The Association is now at risk of losing half of its State funding – we explain how they got themselves in this mess.
Gavin Cooney THIS SHOULD HAVE been a showpiece week for the FAI, with Sunday’s Cup final between Bohemians and St Patrick’s Athletic anticipated to be the best-attended domestic game in Irish history.
A statement issued after the meeting by the FAI said the board would take time to consider their next steps, but affirmed their commitment to meeting the quota. The clock is now ticking. Fast. The board proposed that it would be extended to 14 directors, with the addition of one elected football director and one independent director, with each different constituency required to propose a female director on an annually rotating basis.
Some objected to what they saw as an overreach by the board in putting forward only one motion for a vote. The Leinster Football Association – part of the amateur football constituency – got wind of the Universities’ alternative submission, and wrote to the FAI board yesterday, telling them that that both motions should be put up for a vote at the EGM or otherwise it shouldn’t go ahead.
Some figures in amateur football have been fighting to do exactly that, promising that they would “take back football.”
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