All-Ireland league ‘not practical’

LINFIELD manager David Jeffrey has called for the Setanta Cup competition to be expanded but stopped short of advocating an all-Ireland league.

Speaking in Belfast yesterday at the launch of this year’s Setanta Sports Cup, the Linfield boss spoke highly of the benefits of cross-border competition but suggested that an all-Ireland league was not a practical possibility.

Said Jeffrey: “The facts are that if we had one league then eight places in Europe are suddenly reduced to four because we have one administration.