Duncan Barkes

I feel for Michael more than anyone, because it's through no fault of his own," he added.

He was allowed to take the job, and he's not going to do any different, but maybe nobody scrutinised it enough at the time.

There's probably going to be a few people calling foul this weekend over potential selection decisions made, who was sent home and who wasn't.

We don't know what's going on, but the question being asked means it's potentially problematic.

I think Michael is a man of great integrity, but no one knows and no one will know.

I think the team selection is the best thing Michael thinks he can do for Northern Ireland, I have no problem with that.

But the fact it has a knock-on effect and the fact it has a consequence means that question should never be there.

Players play international games, we all know they play internationals, but we should never be looking at the situation everyone's been put into.

So it's a question for the league.

Steve Bone joins.

We're excited because this time last week he made a very radical prediction about his starting XI against Norwich, which included Bursic, Dio, Boat, Blair.

Are you sticking with it, Steve?

Hello.

Now, John Massino has come out and said that it's far too early to start thinking about the Oxford game, but unlike a professional journalist such as yourself, he sometimes tells lies.

Yeah, one eminent local journalist, I think it might be Jordan Cross, it might be Neil Allen, I think it's Jordan, whose work we admire enormously, has come out and picked a team with Terry Devlin playing alongside Marlon Pack in midfield.

He got a run out twice, yes.

Ever since it blew up, we've been looking forward to getting your take on this controversy about Michael O'Neill being manager of Northern Ireland, manager of Blackburn, isn't he?

And playing three Oxford United players in a meaningless friendly game against Wales and Oxford, it appears, taking issue with the fact that they're competing against Blackburn for a relegation place and they don't like the idea of their players being wasted.

Yeah.

Sorry, I thought of about six questions that I wanted to ask you whilst you were explaining your position on that.