'When you get a taste...why wouldn't you want more?' - O'Shea on Ireland job

"Ask me again after Switzerland" is what John O'Shea said when asked would he take the Ireland job, if offered.

The assembled media in Dublin, however, were not prepared to wait another 24 hours until the culmination of the second game of the double header, and sure enough, the questions were lined up for the interim manager.

By the end of the 25-minute grilling, he was using cricketing parlance, using a "straight bat" to send the questions right back in the direction that they came.

However, in the meantime, it became abundantly clear that O’Shea has been bitten by the management bug, and he would not be overly impressed if all his hard work over the past month counted for nothing.

"Ifs, buts and maybes" was how he replied when a scenario was put to him about a change of heart from the FAI for this supposed permanent manager they have lined up for their April announcement.

Early on, O’Shea confirmed that there had been no change of the arrangement with the FAI’s director of football Marc Canham regarding his role post Switzerland, while the only thing that he was really certain about was spending the Easter holidays with his wife and kids.

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If the FAI have yet to confirm whether or not they want O’Shea for the job, it transpires that his former Manchester United manager believes he is the right man for the job, according to one of the reporters who claimed that he had spoken to Alex Ferguson at Cheltenham.

"The manager would always have contact with me anytime I went