‘We know we are not a crap team, we are a strong team’

The beef between the Republic of Ireland and Denmark has, as Ron Burgundy would put it, escalated quickly. For so long, the pair were nothing more than a pair of nations linked by little more than membership of the EU anda Viking backstory, butfamiliarity has bred serious levels of contempt. On theDanish side at least.

Shane Duffy hasn’t been paying all that much attention to the tirade of negativity coming their way from the Scandinavians. So he says, but then he picks holes in his own indifference with theadmission that “it will be even better when we go out and beat them”.