Our game still in league of its own

THE best of times and the worst of times — in the League of Ireland it sometimes seems as if you simply can’t have one without the other.

The week that was just in it magnified the good and the bad. First there was all the hype and hoopla preceding the Airtricity XI’s participation, alongside some of the elite names in European football, in the Dublin Super Cup.

But then, before a ball had even been kicked, came a rumpus about payments for players and complaints about the absence of shower facilities in the Irish team’s designated dressing room at the Aviva.