'They chose who they wanted to represent' - Seamus Coleman on Dublin return of Rice and Grealish

The Ireland skipper refused to be drawn on the reception the pair should get at Lansdowne Road.

DIPLOMATIC: Seamus Coleman during a Republic of Ireland press conference at the Aviva Stadium on Friday. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Seamus Coleman wasn’t falling into the trap. The Republic of Ireland captain is 15 years a professional footballer so he was never going to lunge in when asked if Declan Rice and Jack Grealish might “deserve” a barracking from the Aviva Stadium crowd on Saturday.

The return to Dublin of the two England internationals for the first time since switching their allegiances from the Boys in Green has been an obvious and, already, slightly tiresome seam through the week leading up to this Nations League meeting.