Trap looks to the future

SO now we know that the cliche in Italian is the same as the cliche in English.

“There is no use crying over spilled milk,” said Givoanni Trapattoni yesterday, as he attempted to put Ireland’s loss to Russia behind the team ahead of tonight’s game against Slovakia in Zilina.

Easier said than done, however, as Trapattoni more or less admitted when he revealed he’d advised his players not to read the overwhelmingly negative coverage of Friday’s 3-2 defeat at the Aviva Stadium