Issues remain but time has come for Stephen Kenny’s Ireland to deliver Serbia possesses quality but remain an unknown quantity. With a new manager and Euro2020 disappointment fresh on their minds, they are Ireland’s first World Cup opponents in the latest

Stephen Kenny will be four days shy of a year in the post of senior Republic of Ireland manager by the time this latest international window closes with a glorified but far from glamorous friendly against Qatar in Hungary next Tuesday. A quarter of this latest World Cup qualifying campaign will be….