During his time as Ireland manager, it’s fair to say that Giovanni Trapattoni had his favourites when it came to picking squads and teams. After landing the job in 2008, the Italian football ...

Show more Italian football manager Giovanni Trapattoni said "A good manager makes a team 10% better and a bad manager makes it 30% worse". In this six-part series for the BBC World Service ...

Ireland went there under Stephen Kenny, drawing 1-1 in the Nations League, and the place had improved significantly since Giovanni Trapattoni's visit in 2009. Back then, it seemed that ...