Trap plays the waiting game with duo

We’re used to football managers giving it “110%” but yesterday Giovanni Trapattoni wasn’t even prepared to go the ton.

So, instead, we got the word that both Richard Dunne and Wes Hoolahan are “90%” likely to start against the Faroe Islands, the manager’s reluctance to commit only partly based on the fact that he was talking at lunchtime on a Bank Holiday Monday and the game itself doesn’t kick off until Friday night.

There was also the added complication that Trapattoni was at a sun-splashed Gannon Park in Malahide without any of his players, the manager having given the squad a day off following their 4-0 victory over Georgia the previous evening.