Another one for the road for Trapattoni

IT isn’t so long since we faced the prospect of Irish national teams playing their home games on foreign soil while Lansdowne Road was being given its facelift.

Nights like this make you think that might not have been a bad thing.

Often so ponderous and tentative in Dublin, Giovanni Trapattoni’s side bring a clarity of purpose with them when they pack their bags for the continent. So it was in the A. Le Coq Arena in Tallinn last night.