Oh Trap, where did it all go wrong?

OH Gio, the cat was not in the sack these few weeks!

You have awkwardly ruined a great few years and we can only hope that the FAI can build a new, better management team before Irish football is dead in the water.

Five years ago you came with a stunning reputation. You are one of only four coaches, alongside Ernst Happel, José Mourinho, and Tomislav Ivic to have won league titles (10) in four different countries.

As head coach at Juventus you won all UEFA club competitions. You were like our Obama, you brought the whole “Yes, We Can” campaign, but the real question is where did it all go wrong?

Fast forward to the World Cup qualifiers, we were flying with you.

We placed second in the group stage and then got controversially knocked out by France. We may have felt defeated after that but there was still hope. Hope that the Italian man would get us to the next world cup

It would be fair that Trap tried his best but his shocking broken English was not the only problem!

We got plenty of mocking, over the years including the time we were “the 33rd team in the 2010 World Cup” from Sepp Blatter he not only slagged us but chuckled at the thought.

We simmered down, we came back, and stunningly, we qualified for the Euros 2012. There was hope, but that’s all it was, and thereafter it went downhill.

Understandably, we weren’t going to be able to top the group, there was Spain and Italy, but we should have been able to make an attempt at Croatia. Why did we fail? Was it because Trap was a bit mad or that he played a continuous style?

The answer is anyone’s guess, relying on players that are questionable did not help!

And isolating players such as James McClean, Seamus Coleman, Shane Long, James McCarthy, Wes Houlihan, who “have no talent” did not help. You even put in a player that didn’t have a club and you “forgot” a top-class player, Oh Trap where did it all go wrong?

You came in at a time Irish football was in a small crisis, you pulled us out, now we are in a bigger mess. Was it your stubbornness and attitude to other players, the list of faults go on?

I think everyone who knows their sport would say you should have gone after the Euros 2012 but the FAI managed to keep you in a terrible position.

All I can say Giovanni Trapattoni, is you should keep Paul Brown’s words in you mind for your next job: “If you win, say nothing. If you lose, say less”.