Only for Caoimhin Kelleher, England would have won 5-0 or 6-0. They have a proper manager in Lee Carsley, we have a dentist that nobody had heard of four months ago. Where are we going?
Saturday was a great day for Irish football. Never mind the defeat to England. Those kind of things don't really matter. It's what goes on in Abbotstown that counts. It's how we reward those we have entrusted with the future of the game. So there was dancing in the streets when we heard of Marc Canham's new job title.
He left the FAI in April with the fall-out from his acceptance of €12000 in payment in lieu of holidays not taken dogging his final year in charge. Paul Cooke is someone I got to know when he was MD of this newspaper, and he is now President of the FAI. Looking through it, what attracted the FAI to him? Was it his spell as Lead Foundation Phase Coach - no, I have no idea, either - with Bristol City's academy?Maybe they were blown away by his six appearances - three as a sub - with Colchester United in League One.
It did give us Declan Rice, it has to be said, and his situation sums up how badly Irish football is run.Martin O'Neill was the manager who gave Rice his caps and let's look at what he has said about the player's decision to defect to England on Talksport last week.
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