Stephen Kenny rails against football politics as dream job ends in failure

Clarity and decisiveness at last. The Kenny regime, for months hanging on by a thread, was finally decommissioned on Wednesday.

He lost too many matches but Stephen Kenny didn’t lose his dignity in the manner of his farewell from a job whose magnitude ultimately overpowered him.

Nowhere he goes after this – and at 52 employment avenues will become available – replicates the status of being Ireland manager.