Slovakia mission to derail Russians

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI would be ill-advised to take up the European Championship bail-out offer slapped on the table in the sleepy Slovakian resort of Senec yesterday.

The terms, as always it seems, are unfavourable to the Irish.

It was a man well known to Ireland fans who put voice to the proposal as Marek Cech promised Slovakia would do their best to derail Russia’s European Championship bandwagon in Zilina tomorrow night.