Methinks Stephen Kenny doth protest too much

Stephen Kenny set the headlines dancing this week with his thoughts on the “manufacturing” of penalties and what he termed the “huge disparity” between the number of spot kicks awarded to Dundalk and Cork City over the past year, writes Liam Mackey.

One website described his lengthy polemic as an “astonishing rant” but while you could argue the toss about “astonishing”, a rant it most definitely was not.

There was nothing spontaneous about Kenny’s combustion. These were not heat of the moment words fired off in the immediate aftermath of a match nor had he been led up the interview path by a hack with an eye for a back page splash.