Roddy toasts future with a ball O’ Malta

HE’S the latest of the Irish football management wild geese to take wing to exotic foreign climes – and trust Roddy Collins to bid farewell to his home town with a memorable soundbyte.

“If the Faroes is good enough for Brian Kerr, Malta is certainly good enough for Roddy Collins,” says the Dubliner with a laugh. “He’s getting what he deserves – rain 200 days a year. I get sunshine 300 days a year. So someone up there is looking after me and not Brian.”

Based just outside the walls of the Maltese capital Valletta, Floriana is the latest port of call for the larger than life gaffer whose career high to date was doing the double with Bohemians in 2001 before touching down at Carlisle United, Dublin City and Shamrock Rovers.