Genesis revelations portray eircom League in crisis

THE eircom League was yesterday portrayed as a sick patient whose only hope of recovery rests with radical surgery.

In a white paper on the league's strategic direction, Genesis the management consultants who produced the post-Saipan blueprint for reform of the FAI say that the senior domestic game is "near to being economically bankrupt, is unsustainable in its current format and incapable of sustaining itself into the future."

Citing this as a "make or break time for the league", Genesis suggest that "tinkering" with the problems will not be enough. Instead they propose what they call "a radical overhaul."