O’Neill broadside for Trap

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That’s despite O’Neill diplomatically allowing that the Italian’s recent comments about Keiren Westwood — when the Ireland manager revealed he’d advised the goalkeeper that a change of club would be good for his international career — might have been “lost in translation”.

In fact, speaking to the Irish media, Trapattoni had mentioned his recommendation to Westwood in the context of explaining his decision to replace him with David Forde as Ireland’s No 1, which the manager said he did on the grounds that the Galwegian netminder was getting regular football with Millwall.