Days of crisis and opportunity for the FAI

In a few reports recently, the ‘E’ in the EGM which the FAI held last Saturday in Dunboyne was taken to mean ‘emergency’ when, according to my profound and comprehensive mastery of company law, ‘extraordinary’ is what it actually stands for.

Not that you’d imagine anyone would be inclined to split hairs in a climate when that excellent Irish euphemism ‘emergency’ seems as good a word as any to describe the situation in which the FAI finds itself, with ‘extraordinary’ not too far behind.