“My team’s gone cold I’m wondering why
I got out of bed at all
The Dublin rain clouds up my window..
and I can’t see at all
And even if I could, my team can’t play,
Dunphy’s picture’s on my wall
It reminds me, that it is this bad,
it is this bad..”
Trap’s once great reputation is being shredded to pieces. We thought Irish football couldn’t sink lower than the Stan era. Humiliating defeats, last minute goals needed to salvage points against minnows. Bizarre player selections. It seems to be history repeating itself. Our chances of making Brazil? Slim.
Steve Staunton
Salary: €400,000
Biggest home defeat in 20 years, a 4-0 friendly loss to Holland.
Heavy 5-2 defeat in Nicosia; needed a last minute winner in San Marino; needed a last minute equaliser at home to Cyprus.
Inexplicable player selections:
Joseph Lapira, a student at Notre Dame
Giovanni Trapattoni
Salary: €1.5 million
Biggest home defeat ever, 6-1 mauling by Germany
Heavy 4-0 defeat to Spain, Needed a last minute goal in Kazakhstan
Inexplicable player selections:
Paul Green, had no club at European Championship
Both
Disintegrating relationship with press: Yes
Booing from home crowd: Yes
Incomprehensible English: Yes