Hunt to miss out on Euros

We know Trapattoni believes that class is permanent and form has nothing to do with it, but it must be hard for Noel Hunt to think that he is probably the most in-form Irish striker at the moment and yet has no chance of going to the Euros.

No-one can say for sure what difference it made, but Robbie Keane claiming the equaliser Hunt thought he’d scored against Italy in Bari could turn out to have been the defining moment of Hunt’s international career.