Murray: City chairman should step aside after latest pay delay

DAN MURRAY last night called on Cork City chairman Tom Coughlan to step down after yet another day of financial brinkmanship on Leeside.

Murray and his fellow players only lifting a threat of strike action – which would have scuppered last night’s league victory against Shamrock Rovers – when they finally received their wages at lunchtime.

Even then, Danny Murphy stayed behind in Cork to seek confirmation from his bank that the money owed to him had come through, while the rest of his colleagues set off on the team bus for the journey to Tallaght.