McGeady timing his form as excitement builds

It’s one of the hoariest of football clichés: the lad is flying in training.

And it usually means that the self-same lad will have the proverbial ‘mare’ in his next big game, possibly topping it all off with an own goal or a red card.

But, ahead of tonight’s friendly in Budapest, it would be hard to overstate the level of performance Aiden McGeady has been putting in these past couple of weeks, and not only on the training pitch.