Unfazed Walters simply stays on message

That old cliché about professional footballers living in a bubble was never more apposite than in Hungary this last few days.

The travelling press corps may have spent most of yesterday debating Giovanni Trapattoni’s confusing press conference after the 0-0 draw with Hungary and his apparent suggestion that changes were imminent but the players themselves were blissful in their ignorance.

Suggestions of a switch to 4-5-1? The possibility of Jonathan Walters being promoted to the first wave? All of it passed them by, which was hardly a surprise given Trapattoni cleared up the confusion last night by declaring everything to be more or less a case of ‘as you were’.