Tony Leen: Stephen Kenny will be given the time to turn us into believers

That things are ‘different’ has been sold as better, as if to indicate that Stephen Kenny is the only way we can move beyond working the channels and second balls.

BOUNCE OF THE BALL: Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny mightn't have had many breaks but ten games without a win is a wretched run of results. 

YOU remember. End of November three years ago. The day it emerged Stephen Kenny, via an oddly circuitous baton handover, was going to be the Ireland manager.

And you said: ‘uh oh, this has disaster written all over it’?