Rebels with yet another just cause

WITH Tom Coughlan being edged towards the door and a new consortium ready to enter, Cork City’s future once again hangs in the balance.

Yesterday, another D-Day passed – and yet another looms in the High Court on Monday – but, with the unhappy vista of a Premier Division without Cork City weighing as heavily on minds in Dublin as it does in Cork, there’s a sense that, assuming there is a speedy and successful conclusion to the takeover bid, everything possible will be done to ensure one of the country’s best-supported clubs remains in the top flight next season.

But that will only be a cause for celebration if the new owners can avoid a repeat of the traumas which befell the club over the past season. And, indeed, the season before that. Because it’s not as if we haven’t been here before. Recall that even as City were lifting the FAI Cup in 2007 – just two years after they had won the league – captain Dan Murray was railing against the regime of then owners Arkaga.