Alan Kelly on board for World Cup qualifiers as Stephen Kenny expresses faith in dressing-room

Kenny has explained that he was of a mind to hand Caoimhín Kelleher his Republic of Ireland debut against England last month

Tue, 08 Dec, 2020 - 06:00

Brendan O'Brien

Stephen Kenny has confirmed that Alan Kelly remains his goalkeeping coach and that the 52-year old will be a member of his staff when the Republic of Ireland commences its 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign next March.

The former Ireland goalkeeper strongly denied what he termed as the “innuendo” in sections of the media last month that he was responsible for leaking details of Kenny’s pre-match motivational video shown to the players prior to last month’s 3-0 friendly loss to England.