Defiant Stephen Kenny expects to be judged at end of campaign

Stephen Kenny believes that he will be judged at the end of the Euro 2024 campaign and stated that whether his contract is renewed "will depend on how people feel the campaign went overall".

The Ireland manager has come under fire after just two games of the current qualifying campaign following his side's disappointing defeat to Greece on Friday night.

And while Kenny was quick to admit that his side has a mountain to climb following the Athens loss against a lower-ranked side, however, he believes that there is a lot of football to be played in the group and is putting all his focus on Monday night’s home tie against Gibraltar.

Kenny is confident that despite the slow start, he will remain in charge of the national side for the remainder of the Euro 2024 campaign, and added that he did not seek any assurances regarding his immediate future.

The manager, however, was in no humour to discuss his tenure up to this juncture on the eve of the Gibraltar qualifier.

And when pushed on his track record over the past three years, where his results were described as shambolic, Kenny felt that it was a disrespectful line of questioning at a press conference discussing the imminent home game against Gibraltar.

"I’m not going to sit here and do a full press conference on an assessment of my period in charge or anything like that, I’m here really to prepare for tomorrow, the game against Gibraltar, it’s a big game for us," said the manager.

"I’m disappointed that we lost against Greece but we got to bounce back against Gibraltar and I’m fairly sure we can do that and we’ll take that into September."

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