Training cancelled as McGeady gets a break

Perhaps it was coincidence, perhaps not, but Giovanni Trapattoni last night responded to Aiden McGeady’s suggestion Ireland’s players are jaded by giving his men a day off.

McGeady, we can safely say, is sick of training camps. He has had it with airports and flights and is downright browned off with night after night of DVDs, poker games and aimless strolls around various team hotels.

Lest we forget, it is only three months since he was being dragged around Europe by a Spartak Moscow side escaping the Russian winter and preparing for the second half of the divided club season around the Mediterranean. His seems to be a life of almost perpetual motion.