Here we look at the travails of those who dared to dream of disrupting history without delivering when the crunch came.

There's no harm in casting the net wide when the pursuit, official anyway, gets underway soon.

Didi Hamman doesn't live in Ireland, nor has any connection to the FAI, removing the German from the unspecific group of pundits Stephen Kenny alleges have an agenda against him.

Liverpool’s trip to Arsenal smashed the league’s all-time record with an attendance of 54,115, almost 7,000 up on the previous best for their North London derby against Spurs last year.

Eight weeks and four games of purgatory await until the international year concludes with the friendly on November 21 against New Zealand.

It was a tenure that began in November 2018, from the moment John Delaney hatched his brainwave of a succession plan that entailed Kenny spending a year as U21 boss with the guarantee of elevation to succeed Mick McCarthy.

Amid the hail of controversy over their handling of Pauw’s dismissal, the FAI’s latest promise is for Hill to speak after the men’s window concludes against Netherlands on Sunday

Ireland’s manager has hardly been seen and certainly not heard over the summer, taking a well-deserved holiday following a June window tainted by a Greek tragedy in Athens.

It's better to fall in the Autumn than seize up in the Summer, as Irish teams will notice by watching from afar, while what were deemed minnows occupy the platform they've a long way back to sharing.

Here we take a look at these pressing issues, some to be resolved swifter than others but each carrying their own degree of significance within the ecosystem of Irish football.