Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy expects to be able to select his first-choice squad when his side travel to the Middle East for a World Cup play-off.
Ireland will face either Iran or the United Arab Emirates. McCarthy is set to fly to Tehran today to watch the sides in their Asian World Cup qualifying play-off.
The winners face the Republic in Dublin on November 10th before a second leg five days later that will ultimately decide which nation goes to Japan and South Korea for the 2002 World Cup.
The Irish manager says current concern surrounding the political situation in the area, which saw six players from English Premiership side Chelsea refuse to travel to Israel for a UEFA Cup tie, has not affected his plans.
"I will pick the team and the squad (for next month's play-off) and I will expect the players to come and travel," said McCarthy. "I would not ask anybody to come out and do anything I would not do."
"If somebody says they are not coming there is nothing we can do about it. But I do not envisage a problem."
Clinton Morrison insists he will go if selected in the squad. Morrison, who has played a starring role in Crystal Palace's early season success in Division One, said: "I would be a little bit scared to go, but I definitely want to be there."
The 22-year-old sees this match as a potential chance to impress McCarthy after scoring a goal in his only appearance for the full side so far in a friendly against Croatia in August.
"I would go definitely, it would be a great chance for me to maybe become part of the team."
Fifty-four football fans were hospitalised in Tehran after Sunday night's 3-1 defeat of Iran by Bahrain sparked disturbances in the capital and elsewhere, with two of them in a coma, the government-run Iran paper reported yesterday.
It said the fans, 28 men and 26 women aged either under 18 or between 30 and 90, suffered shock, heart attacks and respiratory problems.
The same paper said 89 "opportunists" had been arrested after the match in the central city of Isfahan for "disrupting public order" by throwing fire crackers and setting fires.
The reformist Norouz paper said anti-riot forces had to intervene to disperse the crowds in Isfahan, but gave no further details.
Late Monday, the student ISNA news agency said more than 800 people had been arrested in Tehran following the clashes which erupted after the defeat, with the state IRNA news agency reporting that "more than 200 have already been freed".
Thousands of disgruntled fans took to the capital's streets after their team collapsed in the World Cup qualifier against minnows Bahrain, giving Saudi Arabia a definite place in the finals.
IRNA quoted a police source as saying that "32 banks, some army vehicles and five cars belonging to civilians were damaged".
