McShane: Life on the fringes requires Trap-style resilience

ANDORRA at home must be the kind of fixture fringe players drool over but those accustomed to sitting on Giovanni Trapattoni’s bench know better than to expect a bout of musical chairs when it comes to the first 11.

So it proved yesterday when the Italian all but announced an unchanged line-up, from that which started in Yerevan, for tonight’s European Championship Group B qualifier and what will be the Aviva Stadium’s first competitive fixture.

“He does like a settled team and you would not blame him as a manager,” said Hull City’s Paul McShane who has built up a solid collection of caps under the Italian, despite some less than stellar displays. “If I was a manager I would like a settled team.”