Club culture based on hard work

THE best feature of the FAI Carlsberg Cup final on Sunday was the fact that the two finalists, Rockmount of Cork and Bluebell United of Dublin, are clubs in the real sense of the word.

The advance of football in this country is not helped by the disproportionate number of teams to the number of clubs in competition.

In this context a club is an organisation which boasts pavilion facilities and a playing pitch. Better still if the club also boasts a social membership.