Director of Football’s refusal to face the music only deepens concerns around Ireland manager search
An Irish job for an Irish coach. We have learned the hard way that foreigner managers, even those based in England, cannot be tempted to takeCanham’s decision to spin a vague excuse
The solution has been staring the FAI in the face all along. It is probably too soon for Stephen Bradley or Damien Duff to take the top/toughest job in Irish sport but they are the future of the game.If it ends up being Chris Hughton or John O’Shea, great servants of Irish football at different ends of their coaching careers, so be it.
What a sorry mess we are in. We needed to hear from Canham in a public setting, not through in-house channels. This is amateur hour stuff. A throwback to the worst of times.This century, the Welsh FA have turned to Mark Hughes, John Toshack, the late Gary Speed, Chris Coleman and Ryan Giggs. Besides two years of Berti Vogts, Scotland have not contemplated a non-Scottish manager. From Matt Busby to Jock Stein, Alex Ferguson to Gordon Strachan, through to Steve Clarke, it’s been one of their own.
What a deep hole he leaves behind, especially when it comes to asking the Government for additional funding. I feel for O’Shea the most. The FAI have put him in an embarrassing situation. The job may come to him permanently after every other possible avenue is exhausted. Canham is the focus now. Is he qualified to be the FAI director of football? Was he over-promoted to his current position? He only spent a year as the Premier League’s director of football. We need to ask, why was that the case? And why is he hiding behind FAI TV?
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