"insert clever Trappatoni pun here"

Steven Stauntan, fantastic player, a great long standing servent to Irish football, God awful Manager. while Stan was in charge, What angered me most (besides the results) was the severe lack of passion and a over heightened sence of resentment to the media. fair enough the media didn't treat him that fairly but to most people they are their eyes and ears to irish football. Passion and honesty go along way with the irish public and sadly Stauntan lacked both which transferred to the style of play of the irish team.
A case in point of this was after the irish rugby game against France a couple of weeks back. It was safe to say that in the first sixty minutes ireland were played off the park by France's ferocious Back line. they came back into it in the last twenty minutes and perhaps could of won it. after the game a couple of players came out to give a post match interview. First out was Donncha O'Callaghan. The emotional pain on his body was clearly visible, what he came out with was purely led by the heart. To paraphrase what he said, was that they gave it their all, that they were dejected in the dressing room and that they were deeply disapointed and apologetic to the Irish nation for letting them down. this was real emotion. the disappointment i was personally feeling after the result disaperated to pride of the team after what O'Callaghan had said and that they cleary gave their all(as that is all we could ask for & was as unfortuantly unseen at the World cup). Next up were Eddie and BOD who showed little emotion or thought towards the fans, instead deciding to use marketing speak and reverting to old cliches "game of two halfs" "we were unlucky to to grab it." This Just angered me!

Now that Trapp is in charge i am looking forward to the passion of irish soccer to be restored. We've never had the greatest players in the world but we have had passion and heart. Passion and heart that have guided us to euro 88 and the World cups in 1990,94 and 2002. We can only await for better things to come.

Lets just hope his English is better than his German.