Final details key to FAI’s waiting game for manager

Marc Canham has received the backing needed from a new-look board to hatch the final details of the package.

INCOMING? England under-21 head coach Lee Carsley gestures on the touchline.

FAI board members emerged from Tuesday’s four-hour meeting at 9pm into the pitch darkness of the Abbotstown campus but there was some light surrounding their next manager.

This was circled as the summit to ratify that preferred candidate but a few hiccups during negotiations with Lee Carsley distorted the timetable. With a four-year contract under consideration, a broad spectrum of elements must be teased out.