Report makes a meal of inadequacies

The Genesis report is revealed and Caroline O'Doherty assesses the FAI reaction

ALMOST an hour late and looking 10 years older than when they went into their meeting, the grim-faced general secretary and his five officers emerged to meet the microphones.

They were sweating even before the heat of the crowd and the heavy duty glare of the TV cameras got to work on them and they gratefully took to unscrewing the caps off their complimentary bottles of Ballygowan.