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Tue 11 Nov 2002New boss, new player, new rowINTERNATIONAL SOCCER: When  Don Givens sighed, announced he would run through this once and then move on to talk about the players who actually did want to play for their country it seemed briefly as though we had all embarked on some nostalgic re-enactment of his predecessor's last 50 or so press conferences.In Athens last night, however, we were a full - and perhaps record breaking - 15 minutes or so into the player interviews before the name of Roy Keane was uttered by anybody. We have, after all, a new man at the helm of the Irish team and with him, it seems, we get a new row.