Trap simply a man of a different era

If this is the end, we should have known from the beginning what we were letting ourselves in for with Giovanni Trapattoni because he never disguised his intentions for the Republic of Ireland.

The man who was recruited from Red Bull Salzburg back in 2008 may have gone full circle with last night’s defeat to Austria as speculation about this being his last act as Ireland manager refused to go away.

If it is to be arrivederci to the Italian, then this World Cup qualifier showed us the good, the bad, and what we’ve come to expect from him. There was plenty of fight early on, then tactical naivety took over, before the opportunity to make the necessary changes to snatch a victory came and went.