There might have been nothing as clear-cut as the calling of a general election to emerge out of Uefa’s meeting with Minister for Sport Shane Ross at Leinster House yesterday — no white smoke, no done deal, and certainly no cheque to the tune of €18m — but, as well as familiar talk of the need for further reform at the FAI, there was no mistaking the sense of accelerated momentum in the increasingly urgent quest to find a solution to the Association’s most immediate financial problems.