Uefa role for FAI chief - Beware own goal

AS expected, the chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland, John Delaney, has been elected to the Uefa executive committee. That makes him only the second Irishman to hold a seat at the top of European football, after Dundalk’s Des Casey in 1994.

His new role is worth €100,000 a year, on top of his reported €360,000 a year FAI salary.

However, as every international sports manager knows, success abroad doesn’t always mean success on home turf. His elevation comes at a time when Ireland’s women’s squad have threatened to withdraw from playing because of a lack of support and resources from the FAI and being forced, among other indignities, to change in airport toilets.