Shay Given has said he is very keen to get his No.1 spot in Manchester City. The player informed before the start of Premier League season that if he doesn’t start with City he would find some other first team football.
There were talks about the goalkeeper trying to Fulham but that turned on after Mark Schwarzer moved to Arsenal. He said, i had no choice but moving to Manchester City. He also didn’t have an exciting night against Andorra as they were beaten due to slack Irish defending which made defender Christian Martinez to take a shot.
The republic of Ireland goalkeeper won his 105th cap in the game and felt happy with the team’s maximum return from the first two games which happened after 12 yrs. We were aiming for six points till last Friday which happened at last and the Republic of Ireland face Russia in Dublin on October 8 and travel to Slovakia later.