Putting Genesis changes to work a work in progress for FAI

IT WAS the Bible rewritten: from revelation to Genesis, rather than the other way around.

The revelation was the shock of Saipan and Roy Keane’s withering criticism of the organisation — or lack of it — surrounding the senior international team’s preparations for the 2002 World Cup. Genesis was the name of the management consultancy group whose eponymous report into the fiasco went way beyond the still fresh controversy to recommend sweeping changes in the FAI.

Five years on, most of those recommendations have been implemented but the journey from there to here has not been without its bumpy passages.