Logic calls for Kerr as manager

THE FAI should not have to wait for Bryan Hamilton’s short-list to arrive at a replacement manager for Mick McCarthy. If they apply logic to the issue, Brian Kerr should be the next Irish team manager.

That may not be a popular suggestion. There are those in football who are seduced by the sound of a foreign accent.

There are others who are obsessed with the English scene. The fact that England looked to Sweden and appointed Sven Goran Eriksson as their team boss weighs heavily with them. Their attitude seems to be: where England go, we must follow.