John Fallon: The FAI keep walking into offside traps of their own making

Literally an hour late and a mile away...the association's bungling missteps are costing the sport at a time when appealing for more support should be the easiest sell 

VISION NEEDED: FAI interim chief executive David Courell and FAI director of football Marc Canham.  Pic:INPHO/Morgan Treacy

In an era when the FAI is trumpeting the art of alignment, their tendency to misstep is veering Irish football off-course.

Last Wednesday ought to have been a day for celebrating a doubling of Sports Capital Grants to the sector, yet by lunchtime the governing body were cast adrift, either in firefighting mode or bereft of answers.