Terry Prone: FAI needs a river run right through it to make it fit for purpose

In literary terms, this is a thriller,not a whodunnit. We know whodunnit; John Delaney dunnit. The issue is who let him do it and why, writes Terry Prone

Terry Prone: FAI needs a river run right through it to make it fit for purpose

In literary terms, this is a thriller,not a whodunnit. We know whodunnit; John Delaney dunnit. The issue is who let him do it and why, writes Terry Prone

Say that again about the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), would you? Just go back to the bit where they’re €55m in the hole but, despite that, arrange to pay John Delaney close to half a million to prevent them having to pay him €3m. That bit. The bit after him lending them €100,000. The bit before the auditors deciding the accounts for last year and the year before last might need a bit of delousing.

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