League of Ireland: Time for football to do the talking

In 2020 it’s as if ‘vision’ has suddenly become the buzzword for the League of Ireland.

In truth, the debate about the health and well-being —or, more often, otherwise — of the domestic game has been running for decades, going back at least as far as the early 70s when ITV’s ‘The Big Match’ started to make serious inroads into attendances at Milltown, Kilcohan Park, Flower Lodge and all the rest of the holy grounds on a Sunday.