"This is something that I always struggled with when I was playing for Ireland. The gap between your warm-up, your coming on to the pitch, and the delay with the anthems. So, [singing is] something that I have never done. I was always really focused on the game and my first actions of the game. I really found that, in that period, I was wary about my mind wandering off."
"I fully respect both anthems and understand how much they mean to both countries. It's something I am really respectful of."
"Rice is expected to be booed by the Aviva Stadium crowd, and there is potential for some pantomime hostility for Grealish, who may return to the starting line-up."
"I spoke to the group as a whole; the Irish crowd may be all the more buoyant given this is a first match under new manager Heimir Hallgrimsson, who was assistant to Iceland when they beat England 2-1 in Euro 2016."
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