Cyrus Christie ready to challenge Coleman and Doherty for starting spot

Cyrus Christie. Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Cyrus Christie knows he hasn’t been anyone’s idea of a first-choice player down Ireland’s right flank but the 29-year-old insists he can do every bit as good a job for Stephen Kenny’s men as Seamus Coleman and Matt Doherty.

That’s a bold statement but one very much in keeping with a player who played some of the best football of his career at Swansea City during the second-half of a season that had seen him frozen out by his parent club Fulham through to January.