Trap re-affirms commitment

EVEN having seen his team only survive the siege of Moscow by a miracle, Giovanni Trapattoni would still rather manage Ireland than try to manage in a real war zone.

Saying he continues to receive job offers from other clubs and countries, the manager yesterday revealed that, in the recent past, there had been contact from the football association of a nation which subsequently went to war.

“We receive phone calls, even from places which are at war at the moment,” he said in Dublin before flying home to Milan. “It was important to wait because a week later, it goes ‘boom, boom, boom’.”