Dan McDonnell of the Irish Independent and journalist Johnny Ward joined the Football Show on Saturday to discuss the fallout surrounding the publication of the FAI’s revised accounts.
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The FAI was a boys club, drinking buddies, who's main interest was what could be done to boost their bank accounts while getting away with it, as opposed to actually putting football in Ireland first ahead of their own self-interests. JD should be going to jail but will never happen.
The real problem with the FAI is of course paying the management teams of Trap , O'Neill and Mick Mac over 7 million euro dollars per year for the last 7 years and getting zero world cup Qualifications in that time! That is 42 million of the 55 million debt spent on idiot managers who play a stoneage hapless and hopeless longball game! Joe Schmidt the successful rugby coach is paid 400,000 per year 4 times less than each of the last three FAILED Irish soccer managers!! This is the REAL problem here with the finances!! Reckless vast overpaying of useless Trap O'Neill and Mick Mac!! In future an Irish soccer managers yearly salary should be CAPPED at 200,000 per year And the entire management teams yearly salary not exceed 400,000 per year!! Qualifications for world cups and Euro Cups is an absolute must or if managers fail to qualify then sack them after their failed Qualification!! Never offer a big money contract to a manager who fails to qualify for the world cup or the euro cup!!👹👹👹👺👺👺👎👎👎
Its been an looming train wreck for years with lots of signals suggesting disastrous derailments.. Brian O'Nolan' s 'At Swim Two Birds/The Third Policeman' etc would be LIKE documentaries if he wrote a book on the FAI from beyond the grave. Generally speaking, associations, like the FAI, FIFA, Olympic committees etc are open season for the gouger class who can get their feet under the table and with the likes of ex knicker salesmen like Blather in charge and can make zillons in under the table commercial deals and skims from in house revenues, not to mention fix results to suit sponsors – viz Thierry Henry ludicrous handball decision. They also have complicated constitutional frameworks that serve as Chinese Walls to make them impervious to scrutiny and Third World gangster connections that you make any investigation a perilous enterprise. It took the intervention of the FBI to sort out the last FIFA scumbaggery.
What about the dopey fans, worshipping Delaney because he bought a couple of trays of lager on a train to dish put amongst them. " he's one of our own, he's one of our own, John Delaney, he's one of our own" MUPPETS!!!
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Good lord.
Delaney should be thrown in jail.
Liquidate the FAI and start again
Boring panel.
Have IFA run football for the entire island. New flag, new anthem.
The FAI was a boys club, drinking buddies, who's main interest was what could be done to boost their bank accounts while getting away with it, as opposed to actually putting football in Ireland first ahead of their own self-interests. JD should be going to jail but will never happen.
Dan and Johnny look like they don't like each other very much
Jasus Dan come up for some air man
I think he start arguing with himself at one point 😂 😂 😂
But it's time for a new football governing body scrap the FAI
Love dans analysis, you can sense his passion for the sport
The FAI should be exiled to Craggy Island.
Should have listened a bit more to the bean counters….who would say that at the time and not be laughed at??
Why is Johnny ward sitting watching his laptop during a broadcast?
put the IRFU in charge
Weird body language between Dan McConnell and Johnny Ward. They are like a couple in couple's therapy.
The real problem with the FAI is of course paying the management teams of
Trap , O'Neill and Mick Mac over 7 million euro dollars per year for the last 7 years and getting zero world cup Qualifications in that time!
That is 42 million of the 55 million debt spent on idiot managers who play a stoneage hapless and hopeless longball game!
Joe Schmidt the successful rugby coach is paid 400,000 per year 4 times less than each of the last three FAILED Irish soccer managers!!
This is the REAL problem here with the finances!!
Reckless vast overpaying of useless Trap O'Neill and Mick Mac!!
In future an Irish soccer managers yearly salary should be CAPPED at 200,000 per year
And the entire management teams yearly salary not exceed 400,000 per year!!
Qualifications for world cups and Euro Cups is an absolute must or if managers fail to qualify then sack them after their failed Qualification!!
Never offer a big money contract to a manager who fails to qualify for the world cup or the euro cup!!👹👹👹👺👺👺👎👎👎
A disgrace we dont know the half of it
Johhny looking off into the distance searching for an answer to all of this lunacy
Its been an looming train wreck for years with lots of signals suggesting disastrous derailments.. Brian O'Nolan' s 'At Swim Two Birds/The Third Policeman' etc would be LIKE documentaries if he wrote a book on the FAI from beyond the grave. Generally speaking, associations, like the FAI, FIFA, Olympic committees etc are open season for the gouger class who can get their feet under the table and with the likes of ex knicker salesmen like Blather in charge and can make zillons in under the table commercial deals and skims from in house revenues, not to mention fix results to suit sponsors – viz Thierry Henry ludicrous handball decision. They also have complicated constitutional frameworks that serve as Chinese Walls to make them impervious to scrutiny and Third World gangster connections that you make any investigation a perilous enterprise. It took the intervention of the FBI to sort out the last FIFA scumbaggery.
What about the dopey fans, worshipping Delaney because he bought a couple of trays of lager on a train to dish put amongst them. " he's one of our own, he's one of our own, John Delaney, he's one of our own" MUPPETS!!!
Kerr, Sadlier and Quinn
Get them back involved, ditch the whole useless board
Corrupt politicains ,corrupt police force ,corruption is an accepted part of life in Ireland .