Robbie Keane injury could reopen Euros door to Kevin Doyle

“I know it’s all getting down to the 11th hour as it were but that was always going to be the case.”

First there was the disconcerting sight of Robbie Keane stepping gingerly down from the team bus before entering Turner’s Cross, not to take his place on the pitch, but in the stands, writes Liam Mackey.

Then there was the no less worrying spectacle of Harry Arter — who had been fully participating in the Ireland training session — suddenly making his way to the sidelines with an evident problem with his thigh.