Trap Out and/or Delaney Out

[Sullivinho]

On the BBC, a few days ago, they had people mailing in their greatest ever Fergie 11. I couldn't believe that Carrick got in quite a few teams when you think of some of the midfielders they have had under Ferguson.

No sooner is the league title in the bag than Michael begins churning out aliases and mailbombing the BBC. No rest for the...relatively mediocre.

[Fixer82]

Despite being relegated last year Doyle was immense against Italy.

In Euro 2012???

[Stuttgart88]

Yes, I thought it was clear in that game just how good a payer he was despite being in the inferior side.

[Fixer82]

Ok, all I remember was his run at the goal at start of game but not much else. In fairness, I don't think any of our strikers got much of a sniff of the ball in Euro 2012

[DannyInvincible]

Trap to Napoli?: http://balls.ie/football/trapattoni-...he-napoli-job/

Giovanni Trapattoni has given the clearest indication yet (bar his team selections) that he thinks his time as Ireland manager may be coming to an end, but retire, noooo, Trapattoni wants the Napoli job. Of course he does.

“I always want to win,” he told Il Mattino the local Naples newspaper. “Even returning to a Serie A side like Napoli – why not?

“Am I putting myself forward for the job? Everyone knows my motto: never say never in football. I also tell club Presidents: don’t look at my birth certificate, because that doesn’t reflect my real age.”

[youngirish]

Trap to Napoli?: http://balls.ie/football/trapattoni-...he-napoli-job/

This would be the ideal situation. Not only would the FAI not have to pay him any compensation Napoli would have to buy out the remainder of his contract. Too good to be true methinks.

[tetsujin1979]

Napoli have a long standing rivaly with juventus, not sure how they would take to having Trapattoni as manager

[OwlsFan]

This would be the ideal situation. Not only would the FAI not have to pay him any compensation Napoli would have to buy out the remainder of his contract. Too good to be true methinks.

The vote is interesting:

Take him please and best of luck. 28.79% (95 votes)


Take him, leave Manuela, and have John Delaney for free. 65.15% (215 votes)


Rack off Napoli, Trap is staying put. 5.15% (17 votes)


Are you for serious Napoli? really? nooo 0.91% (3 votes)


Total Votes: 330

[wonder88]

David O Leary always said that he would like to manage Ireland someday towards the end of his career. Maybe his days of being a club manager at the top level are over now, so would many on this forum like to have the Dubliner who managed Leeds and Aston Villa replace our current Italian in the job.

[Stuttgart88]

I'd have Trap in perpetuity over O'Leary for a week.

[Charlie Darwin]

Napoli have a long standing rivaly with juventus, not sure how they would take to having Trapattoni as manager

I don't think club rivalries work quite the same way there. Italian clubs tend to cooperate a lot more and there aren't so many sacred cows.

[youngirish]

With all this speculation about Trap leaving could it be just coincidence that Alex Ferguson has decided to step down from club management after 26 years? I think not.

On a more serious note I heard recently that Bob Paisley (possibly the most successful manager in English football of all time) applied for the Ireland job in 1986 but was overlooked instead by the FAI in preference for Jack Charlton who had never won anything of note. You couldn't make this stuff up.

I suppose in hindsight Jack did okay though.

[Crosby87]

Those shirts Paisley used to wear in the 70s...

[Charlie Darwin]

With all this speculation about Trap leaving could it be just coincidence that Alex Ferguson has decided to step down from club management after 26 years? I think not.

On a more serious note I heard recently that Bob Paisley (possibly the most successful manager in English football of all time) applied for the Ireland job in 1986 but was overlooked instead by the FAI in preference for Jack Charlton who had never won anything of note. You couldn't make this stuff up.

I suppose in hindsight Jack did okay though.

You are absolutely correct. Paisley topped the initial poll by 9 votes to 3 each for Charlton, John Giles and Liam Tuohy. By the time a repeat ballot had taken place, Giles and Tuohy's votes had shifted to Charlton, and he was elected 10-8. It's worth saying that at this point Paisley had been retired for four years.

http://www.fai.ie/fai/91-history.html?start=15

[Spudulika]

Hold on, Jack was a successful club manager, a World Cup winner, respected pundit and was coming in without baggage. He had won everything as a player at Leeds, then worked wonders with Middlesborough, got Sheffield Wednesday out of the 3rd Division and to the verge of the 1st and was a respected coach and leader. Giles was never going to be let back near the job, Liam Tuohy would have been another Brian Kerr and it was really a 2 horse race. Jack did well with what has handed over to him and fair play, we overachieved and there was a moment in 1988 when, but for cheating officials (against the USSR and Holland) and out and out thuggery from that tu rd Dasayev (who is as reprehensible a person in person as he was in Hannover) Ireland could have slipped through to the last four of the Euros.

[paul_oshea]

The Meejahideen

[geysir]

Bob Paisley v Jack Charlton, it was a no brainer who was the class act. Only the FAI could manage to fxck that one up.

On Trap to Napoli? It sounds like the Napoli board want the current coaches to sign a new contract and have enlisted the support of Trap to put the pressure on them to do it, asap.

[ArdeeBhoy]

Who cares?

Like Trapp, it's ancient history...

[Bungle]

Bob Paisley was desperate for the job and apparently reckoned that Ireland could be a really top team. Liverpool were the Barcelona of that era and the bulk of their team were Irish and Scots. Many say that Bob was the greatest manager of all time and I think it's fair to say that he would have probably done a brilliant job with us, with the great players we had back then.

However, I think it's fair to say that Jack did an absolutely phenomenal job with us. He brought us to three tournaments and created one of the most difficult sides to play in world football. I remain convinced that we could have won Euro 92 if we were there, as the team was at the height of its powers. He literally scoured English football for players that were eligible to play for us. While Bob Paisley was a brilliant manager and apparently an absolute gentleman off the pitch, it is hard to picture an elderly Bob Paisley putting in the amount of mileage that Jack did.

[Drumcondra 69er]

Bob Paisley was desperate for the job and apparently reckoned that Ireland could be a really top team. Liverpool were the Barcelona of that era and the bulk of their team were Irish and Scots. Many say that Bob was the greatest manager of all time and I think it's fair to say that he would have probably done a brilliant job with us, with the great players we had back then.

However, I think it's fair to say that Jack did an absolutely phenomenal job with us. He brought us to three tournaments and created one of the most difficult sides to play in world football. I remain convinced that we could have won Euro 92 if we were there, as the team was at the height of its powers. He literally scoured English football for players that were eligible to play for us. While Bob Paisley was a brilliant manager and apparently an absolute gentleman off the pitch, it is hard to picture an elderly Bob Paisley putting in the amount of mileage that Jack did.

It's very unlikley that Paisley would have had great success with us had he got the job, he unfortunately began to suffer from the early stages of Altzheimers not long after before getting an official diagnosis in the early 90's. Certainly a Paisley with all his faculties would have been a great appointment and the vote when the job was being awarded was a total farce in time honoured FAI fashion but I think we did okay with Jack.....