When you feel the need for a presentation of a scouting app after just four games to explain why it's not that important to go to matches all the time, then there's a problem. The problem is you're doing too much explaining.
Managers matter, coaches matter, but nothing in football matters as much as players. And one of the problems with Irish soccer is the obsession with whoever's in the technical area, rather than on the pitch.
Yes, other countries with similar resources have gone down this road before and come out the other side. Just look at Wes Hoolahan for evidence. He spent the vast majority of his career in the lower divisions in England, and in Scotland.Stephen Kenny was very dismissive of the notion that 'we don't have the players'.
Action was needed. Something to give a flicker of hope before heading to Wembley to take on England's Under-23 B team on Sunday.They need someone to be the sparkler sending out white light. Need to bring different stuff to the party. The zip and buzz and air of the unexpected.
Ferguson had a decent effort that clipped a Finnish body and looked as if it could go anywhere. Not under the bar, though.
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