Alan Browne eager to get the green light

So there was Mark Travers talking to us at Ireland base camp on the Algarve on Tuesday, buzzing with enthusiasm at his second international call-up and all teed-up not only to show off his golfing prowess to the rest of the squad but, more importantly, confirm on the training pitch that he would be ready to step into the breach, should anything befall Darren Randolph, for Ireland’s upcoming Euro 2020 qualifiers.

Then the very next day he incurred a hand injury in a training session and yesterday came confirmation that it was a displaced fracture of the thumb which has now forced the young goalkeeper out of the picture.