Ball in FAI’s court after Zayed racial abuse claim

HIS 12th goal of the season in earning Derry City a point from a 1-1 draw at Shamrock Rovers on Monday night should have had Eamon Zayed, currently the Airtricity League’s top scorer, in ebullient form.

But instead of leaving the Tallaght Stadium pitch reasonably happy with his 90 minutes football, Zayed went straight to match officials to complain of being racially abused by an opponent on the pitch during the game.

It wasn’t the first time in his career the 27-year-old has suffered such taunts. Last year he wrote on a website blog of the racial abuse he’d suffered in the early part of his career at Bray.