Andy Reid(b 1982)

[irishfan86]

I find it bizarre that Keane is calling Reid's exclusion a challenge, and yet was foaming at the mouth when Staunton excluded Liam Miller.

Guess it comes down to Keane respecting Trap...

[Stuttgart88]

Did anyone notice Liam Mackey's article yesterday, giving a bit more detail on the spat between Reid & Trap?

[drummerboy]

Did anyone notice Liam Mackey's article yesterday, giving a bit more detail on the spat between Reid & Trap?

No have you got a link.

Rumour I heard was that there was a spat in the bar between Trap who had just arrived and Reid who had also just arrived into bar. Trap ordered Reid to bed but he refused and was eventually persuaded by Brady to leave and go to his room.

[paul_oshea]

ha that sounds awful stupid.

keane is getting annoying now, talking about everything to deflect from himself. He only said that so he could use it against reid to get him to better himself for sunderland. There is an awful amount of hypocrisy in football.

[Stuttgart88]

No have you got a link.

Rumour I heard was that there was a spat in the bar between Trap who had just arrived and Reid who had also just arrived into bar. Trap ordered Reid to bed but he refused and was eventually persuaded by Brady to leave and go to his room.

From yesterday's Examiner:

The Dubliner was left on the bench for the World Cup qualifying win against Cyprus at Croke Park four weeks ago after claims that he and Trapattoni almost came to blows following the victory over Georgia in September, when the 69-year-old Italian was said to have broken up a late-night singing session led by a guitar-strumming Reid at the team’s hotel.

[shakermaker1982]

From yesterday's Examiner:

The Dubliner was left on the bench for the World Cup qualifying win against Cyprus at Croke Park four weeks ago after claims that he and Trapattoni almost came to blows following the victory over Georgia in September, when the 69-year-old Italian was said to have broken up a late-night singing session led by a guitar-strumming Reid at the team’s hotel.

RIP Andy Reid's international career under the Trap regime. Impossible to come back from that - the Trap is a pensioner

[geysir]

Trap breaks up an (illegal) late post match singing session a couple of days before our next game.

At long last we have a manager with cojones.

[centre mid]

Its more likely that he took umbridge with Reid murdering Damien Rice songs....

[Sligo Hornet]

Wasn't Andy just singing for his supper?!

[geysir]

Might have all been different if he was singing the Good Ship Kan goor oooooh

[tetsujin1979]

Its more likely that he took umbridge with Reid murdering Damien Rice songs....

not possible....

[geysir]

already murdered?

[elroy]

Its more likely that he took umbridge with Reid murdering Damien Rice songs....

Well he has more time to practice them now along with the new instrument hes learning for that TG4 show.........cringe.

[Wolfie]

From yesterday's Examiner:

The Dubliner was left on the bench for the World Cup qualifying win against Cyprus at Croke Park four weeks ago after claims that he and Trapattoni almost came to blows following the victory over Georgia in September, when the 69-year-old Italian was said to have broken up a late-night singing session led by a guitar-strumming Reid at the team’s hotel.

I heard this rumour a number of weeks ago - the version of events that I heard was that drink was involved, Trapp broke up the session and Reid "went for him".

I've a feeling that fact and fiction may have blurred here, as this story has been circulating since immediately after the Georgia game.

Purple Monkey Dishwasher.

[geysir]

Have you ever heard of an Irish session that did not involve drink?

So the inevitable line added was "there must have been drink involved"
and instantly accepted as gospel.
Has much more cred than a PMD

[shakermaker1982]

good job the Trap didn't have to endure the Harry Ramsden challenge........

on second thoughts when you look at Reidy......

[irishfan86]

I obviously don't know Andy Reid personally at all, but from what I've seen in interviews, this doesn't sound like him at all.

Can anyone honestly see Andy Reid lunging at a 69 year old Trapattoni?

At worst I could hear some disgruntled remarks, but this story reeks of bull****.

[Noelys Guitar]

I obviously don't know Andy Reid personally at all, but from what I've seen in interviews, this doesn't sound like him at all.

Can anyone honestly see Andy Reid lunging at a 69 year old Trapattoni?

At worst I could hear some disgruntled remarks, but this story reeks of bull****.

I agree. Surely loads of people would have seen this happen and yet all we have is vague details of something that might have happened. It is just as likely that nothing ever happened between Reid and Trap. No bar. No lingalong. No bust up.

[irishfan86]

We have to remember too that this is the same manager who dropped Pirlo.

For good or ill, he has a system, and it seems that playmaking central midfielders are incompatible with it.

[geysir]

It's evident that he wasn't picked to play before the alleged late night alcohol lubricated session in Mainz.
But there was a glimmer of him on the sidelines being told to get ready to come on as a sub in the game against Georgia.
His árse has been sat firmly on the bench for the 2 games after that
Now people are looking for reasons as to why he is not in the squad.

Something happened.