Lawrence in the limelight

JERMAINE PENNANT and Jamie O’Hara may want to give Fabio Capello a call after it was made abundantly clear last night that neither player would ever find a particularly warm welcome in an Irish dressing room.

Both Pennant and O’Hara have floated an emerald kite in the recent past whilst stating a first preference to represent the Three Lions and such talk clearly hasn’t gone down well with members of Giovanni Trapattoni’s squad.

“The only thing I know upsets us, if you like, is when people are trying to juggle between England and Ireland,” said Liam Lawrence at the team‘s Dublin HQ. “That’s the only issue really there and it is not just me that’s saying that.