Marc Bircham: I work a lot on gut feeling and I really fancied Waterford job

Blues owner Lee Power has form when it comes to shock managerial appointments

Waterford manager Marc Bircham

Marc Bircham was once Lee Power’s boot-boy, but the shoe is on the other foot now as he has been handed responsibility for saving Waterford’s season.

Blues owner Power has form when it comes to shock managerial appointments, drafting in John Sheridan and Kevin Sheedy over the past year, but the mission handed to ex-QPR and Millwall midfielder Bircham last week is far more onerous.