ABOUT RIGHT ANARL. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, GLENN WHELAN has urged everyone to take a step back from James McClean and give him space to breathe in the next month as the build-up to Euro 2012 picks up pace. Whelan, who turned up at Carton House to promote the new and extravagantly named addidas boot 'The Predator, Lethal Zones' is delighted McClean made the squad but believes that there is too much hype attached to the young Derryman. "For James, everything has gone right for him at the right time but he is only a young lad and has only just got into the Sunderland team so I don't think anybody, especially us as players and people of the press, should be putting the pressure on him. "He doesn't need the pressure of being compared to this player and that player because if it doesn't work for him then the shoe is on the other foot and people will want to forget about him and say 'oh look, there's someone else'." "The big thing for James was getting in the squad, so what does he want to do now? Does he just want to stay in the squad or get in the team? That's what he has to look at. Get in the team first and do well. We need people who are on form and he is definitely one of them." Whelan also revealed Marc Wilson's happiness at receiving a call from Giovanni Trapattoni before the final squad was named. "I spoke to Marc and he said that he'd spoken to the manager of Ireland and he's told him he's not out of his plans. He was delighted to get the phone call. He knew people were still watching him," said Whelan, who believes that whatever problems might have existed between Wilson and Trapattoni have now passed. "I don't think it was ever anything to come from Mark. I think he always wanted to play, he always made himself available but he wasn't picked at times so what can you do? You can't twist a manager's arm and say, 'you should pick me'. "All Marc had to do was keep doing what he was doing which was playing well for Stoke and then people were going to notice." http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/g...ng-on-young-shoulders-of-mcclean-3104086.html
