Will Trap finally pay for his arrogance?

When you bring it all down to the bare facts, the situation is, quite simply, historically bad.

Four of the last five competitive games under Giovanni Trapattoni have produced, one, the worst ever performance by any team at a European Championship and, two, the biggest ever home defeat in the country’s history.

In the other match, Kazakhstan were mere minutes away from becoming the lowest ranked team to ever defeat Ireland.