O'Shea insists improved performance and Aviva crowd can turn Greek result on its head 

Next Friday offers an opportunity to avenge defeat against O’Shea’s former manager, Gus Poyet, albeit a belated and futile version.

IMPROVEMENT NECESSARY: Cadbury launched its Grounds for Change initiative at grassroots club Douglas Hall AFC in Cork with former Republic of Ireland international and current men’s assistant coach John O'Shea. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

In contrast to a club career that weighed with so much expectation, John O’Shea believes the tempering of it ought to contextualise Ireland’s present plight.

The centurion has returned this year as one of Stephen Kenny’s assistants for a Euro campaign that is over from a qualification perspective with three games left.