A week of living dangerously

FAI chief executive John Delaney had earlier met with Giovanni Trapattoni yesterday before conducting this interview in his office in Abbotstown.

And it was from this same room, he said, that he’d called Trapattoni in Milan on Wednesday night to tell him that the FAI Board of Management had backed his retention as senior manager, bringing to a conclusion another tumultuous week in Irish football.

“I rang him from here, sitting here (with Peter Sherrard, the FAI’s Italian-speaking Head of Communications), went through some concerns that the board expressed and asked him would he travel and see me.