The cap now fits for Trap
As Ireland begin a week of preparations for a visit from Germany, Giovanni Trapattoni finds himself in a much-changed world, even if the transformation is not one he seems too inclined to accept.
Looking back to February, I see I was writing in this column about the wildly different experiences in these islands of two Italian managers. At the time, Trapattoni’s position as manager of Ireland was watertight and bullet-proof, the veteran effectively immune from criticism – of which there was still plenty about — as a consequence of Ireland having qualified the previous November for their first finals in ten years.
