It might look like Giovanni Trapattoni is doing il pollo tremarella — the funky chicken — but it’s only the veteran Italian making a point to the media in his own inimitable style.

THE TALK at the end of another international year is of the big picture but, typically, it’s the little details which continue to absorb and animate Giovanni Trapattoni.

I was fortunate to witness a chance encounter between Jack Charlton and Giovanni Trapattoni