John Riordan: Running the rule over guardians of the game, and no it’s not Fifa
Cards on the table, do you have any idea who oversees the rules of association football?
Apropos of nothing that’s going on this weekend, I was fascinated to discover just the other day that a century or so ago, Ireland's newly free state ran into one of its many teething problems when it tried to assert its footballing independence.
It was part of a larger learning for yours truly that took far too long; never in my nearly 40 years of being aware of the existence of Association Football was I aware of the existence of the International Football Association Board.
