Trap coy on Dunne double jobbing

With his media duties completed yesterday, Giovanni Trapattoni sat sipping a cup of tea at a Dublin Airport hotel watching in admiration at Mayo’s second-half destruction of Tyrone.

Opportune, then, that the Italian is calling upon an own old reliable, Richard Dunne, for the veritable “All-Ireland” his team face when Sweden rock up for the crucial World Cup qualifier in 11 days.

Only last month Dunne seemed a long shot to even feature again at international level when omitted from the squad for the friendly against Wales, yet Trapattoni was suitably convinced by the 33-year-old’s showing for QPR at Bolton Wanderers on Saturday to declare the centre-back will be tasked with shackling Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the Aviva Stadium.