Vera Pauw: 'There is a person that has targeted to destroy my career'

"This agenda is known, this agenda has been on Twitter, this agenda is with me and I have said that after the World Cup I am going to see if we go to take legal actions."

DEFIANT: Manager Vera Pauw and Katie McCabe during a Republic of Ireland women press conference at Tallaght Stadium. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

It was always likely that allegations levelled against Vera Pauw late last year from her time at Houston Dash would cast a cloud on the Republic of Ireland’s summer.

So it came to pass as the coach and her captain Katie McCabe faced the media before tonight’s friendly against France.