Trap: Don’t make fun of me

THE players Giovanni Trapattoni dubbed ‘the disappeared’ have reappeared in his squad for next month’s friendly against Croatia — but the manager has made it crystal clear that he will stand for no more repeats of the confusion which surrounded his last squad call-up back in May.

James McCarthy, Marc Wilson, Jon Walters and Darron Gibson have all been named in the latest selection, while the absence of Anthony Stokes this time has been attributed by Trapattoni to a straightforward desire to look at other options up front.

There is definitely no place for Caleb Folan, however, whose commitments to football in the US seems to have finally called time on his Irish career.