Czech Republic

McClean in a League of his Own

James McClean’s call-up to the Republic of Ireland squad for next week’s friendly with the Czech Republic casts the spot-light once more on the domestic game’s role in the development of international-calibre players.

Try Hard II, Try Harder: McClean Gets in

Giovanni Trapattoni has relented and included James McClean in the Republic of Ireland squad for the Czech game. The Sunderland starlet will link up with the players in Dublin ahead of next week’s friendly. Oh, and Paul Green has been called up too.

Derry Die Hard Yippee KO’d

It’s exactly like measuring four gallons of water in a five gallon jug. How do you decide who to pick and who to leave out in your midfield for a first European Championships since 1988? James McClean has been crashed out of Giovanni Trapattoni’s Euro plans like an aeroplane landing at a snow-covered LAX airport. The brightest spark at the Stadium of Light, who received international clearance from FIFA yesterday, has NOT been named in Trap’s squad for the friendly this month against the Czech’s.

Yippee Kay Olé – McClean to Czech In

JUST as it did in 2002, the summer sun will rise in the East for Irish football supporters as the dedicated and the diaspora prepare to reunite in the Polish cities of Poznan and Gdansk. And Derry’s James McClean looks set to be our new star.