FAI facing increased pressure to allow freedom to decide season format

The Leinster Football Association had previously dismissed the ballot as ‘flawed’ and were on the brink of releasing a statement seeking freedom of choice among their leagues to remain in the traditional format of September to May.

PRESSURE: The FAI is facing increasing pressure to ditch its summer season edict after the backlash from key affiliates intensified. Pic: Matt Browne/Sportsfile

The FAI is facing increasing pressure to ditch its summer season edict after the backlash from key affiliates intensified.

Resistance to the directive of synchronising all levels of football with the League of Ireland format of February to October hasn’t abated since it being passed by a narrow 57% margin of the association’s general assembly in December.