Matt Doherty

As a player I have to be ultra-careful, especially in supermarkets. How often does somebody pick up something, realize they don't want it and put it back for someone else to touch. So yes, I put my mask and gloves on to be safe because you don't want to get ill, do you?

There is competition for places and everyone is bringing the best out of each other. There is no problem there. It's just the way it is.

1-0 is not a scary scoreline at all.

Teams go behind in games all the time.

I had the confidence, I knew I was able to play at this level. And I just took that forward.

The step up from the Championship is really big and at the beginning I had a few performances that weren't great.

I scored an own goal against Leicester and when you do that you start to think about things and question yourself.

The main position is where you want to play.

There will be players that I've never played against, it will be interesting to see how I get on.

My mam is Dutch but I'm green.

We know it is a results business, and also performance business. You have to perform well to get the results.

You can see it in games with Moutinho, he never panics on the ball and makes the right decision pretty much every time.

None of us would panic at club level if we were 1-0 down. All of us would be saying to each other, 'Let's stay in the game and see what happens,' so I don't think anybody would be panicking if that is the case.

Look, I want to play as many games as I can, and I want to contribute in a positive way as much as I can.

I always wear a mask if I'm going to the shops.

I didn't train with a mask. There's no way they will be able to make everybody wear masks once they're playing and training flat out. It's impossible.

It was great just to get Wolves training kit on and feel normal again.

What you really want to do is sit down and eat everything in the house. You can never do it, you've got to be disciplined, but in the back of your head, you're sitting there and thinking: 'what's in the press, what's in the fridge?'

I always feel that I can make a difference; that I can help if I'm on the pitch.

I'm just a confident player.

I want to know how I'm doing and contributing. If anyone says they don't... they're lying.

Whenever I say anything, I don't lie.

If you ask me a question... I'm not a liar so I'm not going to try and get out of the question. I just answer it.

I've been going absolutely insane! I've two kids, two-and-a-half and one-and-a-half at home.

My international career hasn't kicked off quite as much as I'd have liked it.

You can be as good as you want but if someone likes a different player for whatever reason you have to respect that and hope eventually you get the chance and then take it and stay there.

It's one of the worst things in our profession, being on the bench. The only worse thing is being injured.

I haven't been hung up on the international scene, I'm not sitting there waiting on the Ireland squad to be announced to see if I am in it.

You couldn't ask for a harder task, trying to get picked ahead of Seamus Coleman.

On a Wolves front, Premier League football is the big aim.

I'm not playing for Wolves just so I can get in squads. I'm concentrated on playing for Wolves.

If you're not playing, you're probably trying to find excuses when it's probably your fault.

I want to try and stay in the game and maybe have that responsibility: picking teams, telling players they're dropped. It's something that I might enjoy.

Management is something I'd like to do in the future, so I look at the different ways of training, the routines.

I've never been in a major competition. If you don't want to be there, you might as well leave now because it would be crazy to not want to be playing in Dublin at a Euros.

I might look back and think, 'was I really that bad?'

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter who plays once we win the game, that's the most important thing.

There's talented players in the Ireland set-up and if we can get all us gelling together, you'll have a good team.

Whenever a ball is played backwards, make the right decision, back a player to pick you out, so there a lot of ways players can take responsibility on the pitch.

You can be 19 or 20 and playing reserve team football, be able to say 'I played at,' say, 'Manchester United,' even though you have no actual first team appearances. But there are 19- and 20-year-olds at League Two level with 100 appearances under their belts. I know which one I'd rather be.

There's no point in playing underage football until you are 23. You've got to be able to play in games, cope in men's football and that almost certainly means that you have to go to the lower leagues.

My thought process is that when they see me play: 'We'll have to keep him.' That's how I think. But you have to think like that.

I was at Hibs and I didn't enjoy it that much but I had to live on my own, fend for myself and I learned how to do that.

At 15 or 16 I had been to 12 or 13 clubs.

I did a video interview straight after the Scottish Cup Final and I reacted to some abuse from Twitter. Dangerous, of course. The Hibs fans took it that I didn't care... they took it all the wrong way.

It's kind of depressing. A double relegation is something a few of us have - and we don't want it on our CV's.

I can't just rot away... If I stay at Wolves obviously I have to play.

Yes, I might have been the only person to have been with two teams that have gone down in the one season.

I under-performed, I realize that.

I was in the team and then I had COVID and came out, and struggled to get back in.