'I get slaughtered for it in this country': Damien Duff says 'dinosaur mentality' holding back Irish football

Damien Duff has hit out at the "dinosaur mentality" which sees him criticised for training his Shamrock Rovers U15 side five times a week.

'I get slaughtered for it in this country': Damien Duff says 'dinosaur mentality' holding back Irish football

Damien Duff has hit out at the "dinosaur mentality" which sees him criticised for training his Shamrock Rovers U15 side five times a week.

Duff says aspiring footballers in Ireland simply aren't playing enough, neither doing enough sessions each week nor for enough months of the year.

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