Treacy: Trapattoni wrong to ditch Reid

ANDY REID is the victim of an ‘over-reaction’ from Giovanni Trapattoni on the night his international future was thrown into limbo – so says Ray Treacy, who was a bystander on the fateful evening in 2008.

Reid hasn’t played for Ireland under Trapattoni since his falling out with the Irish manager following Ireland’s World Cup qualifying clash with Georgia in 2008, and Treacy, who was a witness in the bar in Germany on the night, says Reid has been hard done by.

“I was in the bar in Wiesbaden (on the night Giovanni Trapattoni and Andy Reid had their infamous falling-out) and I do know this: what Reidy did you would see a hundred times and you’d barely notice it,” Treacy says, in an interview in today’s Irish Examiner.