DAN MARTIN HAS announced he will retire from professional cycling at the end of the season.
The 35-year-old Irishman has called time on his career after 14 years. He won five Grand Tour stage victories and had six top-10 finishes in Grand Tours.
“After 14 seasons as a professional cyclist, I have decided to call it a day,” the Irish Olympian said.
“Though this huge decision has taken much thought, I feel that the time is right to move on as I want to achieve so many other things in life.”
“In some ways, deciding to stop has been challenging and complex; it’s perhaps one of the biggest and most important decisions I have ever made; and in other ways, it’s been easy. Though I am still competitive, I’ve realised that racing has lost the fun element: the whole reason I race in the first place.
“I still love cycling and feel privileged to have called racing bikes, something I have relished since I was a kid, my ‘job.’ Through cycling, I have met so many amazing people who have enriched my life and shared some incredible experiences with them.
“Giving 100% to what I do has always been how I operate. Though I could continue racing for a few years to come, and for many, this would seem like the obvious thing to do; I am at a point where I’m ready to take on some exciting new challenges in life.”
Thankyou for all the support over the years. pic.twitter.com/c1Kf30ZlVK
— Dan Martin (@DanMartin86) September 4, 2021
Martin currently rides for Israel Start-Up Nation. As part of that team, he secured stage wins at the Vuelta a España in 2020 and the Giro d’Italia in 2021.
He will continue to compete until the end of this campaign and rides in the Tour of Britain which starts in Penzance on Sunday.
“I’m also looking forward to being more present as a father and husband at home and doing some simple things that are not compatible with the requirements of a cycling career, like going for a run with my wife,” he said.
“With the finish line in view, I’ve dug into training over the last few weeks and am looking forward to having an impact in my final few races and hopefully ending this period of my life in style.”
Oh thank you! Now Delaney out the gap as well!
@Don Juan: Delaney isn’t going anywhere. This will appease enough people to allow him to stay where he is. Hope I’m wrong though.
@Jane: he could get promoted to UEFA or FIFA job which would take care of that.
@Jane: nail on head
@Don Juan: They’ve gone so he can stay! That’s what he does.
@Don Juan: That con artist has contracts put in place to make it so they can’ afford to sack him. And he sure ain’t stepping down from the handy number he’s made of the job.
@Don Juan: This is the best thing to happen to Irish football in a long time. Would be even better if John Delaney and his board got the axe as well but they appear to be omnipotent. Would be good to see Stephen Kenny get the manager’s job now.
@James Clancy: …Stephen Kenny of course won’t get the manager’s job though.
@James Clancy: he didn’t last very long in a club like Dunfermline, why would you give him an international job??
@Don Juan:
True, it was Delaney that gave them contract extensions only this year until 2020.
Another expensive pay-off (O’ Neill on alomsot 40,000 a week and Keane on more than 10,000 a week.
Now a new search and more way-over-the-top contracts for a new man and his team.
plus ça change
@James Clancy: if he does, he’ll be treated like Brian Kerr and dismissed as not good enough and disposable once a more flamboyant, recognised manager becomes available. I hope I’m wrong and we give someone with a progressive mindset who is given time. Although enough has been wasted. O’Neill should’ve let go once all that talk of Stoke was going on. It became clear that O’Neill was about the short game, negotiate a good deal, save his job and then get a payout when things went wrong. We’re a year less developed, less cohesive and have regressed massively. I’d be surprised the best manager in the world would be to able to pick up the confidence of that squad.for a while.
@Don Juan: https://www.change.org/p/football-association-of-ireland-remove-john-delaney-as-head-of-the-fai%C2%A0
@James Clancy: then we’ll be lambasting him in two years time! Ain’t got the players
Keep the pressure on Delaney, this is a tactic to cover himself, let’s not fall for it
@Jason Oliver: here here ,full steam ahead for Delaney the cowboy.
@Jason Oliver: spot on. 2016 Euros were unreal and only narrowly lost to eventual finalists and should be winners the French. Time for a change but thanks for the memories and all the best!!
@samstheman: if Delaney was English the media would have had him sacked years ago. The 42 , Rte etc. need to give coverage to the fact that a huge majority of our fans want this poisonous man out of Irish football
@Jason Oliver: Maybe it was DOBBIES decision. who knows the way things are done in slimey FAI.
@Jason Oliver: Your wasting your time posting this rubbish.Do you think that all the negative comments that you and others post about Delaney is going to make a blind bit of difference to a man that has a neck like a jockey’s nether regions.
He has the FAI Board in the palm of his hand
Chill out The removal of Delaney won’t come anytime soon.
@Nick Condon Sen: your wasting your time on me pal
Get back on your bar stool
@Nick Condon Sen: and more importantly, he’s completely unaccountable to anyone, so doesn’t need to make any public appearances, or even appear before the government as the company he leads (remember, they are private) gets native pubic grants and has misused that public money. all it takes is a few “handouts” to individuals who claim to represent community raised football teams, and the job is yours.
@Gulliver Foyle: he works from the Hickey playbook. Divide and conquer within the organisation to keep power by promising grants to their home clubs. Then sit back in your ivory tower and amass wealth (sell off your private assets for inflated prices to your own organisation. Then act shocked when you see no bums on seats.
@samstheman: The only way to oust Delaney, as unfair as it would be on the players is nobody to attend irish matches till he’s gone and make it known why people aren’t attending.
Thanks for some great memories. They definitely outweigh the bad ones.
@Ned Flanders: You must have a better memory than the rest of us.
@Sean: Yes for me anyway, sitting in the pub watching Robbie Brady score against Italy in 2016 and Shane Long scoring past Neuer to beat Germany the year previous were. Amazing times. MON has had an awful year but he gave us great memories to be fair to him
@Ned Flanders: ?
@Brian Corcoran: Agreed. They got us to the knockout stages of the euros and one game from the World Cup (albeit we got hammered) but their tenure wasn’t all bad!
@Brian Corcoran: well said Brian. It’s amazing how a nation with no pretensions to soccer greatness 25 years ago has a handful of good wins, one good tournament run & suddenly the performances aren’t good enough?! Fickle fans altogether. MON hasn’t given us the most attractive football but, as a Celtic fan, I wasn’t exactly waiting with baited breath. Jack’s stuff was rarely watchable but when you play to strengths it can be exciting if it gets the result. Thanks Martin and come back and see us…hopefully when we’re winning something.
@Ned Flanders: I think Ned can remember things that didn’t happen at all
@Sean: Facts are facts There were some good times during his and Keane’s reign.
But as somebody who is Celtic fan I feel sympathy for the man but unfortnately he was out of touch with modern style football.
Like myself he is of senior vintage and maybe our age grouo are out of step with modernity Hmm.
It would be interesting to see what the modern man of football the much touted Stephen Kenny would bring to the table.
He or somebody like Neil Lennon might be worth a go.
Anyway life motors on
LUIMNEACH ABÚ
@Anthony Walsh: They got us to a 24 team Euros by finishing third in the qualifying group, then got us to the second round by again finishing third in the group. Any year prior to this they would never have been at the tournament and wouldnt have qualified from the group. I would say MON got lucky with the expansion of the tournament more than anything he had done personally.
@Neill Trebble: no pretensions to soccer greatness 25 years ago? It’s 28 years since our greatest ever run, to the quarter finals of Italia 90…30 years since we beat England and were unlucky not to make the semi finals of Euro 88….
@Caped Crusader: coming second in a World Cup qualifying group that had Serbia, Austria and Wales in it was a great achievement. We only lost 1 of those 10 games too unlucky to not automatically qualify!
@Anthony Walsh: But we didn’t qualify. We are on a par with Wales, Austria have been shown to be quite poor and we shouldn’t be beaten 5-1 by Denmark. I cant see how that is to be celebrated? The only thing people throw around to defend O’Neill is the Euro’s, which as i have shown, we benefited by the tournaments expansion. We will never know but i would hazard a guess and say if we had any half decent manager in charge we would have won our World Cup group. Excluding Leicester what has MON achieved in management? He won tournaments with Celtic in a 2 team league and got Villa to 6th. Its hardly to stuff of trailblazers.
@Caped Crusader: Wales and Serbia have better players though. And Austria certainly are stronger up front. So to be ahead of two of them is creditable. Irish fans have crazy expectations. If you’re ranked 4th but come second that is over-achievement no matter how much people like to paint it as not being.
Unless John Delaney and his mates leave nothing will ever change. Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results
@Kevin Kane: Delaney is and always was the problem.
@Kevin Kane: did you know a report on the single bidder for rural broadband was realised today. Bread Circus
@Kevin Kane: never a truer word spoken, lip service paid to grassroots and loi, peoples hard work that drive these grassroots clubs not delaney and his cronies.
@Kevin Kane: True , Delaneys going nowhere though , 400 grand a year for sitting on his hole all day doing nothing , can’t blame him.
Pls can we have Tony O Donoghue with one final interview with O Neill-he who laughs last laughs the longest
@Baz: Grow up for God sake,such triviality
Thanks for EURO 2016 and those two results against Germany in the qualifiers, memories I’ll never forget but it’s time for fresh faces.
Cheerio! Cheerio! Cheerio!
@Evan Carey: Bet you weren’t saying that when we beat Italy for one of our best ever days. He deserved a chance turn it around, Irish footballs problems go way beyond Martin O Neill.
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: No I wasn’t, that day was one of the best days in Irish football in my lifetime, brought a tear to the eye. But that was over 2 years ago and football is a results game and MON simply hasn’t had them since then! There’s been a failure to develop the next generation of players and the tactics employed by Ireland recently have been a joke 11 men behind the ball even playing at home! MON and Keane had their chance time for someone else!
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: he’s had a year to turn things around after the Denmark humiliation, and we’ve gotten worse. He had to go!
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: I was At that game like most other games over the last ten years. Different times and different outlook. He had a chance to change and his team selection and set up proved he has no intention of doing so. When his run is worse than traps then it’s time to thank him and let him go
@The Bloody Nine: not disputing that he was given time couldn’t turn it around, just don’t see the need to mock after the good days at the start and middle ie Germany Bosnia Italy.
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: I’ll never forget the Euros and I’m really grateful to O’Neill for it, but there comes a time in sport where a change is needed. His approach simply wasn’t yielding the same results anymore and he didn’t seem capable of turning it around. He was given a full year after the Denmark game to do that, and realistically speaking things only got worse. A lot of management in sports comes down to diminishing returns. The same approach repeated gets less of a reaction. The O’Neill approach of not telling players the team until just before kickoff may have worked as a motivational tool early on, but it seemed to just make the team more disjointed. Keane bollocking everyone may have been a good motivator too, but lately it just seemed to be a cause of tension in the camp.
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: I completely agree with you. I get no pleasure in seeing him sacked, and the good times outweighs the bad for me.
@Eric Djemba-Djemba: Well said – and Delaney will not be moved even if there were a million negative posts against him on the 42
Big Sam. You heard it here 1st.
@Sean Byrne: bring him on
@Sean Byrne: fully agree. Get’s the best out of average players
@Sean Byrne: Delaney and anyone who was licking him out, Stephen Kenny in, and start from the ground up, we can wait a few years ,at least we will have players who want to be inside that jersey…and while we’re at it , lose that ” Boys in green ” bull , Time for men now ….onward …
@Sean Byrne: we can’t afford him unless Delaney takes a pay cut
@Sean Byrne: To be fair, he’s the only England manager to have a 100% record.
Wenger In
@Young Politician: wenger? jesus wept!!
Stephen Kenny or Mick McCarthy please
@baby hamster: Stephen Kenny give him the 21s and see how good he is. He is Not ready and the team is not ready. Needs a European coach.
@baby hamster: not Mick Mc, never go back ! Chris Hughton for me !!!
@Ben Hayes: Kenny in
@Nightowl: Hughton would be mad to take it.
@Nightowl: Chris Hughton is managing a Premier League team and doing well in his job. No way would he take the Ireland job.
@Ben Hayes: So we can pay for his interpreteur, the instructions to pass the ball will have to go through 5 people before players will know what to do #trap
Stephen Kenny in. May as well try it out. Get rid of Delaney which prob wont happen until 2020. Then bring in either mccarthy or niall quinn as ceo, and brian kerr in some develop role. Thanks for all the memories though.
@Paddy Norton: like the way you are thinking …
Martin tried his best with the resources he had. His track record at club level proves he is a great manager, however in this case I think this decision is probably for the best as it just was’nt working. I wish Martin all the best though and don’t blame him for the underlying issues in irish football.
@David Byrne: Agree David.
@David Byrne: spot on David we’ve got a second division team playing in a premier league. Martin and Co did the best with what they had unfortunately no world class players available at.the moment. The team has great.heart but that alone won’t win games
@David Byrne: Maybe at the beginning he tried his best with what he had, but last year the results and football have been the worst of any international side in memory? The lack of attacking cohesion passing shots is unforgivable? N Ireland with league 2 players played his team off the pitch at home??? They made n Ireland look like Spain n Ireland who finished bottom of their group without a goal!!! Throw in Denmark game most defensive boring game Ireland has played in years in a dead rubber and you can’t defend him?
@Dougal67: “without a point”
@Derek Hackett: are Scotland,Iceland,N Ireland, Denmark premier league? Their players come from similar leagues as ours do and they are all doing better than us. N Ireland could easily have won that game last week 2 or 3 nil.
Another short term fix for a long term problem
Didn’t have much time for the management team so they had to go but this is like cutting off the leaves though the roots are rotten. Keep up pressure on JD
March to FAI headquarters to call for all officials to resign. starting with delaney.
That has certainly brightened up a dull, dreary wet day.
Off you go John Delaney we half way there now
Said to my wife this morning “For my birthday I would like Martin o Neill to retire”. Birthday wishes do come true.
@Robert Duggan White: and if ya get bored with the wife in a few yrs ya can make another wish so :) lol!
@Robert Duggan White: did you get your birthday b…. Did i type what i was thinking and Oh happy birthday
@Robert Duggan White: Good for you Im delighted
Any man with a double barrell name must be a man with class -well perceived class at any rate.
Are you applying for the job ?
LUIMNEACH ABÚ
Delaney OUT!!!
Thank you Jebus!!
Now get rid of the rest,and Delaney’s lackies.
#delaneyout!!!
Delaney now will very publically bring in a new management team and “a new era for the football family”, talking about the young players that have already been blooded and full of positivity for the future. All change will be futile until there’s change at the very top.
Bring back Jack!
Mick McCarthy with Robbie Keane as his number 2. That’s what a little dickie bird told me.
@TellingItAsItIs: they say that mick mccarthy is the backbone of the party
When will Delaney get the hint that he is not wanted and that he is the problem of Irish football at the moment. HE HAS TO GO. I wouldn’t even mind if he took a big pay off with him just as long as he is gone. And then start with new guys who are passionate about Irish football from grassroot up to the national team. Delaney OUT OUT OUT!!!
Happy Wednesday, has made my week. Thank god we might be allowed pass the ball now
The players are still mediocre at best though – nothing can or will change for a few years. System needs to be improved from the top down
Get Stephen mcguinness in, Delaney out. Stephen Kenny in as a new manager.
Excellent news …arise mr brian kerr
@John O Sullivan: his results where worse. 4th in qualification. No thanks. Kenny in
@prop joe: he has the highest win percentage of any Ireland manager in the last 40 years, possibly more. That said. He shouldn’t get the job. Don’t believe in reappointing managers.
#DelaneyOut
Ireland’s Sepp Blatter.
He is the scape goat now time to get rid of Delaney now! Mick McCarthy is coming in next ha
Quick Arsene Wenger still available
Its delaney who needs to go use dopes.
@Mr Monday: Which dopes? What should he use them for??
I’d like to thank O’Neill and Keane for the Euros in 2016 and getting us to the World Cup playoffs. These were no mean feasts and should be remembered in any appraisal of their tenure. That said, it’s felt like they’d run out of road for a while now and another campaign have been more than a bridge too far. I’d like to see Stephen Kenny brought in myself. He has a track record of getting Irish players to play with the ball at their feet and their heads up.
As much as I like MON and Roy their time was up. Whoever gets it now there has to be a succession plan put in place. All teams from senior to underage playing the same style of football with an empahsis on keeping it on the ground.
MIck McCarthy would get my vote with Lee Carsley as asst manager or U21 manager. Kerr in a director of football role and all 3 to be more invovled at LOI level in developing young players through Irish clubs
In other words pi&& off your fired.
Is Kenny the right man ? I doubt he’d be allowed be FAI to do it his way only, and would he want to give up what he’s started at Dundalk. Ex players with no experience should be avoided. Tempt Chris Houghton is the way I’d go
In fairness martin O’Neill has done his best with the players he had .This current panell is just not good enough who would want the job as manager time Will tell thank you martin O’Neill we had our good times to
@deirdreanndoherty: no he didnt. Not in 2018 anyway.
@deirdreanndoherty: Agreed. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
@deirdreanndoherty: Yes because repeatedly playing Cyrus centre mid when we had Conor Hourihane and others is “doing the best with the players he had”
mutual agreement…yeah right
@Ardmore02: Exactly Ardmore 02 it was only the other day he said he was determined to get it right. He was either payed off or told to go. I would guess the first option.
How come the greatest liability of all remains in-situ. I hope the FAI don’t think for one moment that they are codding the Irish supporters. The departure of O’ Neill and co addresses only the current issue…..we need to look to the future but to do that we need someone else holding the reins in the FAI otherwise things will never really change!
Give Dunphy the job… Sure he has all the answers….
@Alan Foley: the ultimate hurler in the ditch. But how would he critise the irish manager then.
@Alan Foley: he had an answer all right. Keane. And we all know how that went. Saipain still smarts when I think about it. Ahhhhhhhh
Thank Fu#k good riddance.
That’s all well and good but i think Delaney needs to go as well. We only have a small pool of players to work with and the quality is poor. O’Neill and keane done nothing wrong but lets see will anybody do better.
Knee jerk reaction again. FAI taking easy option.
If God Almighty was in charge of that team he wouldn’t have done any better. We are devoid of good recognised strikers and at the moment in a rebuilding stage. Having wathched the Denmark Game the last night it’s an Irish team full of spirit and with the new young signings O Neill has introduced the signs are good.
This isn’t a premiership team where you can sack the manager and expect a result next week. patience is required. O Neill was on the right track. I think he’s a huge loss.
@Pol Mac Aoidh: pol we could have arguero or mbappe up front it would make no difference. We don’t create chances in the first place because of the way oneill has the team playing. Think about it that game against Denmark nothing at stake and he puts everyone behind the ball. At some stage you do have to score a goal to win and not just the clean sheet .
@Pol Mac Aoidh: Are you for real? One win in nine games can hardly be described as a knee jerk reaction. He had obviously lost the dressing room. Thats why he left and didnt push for compo.
@Paul Kelleher: let’s see what the next manager will do. It’s a rebuilding era at this stage and whilst you’re right no results in 9 games where were the goals going to come from. I can see more young offensive players being introduced in the last few games which is good from an Irish perspective. Chris Houghton is my shout. Excellent Manager .
Boycott attending Ireland matches completely, until Delaney is removed.
@neuromancer: they weren’t boycotting him in Gdansk when he was buying all the drink on the train.
Ray Houghton please. Break the bank to get him. Get Delaney out and have Brian Kerr and Stephen Kenny involved with the underage systems.
They gave us great moments but after all the turmoil in the last few months it’s probably for the best. Can’t see Rice staying now though. What about Steve Bruce for the job?
@Nicholas Ryan: Steve Bruce? Really? What has he done only got sacked from his last couple of jobs. He aint the man for us. King Kenny Stephen that is and then Cork city can dominate the LOI.
Sweet mother of god. Thank you Jebus
No harm. Now get someone with a modern outlook
Who can source players through trying to play attractive football
Bring back Stan!
Thank god! Could we have Slaven Bilič now, please?
Not surprised. The team is in rag order, worst I’ve never seen them.
Jim McGuinness is the only man for the job.
Attendance only 31,000 at the Aviva!!!! and ALL school kids !!!!!.The Green Army has to rebuild or just play a League of Ireland team as the International team, more following.
Sad to see them go but we needed players
I wonder does jack Charlton have a son
The same day a report on a dodgy deal by you know is realised. Bread Circus
Wonder if Chris Houghton could be tempted?
@Richard Day: He couldn’t be. He’s not going to leave a Premier League job where he’s doing well for the Ireland job.
The problem is not Delaney or manager or coaching staff , the players are not good enough for international football , and there none coming through ,
Martin thank you for Euro 2016 that Italy win was amazing
They didn’t respect our footballing culture! Bring back the glory days with Stan!
He had to go. How could his players have confidence and belief in their own abilities when their manager publicly stated time and again that he didnt have good enough players. The manager is meant to inspire and make players feel good about themselves. Also the lack of preparation was so obvious. At least he did the decent thing and resigned.
Shock
I think the Irish team should have a say un who their next manager is as their the ones who will have work with the manager and management team not Delaney or the powers to be .The players need someone the team respect and who can get the best out them and players who are eligible to play Ireland would be proud to play for the Irish team. We need the country to start getting behind the lads again when way the dubs do.
Absolute disgrace…the lads were given chicken shit and turned it into a reasonable chicken salad. Roy Keane the Irish hero deserves better than this
@Big Smoke: lol
@Big Smoke: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Now where did I hear that before.
unless someone gets stephen kenny in and stop picking lads who cant get their game in div 1 in england we have no hope. recognise quality players from league of ireland . play them include them . last straw for o neill the 32 yr old from millwall . enuff
If it stays like this, it will never change. #JohnDelaney
Neil Lennon please
@TJB: oh no. Not Lennon. It has to be Stephen Kenny.
Is there a league of Ireland coach good enough?
Kerr and kenny in at senior and u21.
Arry Redknapp with his son Jamie as assistant, Nico Kranjcar as coach
Is Jack Charlton still alive?…just a thought…
Huzzah! Now let’s get pished and play ping-pong!
Thank God they are gone, I think Martin O’Neill had no interest in the job, and though he was doing us a favour.
Do they get a big payoff if its by mutual consent.
@Simon Peters: No. But I’m sure there’d be a sweetener
Ah, here we go again, one can only wonder what ever was wrong with Brian Kerr?. Every manager that ever took a job ended in tears, and the next will be no different. That whole applecart is rotten and needs to be heeled over as well.
Brendan Rodgers anyone?
@Shane Fearon: Jesus what planet are you
Do you think he would take that job and have to pander to Delaney.
He would have a better chance managing his neighbouring parish hurling team Cushendall
Now we will have 4 or 5 months of this name and that name and general farting about by the FAI before they appoint someone. They can’t get anything right
id rather have my eye sockets pulverized by a horse dick wearing a sandpaper condom than watch another match with O’Neill in charge again
@Ciarán Connolly: get used to it. A new manager wont do much.
Big Sam to steady the ship, why not?
It’s time to break the bank for Big Sam.
When we look back at it, the players we had weren’t up to certain standards we were setting for ourselves and Martin O’Neill still managed to get some great results out of them. The problem needed to be fixed from the top down not the bottom up. Poisened chalace for whoever gets it!
Regardless of who the new manager is , are the players we have capable of playing to a plan and delivering ? To a certain point they probably can , but against moderate opposition they are wanting in class and tactical nous , in other words they are limited in what they can achieve . Ireland don’t have the talent to deliver on the playing front at the moment I’m afraid.
Will Keane withdraw his Saipan apology now he isn’t working for the FAI anymore?
can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
Doesn’t matter who manages the team, no real class available to pick
Would like to see Stephen Kenny given a shot. Wonder how Delaney would react if Kenny wanted Kerr in his coaching/back room team?? More needs to change though. MON doesn’t do anything like the “beautiful game” in his head.
So Martin and Keane were fired because they have a poor squad of players . Does anyone really think a new manager is going to turn a bunch of poor footballers into a average to decent team . Cop on .
O’Neill and Keane are scapegoats as will be the next appointment. Delaney has single-handedly destroyed Irish football.
Silly stuff. As some already said, the players currently aren’t quite good enough. A different manager isn’t going to change that.
It’s no surprise really, since soccer would only be the 4th or 5th sport children in Ireland play in schools. Nothing wrong with that, but it does mean you will have fewer talents coming through.
@ウィリアム はげ: so how do you explain the NI team playing us off the park with a very similar level of players? I take your point though about the school issue – a residue of the old GAA soccer ban.
BIG Sam!!
Bring back Mick McCarthy, he had us playing good football. We have to be realistic as to who will want the job. On the other hand if Big Sam gets the job I’m not going to one game.
I hope all those who hounded MON and Roy out of their job should be ashamed of themselves – I for one appreciated the effort they made and some of the brilliant results they gave us we are not in the top table of football world and should not expect to win the World Cup – can’t see a big queue for the new managers job
Can the government not fxxk this guy out
Grass routes in this country is a joke. Parents should not be managing/coaching kids of their own, also thinking they are Alex Ferguson! They are kids for God’s sake! Favouritism is rife. FAI is to blame and unless this changes now.. it’s more of the same
Even Guardiola would not do anything with them
How difficult is it to manage a team who play their primary football in the premier league?
Seriously.
All that experience and such a lack lustre approach and attitude?
Some responsibility has to lie with the 11 men who fail miserably to hit a ball between 2 posts over a period of 90 minutes.
If some can do it every weekend, they can do it a few times a year.
Surely.
Better off in no competitions the way they were playing went to Poland scored 1goal and conceded 9 or 10,needs a clean out at the top who pushed them under the bus to resign and that individual still there !
https://www.change.org/p/football-association-of-ireland-remove-john-delaney-as-head-of-the-fai