Gibson lifts lid on Trap and signals desire to return

You could sum it up quite simply, really: Darron Gibson wants to play for Ireland again but he couldn’t play for Trap.

But the headline alone could hardly do justice to the full force of the interview the Everton midfielder has given Irish journalists in Manchester, as the man who stepped back from international football finally gave public vent to the anger and frustration which has been boiling up inside him ever since Giovanni Trapattoni left him out of the Euro 2012 finals in Poland.

This is Darron Gibson’s side of that story.