Wilson on standby, or is he? — Trap starts to lose his cool

Giovanni Trapattoni has asked Marc Wilson to replace Kevin Foley on Ireland’s Euro 2012 standby list.

An FAI official texted the request to the Stoke player but there was no immediate reply.

“Maybe he is still in bed,” the manager quipped yesterday at midday, adding, “no problem”. Last night, when there was still no confirmation of a response from Wilson, an FAI spokesman in the Irish training camp in Montecatini said that the manager would now be waiting until after Monday’s game against Hungary in Budapest to “consider standbys” and “won’t be talking details until then.”