyone had cooled down.

“And that’s exactly what it was. And that’s what you want from your players. Obviously, you want to peak on Sunday but there was a nice feeling to training. Players were just on the edge with some of the stuff we were doing. It was good. I like the one or two days before a game. All the stuff last week I could take with a pinch of salt but this these couple of days and the Sundays, you’re like, ‘that’s what we’re here for’. “I’ve said it before: the foreplay is over.”