The questions John Delaney needs to answer

He just had to be involved, didn’t he? 

Amidst one of the biggest ever scandals to envelop and overthrow in any sporting sphere, there was no way John Delaney couldn’t march the FAI into the midst of it, making global headlines that should have been way beyond our limited means.

Even by the chief executive’s own standards — and this is a man with a penchant for taking up swathes of ink — this was quite a coup. After all, he’s made our association one of the most complicit with the way Fifa went about their business and one of the biggest beneficiaries of their beyond shady ways.