Did you watch Ireland under Trap? 2 million for some of the worst football I ever watched. Seamus Coleman flying in the premier league and he plays a finished John O’Shea at right back leaving Coleman out of the squad along with Wes Hoolahan. Did Trap get any job since Ireland? Was a good managed in the 80s but a washed up hasbeen when he got the Ireland job.
Yes. I saw us competitive and with a team to be proud of.
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Exactly. Treaty United would beat Estonia.
Wow, i think you’re on the wind up mate. Embarrassed the country on a grand scale in Poland.
He never lost at home to Liechtenstein
Big Jack only drew with Liechtenstein. A spoofer who presided over a disastrous era for Irish football.
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Oh for a Paul Green and a Simon Cox.
Glenn Whelan dominating midfields across Europe
He bestrode Mainz like a colossus.
We were in a group with Spain, one of the greatest international sides in history, Italy and Croatia.
We had Sean St Ledger.
Spain and Italy contested the final. Get a grip of yourself man
Andy Reid or Wes would have made fuck all difference against Busquets, Xavi and Xabi Alonso/Fabtegas/David Silva or Modric against Croatia etc
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Trap got rid of Andy Reid as soon as he could
Steven Reid was the big loss of that era. Would have been a mainstay if he’d stayed fit
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He knew what he was at
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I’d say it was some shock to the system for Trap seeing a small tubby lad report for duty with a guitar on his back and sinking a few pints in the lounge of the hotel
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Andy Reid would have been a legend if he’d made his Ireland debut in 1974.
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If a list of the top 20 midfielders in all of the squads in that group had been drawn up, would Ireland have had even one of them?
I’ll do it now. The family are shopping, its pissing rain and the dog is walked
I was thinking about it there, i wonder could they get Fabio Capello
Croatia:
Milan Badelj (GNK Dinamo Zagreb), Tomislav Dujmović (FC Dinamo Moskva), Ivo Iličević (Hamburger SV), Niko Kranjčar (Tottenham Hotspur FC), Luka Modrić (Tottenham Hotspur FC), Ivan Perišić (Borussia Dortmund), Ivan Rakitić (Sevilla FC), Ognjen Vukojević (FC Dynamo Kyiv).
Italy:
Daniele De Rossi (AS Roma), Alessandro Diamanti (Bologna FC), Emanuele Giaccherini (Juventus) Claudio Marchisio (Juventus), Riccardo Montolivo (ACF Fiorentina), Thiago Motta (Paris Saint-Germain FC), Antonio Nocerino (AC Milan), Andrea Pirlo (Juventus).
Spain:
Xavi Hernández (FC Barcelona), Sergio Busquets (FC Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid CF), David Silva (Manchester City FC), Santi Cazorla (Málaga CF), Jesús Navas (Sevilla FC), Cesc Fàbregas (FC Barcelona), Andrés Iniesta (FC Barcelona).
Ireland:
Glenn Whelan (Stoke City FC), Keith Andrews (West Bromwich Albion FC), Aiden McGeady (FC Spartak Moskva), Darron Gibson (Everton FC), Paul Green (unattached), Damien Duff (Fulham FC), Stephen Hunt (Wolverhampton Wanderers FC), James McClean (Sunderland AFC).
Ok Straight off I’d have Duffer in a top 20… The rest aren’t even in the conversation
Said this before but the old lad that trained Denmark a few years ago.
They played a lovely style, mix of direct, longish passes when they were on and the short stuff.