Giovanni Trapattoni has to go as Irish soccer manager -- Dreadful display against Spain in European Championship is the last straw
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Giovanni Trapattoni led the Irish soccer team into the Valley of Death at these European Championships and now needs to fall on his own sword.
At 73 the quiet places beckon for the Italian who did a decent job getting Ireland to the European finals but has completely lost the plot now.
To say Ireland were unimaginative, lacking in creativity, defensive, boring and pure shite is the truth of the matter.
Trapattoni is on record as saying if you want creativity go to La Scala or Madison Square Garden.
Well if you want mediocrity leave Trap in charge of your team.
He has coached all creativity out of these players, left them the worst side at these European finals.
A few years back things seemed different. He created a good side that almost beat France in Paris to advance to the World Cup.
On that night it was a very good and killed and creative Irish side.
Indeed, we only saw one glimpse of that when they fell behind to Croatia and came powering back to one all playing good football.
The minute they equalized they fell back on the old defensive ways however and were hockeyed.
The Spanish game was embarrassing.
Okay, they are world champions but they still could have been challenged far more effectively by a team that gave some semblance of an attacking threat rather than played like entering the opponent’s half was a crime.
Ireland needs a new start for the upcoming world cup qualifying.
Trapattoni must go.
Read more: Ireland's European Championship dream annihilated at the hands of Spain
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PhlutiePhan | Jun 19, 2012, 11:12 AM EDT
@jacersagain: the Irish qualified against Estonia in a second place playoff. They were able to duck Turkey, Bosnia, Portugal; all of whom would have beaten them. You cannot wallpaper over the many cracks in the oldest team at Euro.
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WoundedKnee | Jun 18, 2012, 05:54 PM EDT
One goal scored, nine conceded. Scrap Trap.
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sirpeter | Jun 17, 2012, 04:27 PM EDT
allan07.And you lot never ever got to the finals.lol.NI the team who set a world record for not scoring even a single goal in 8 QUALIFYING matches for Euro 2004.lololol.Pure useless!!!Who would want to play for NI anyway after what ye did to Neil Lennon.A guy capped 40 times by Northern Ireland and ye go send a footballer death threats and sending him packages containing bullets just because he played for Celtic.Ye Billy boys are a bad lot.
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allan07 | Jun 17, 2012, 12:28 PM EDT
@sirpeter you lot got to the finals and made a complete arse out of yourselves. Like i predicted. No class, no skill, no hope and no chance. Even Roy Keane said they went for the sing song. Two games two defeats. What game are they playing? Cards? Nothing for a pair in this game. Northern Ireland are better. (Despite stealing some of our players under the Good Friday Agreement). How stupid was that? Clowns and the majority in Northern Ireland will be partying for weeks. Home before the postcards. Wasters!
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sirpeter | Jun 17, 2012, 07:59 AM EDT
This happens to one of the worst,lacking in any real understanding of the game of football and the Irish team I have ever read on IC.An absolutely useless,unbalanced pile of sh*te that's intended only to appeal to those who have little or no understanding of the complexities of the game.
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AOBoyle | Jun 16, 2012, 04:18 PM EDT
Well WoundedKnee, unless you can find a new Jack Charlton, I don't know who's going to do anything with that Krap panel! Sean, I'm still waiting for you to write a column on how great McIlroy is and how Tiger sucks. You've gone awful quiet on that subject. Not a peep on golf since your March 4th article lauding Rory as the new king!
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WoundedKnee | Jun 16, 2012, 03:12 PM EDT
AOBoyle: My apologies. I thought you were a shill for the poster sirpeter, who regularly posts drivel here and knows nothing about soccer. But I can see you're not. Sorry for jumping on you. But you're still wrong--I say Scrap Trap--He's Krap!
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AOBoyle | Jun 16, 2012, 10:39 AM EDT
WoundedKnee: I'm okay with your post. Unlike some, I'll admit when I make a mistake. I don't see you attacking the content of my post in regards to football, just the one factually incorrect piece in regards to clothing. You see, I'm a sports fan, not a fashion guru. I'm not familiar with you as I'm not on this site very often but I'm betting you've made your share of stupid comments too that puts you right there with me.
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WoundedKnee | Jun 16, 2012, 09:52 AM EDT
AOBoyle: "wearing a poncho and sombrero". You sound stupid enough to be sirpeter. Spaniards don't wear ponchos, and a sombrero in Spain is any kind of hat. Spaniards don't wear the wide hat associated with mariachis. Don't you even know the difference between Spain and Mexico? Sure is a lot bigger difference than between Ireland and England!
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WoundedKnee | Jun 16, 2012, 09:49 AM EDT
sirpeterdexy knows nothing of soccer. I think he told us he's from Cork. I bet he couldn't name one Corkman--outside of Keane--who ever played for Ireland. No cheating, you bum, googled answers don't count.
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AOBoyle | Jun 16, 2012, 02:54 AM EDT
What are you complaining about O'Shea, aren't you the one who said you will shout for the team who plays the beautiful game best a la Barcelona V MUFC in the Champions League a few years back. Look back at your archives. You were probably wearing a poncho and sombrero watching this game! You might want to change your slogan "Sean believes there is no sport, no match, no title, and no title the Irish should not, and cannot, win." Check your grammar on that sentence too alleged writer. As far as Trap goes, it's hard to do well at an international tournament with a team of mediocre players at best and that's exactly what the Irish team are. A 23 man squad with 16 EPl players if you still count the 3 relegated Wolves players. Not one player on the likes of United, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, or Liverpool. He overachieved getting them there. Now, you want to comment about how your boy Rory is taking Tiger's crown. What a know nothing about sports writer.
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sirpeter | Jun 15, 2012, 06:36 PM EDT
Georgie Boy.I see you're gone back to WoundedKnee the crazy Injun.lol.All those Irish players have self-belief.Every team in our group were ranked higher than Ireland.But any of those teams could also lose to Ireland if they had a bad day or a bit of bad luck.Ireland are ranked 18th in the world out of over 200.Trap has done a great job to get them to the finals.Great teams and players will make good players look poor.That's what you saw.But I don't expect you to understand that.In fact I don't expect you to understand anything.If all the Irish fans were like you it would show they had unrealistic expectations and act like you.But they don't.And all those thousands of football fans understand and they show you how wrong you are.
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jacersagain | Jun 15, 2012, 05:31 PM EDT
Wou’knee – 'Course I'm serious! I did see the matches and I saw pre-match interviews of the players, esp Captain Keane… there is no doubting that the Irish players had self-belief (ok, you might call it self-delusion). As I said earlier, it was not their commitment that let them down, it was their lack of footballing talent compared to that of other teams in the same group. >>>> BTW… You know how Belgium didn’t qualify? Well, a group of Belgian fans put themselves up for sale on eBay as the new Belgian squad after their team didn’t qualify. They were bought by an anonymous Dutch buyer today. D’ya think our superb singing fans should do the same???
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WoundedKnee | Jun 15, 2012, 03:30 PM EDT
jacersagain--"he changed the mentality of the players in the squad to that of positive self-belief."
Did you see any of the games? Positive self-belief? Are you serious?
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